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Strange, that same observation and the corresponding 3 million worldwide deaths yearly didn’t change our attitude towards fossil fuel combustion and its air pol
by unglaublich 3y ago
Strange, that same observation and the corresponding 3 million worldwide deaths yearly didn’t change our attitude towards fossil fuel combustion and its air pollution.
Even more remarkable, the fact that nuclear is kept out of the hands of corporations, but the oil industry is not might have been the cause that the latter put so much money and effort into the nuclear fear campaign.
More people die of fossil fuel air pollution per year than have died of COVID. We might have saved more lives during the lock down by the reduction in pollution than the actual virus containment.
- AlexandrB 3y ago> Strange, that same observation and the corresponding 3 million worldwide deaths yearly didn’t change our attitude towards fossil fuel combustion and its air pollution. Stranger still, alcohol is still legal even though there's "no safe level of consumption"[1]. [1] https://www.who.int/europe/news/item/04-01-2023-no-level-of-alcohol-consumption-is-safe-for-our-health https://www.who.int/europe/news/item/04-01-2023-no-level-of-...
- HPsquared 3y agoEvery activity carries risk of one form or another.
- oblio 3y agoTrue, but as we remove various forms of risks and prolong life, for sure there will be a point in the future where our 200-year-living descendants will say: why were those idiots actively, massively and collectively poisoning themselves?
- stevejb 3y agoProbably not. They’ll understand it was the best we could do at the time, just like we understand that about our ancestors.
- oblio 3y agoIn a world where a decent amount of people are teetotalers, your explanation strikes me as optimistic :-)
- stevejb 3y agoI don't understand. Are you saying it is good that people are teetotalers and that is an example of doing your best?
- oblio 3y agoYeah, since there are multiple studies that show that alcohol in any quantity is bad for you. People are (slowly) poisoning themselves as replacement for therapy or lack of a support network.
- admax88qqq 3y agoIt's different when someone wants to put something into their own body vs someone wants to put something into the air and water we all share. Stop pretending it isn't.
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- akira2501 3y ago> 3 million worldwide deaths yearly Is this a count or a statistic?
- unglaublich 3y agohttps://www.hsph.harvard.edu/c-change/news/fossil-fuel-air-pollution-responsible-for-1-in-5-deaths-worldwide/ https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/c-change/news/fossil-fuel-air-p...
- akira2501 3y agoSo, a retrospective estimate, based on a community maintained model, constructed from historical satellite data, that relies on too many other parameters to be taken seriously in this (or any other) context. Meanwhile, an actual control experiment could easily be conducted anywhere on earth, and is never even approached by these "model only scientists."
- asdff 3y ago>the fact that nuclear is kept out of the hands of corporations American nuclear plants are ran by corporations.