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impairedimperator@lemmy.zip 2 months agoYes, that is my point. It is completely unreasonable to make gas clean enough to not affect air quality. We do what we reasonably can. And that results in pollution.
Zephyr@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I’m still not fully sold that it appreciably does affect air quality. I think you and I are more aligned than the others on this thread.
impairedimperator@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Yes it is.
Then again everything causes cancer. Aging causes cancer.
Zephyr@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
But cancer like coffee or cancer like ionizing radiation?
impairedimperator@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Cancer like cancer alley in texas, where life expectancy is a full decade lower than the nice neighborhood five miles further.
Gas plant pollution is currently responsible for approximately 21% of asthma cases in the country.