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Heavy industrial toxic zones are allowed all over the USA in populated areas because it's profitable. https://www.propublica.org/article/how-we-created-the-mos
by ck2 3y ago
Heavy industrial toxic zones are allowed all over the USA in populated areas because it's profitable.
https://www.propublica.org/article/how-we-created-the-most-detailed-map-ever-of-cancer-causing-industrial-air-pollution https://www.propublica.org/article/how-we-created-the-most-d...
There are hundreds of thousands of trucks in the USA alone with emissions bypass chips or devices that are rolling carcinogen generators on all the roads.
Leaded fuels is still sprayed everywhere for decades by propeller aircraft, across entire neighborhoods near airports in the USA
Fracking with toxic chemicals is done in or near populations.
Socializing the cost of cancer while privatizing profit is all what the USA is about.
Can't say "we didn't know" anymore. We know, we just don't care as long as it's not themselves.
- cscurmudgeon 3y agoIs there any country that does better? Nope, Europe doesn’t count when stats say otherwise. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_cancer_rate https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_cancer_...
- fwip 3y agoBy your link, nearly every European country, save Ireland and Hungary, have lower rates of cancer. America is the 5th worst out of 50, so 90% of the countries on the list are doing better than America.
- cscurmudgeon 3y agoMost European countries are close to the US and are probably not statistically different. Here is a more informative source: https://www.wcrf.org/cancer-trends/global-cancer-data-by-country/ https://www.wcrf.org/cancer-trends/global-cancer-data-by-cou... The highest cancer rate for men and women combined was in Denmark at 334.9 people per 100,000. The age-standardised rate was at least 300 per 100,000 for 10 countries: Denmark, Ireland, Belgium, Hungary, France, The Netherlands, Australia, Norway, France (New Caledonia) and Slovenia.