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>Saying VW directly shortened the lifespan of millions is just Hyperbole. Why? What's the difference when the outcome is the same? Your malicious actions still
by Rinzler89 2y ago
>Saying VW directly shortened the lifespan of millions is just Hyperbole.
Why? What's the difference when the outcome is the same? Your malicious actions still lead to deaths.
"I didn't directly murder someone, I just didn't clean the radioactive residue form his house because that would have cost me time and money so now he's dead."
- alt227 2y agoIts not the same though is it. In your example there can be a cause of death identified as radiation poising which can be attributed to the residue in his house. With the VW example, you cant quantify it at all. How much has it shortened peoples lives? 2 seconds? 10 years? nanoseconds? Its not a direct correlation, theres no graph you can plot with emissions against length of life, and so claiming that there is a direct correlation is Hyperbole.
- Dylan16807 2y ago> With the VW example, you cant quantify it at all. How much has it shortened peoples lives? 2 seconds? 10 years? nanoseconds? Its not a direct correlation, theres no graph you can plot with emissions against length of life https://theicct.org/sites/default/files/NOx%20Health%20Fact%20Sheet%20global%202post.pdf https://theicct.org/sites/default/files/NOx%20Health%20Fact%... > According to new research published in Nature, NOX from diesel vehicle exhaust was linked to 107,600 premature deaths worldwide in 2015. Of these, ~38,000 are attributable to excess NOX emissions. Sounds like the graphs do exist. (Obviously VW is only a fraction of those specific numbers.)
- alt227 2y agoI really tried to give it a go, and accept what this link is trying to say. But when you read it, literally everything used in creating those numbers is an estimation. Ther are no measurements whatsoever.