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No that isn't it. Else all animals would have at least similar life spans. A dog doesn't die at 8 from cancer because of eating and breathing pollutants. And ne
by rowanG077 2y ago
No that isn't it. Else all animals would have at least similar life spans. A dog doesn't die at 8 from cancer because of eating and breathing pollutants. And neither does a human at 80. The only thing most pollutants do is make it worse.
The underlying cause is our body not being able to maintain itself over even short timescales, with or without pollutants.
- digging 2y agoAll animals have different responses to toxins, pollutants, cancer growth, etc. We're kind of actually at a "sweet spot" for cancer rates, big enough to get a lot of cancer, not so big that we need extraordinary cancer resistance like whales.