“Scott Ogletree, a lecturer in landscape and wellbeing at the University of Edinburgh and the report’s lead author, said that green spaces had little impact on

“Scott Ogletree, a lecturer in landscape and wellbeing at the University of Edinburgh and the report’s lead author, said that green spaces had little impact on telomere length when participants lived in low-income or segregated areas, raising new questions about the relationship between human health and the environment. “It does seem that the neighborhood context” of pollution and segregation “might be washing out any benefit we see from the green space on this particular aspect of people’s health.” Or, more likely, the entire study is a fine example of p-hacking. Related, whatever effect urban green spaces may or may not have on lifespan, it’s uncontroversial that — for many reasons — people in urban area live longer than those in greener rural areas: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/people-in-rural-areas-die-at-higher-rates-than-those-in-urban-areas/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/people-in-rural-a... Urban green spaces do add to quality of life, which is reason enough to justify them.