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Zephyr@sh.itjust.works 11 hours agoI’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 11 hours ago
Yes it is.
Then again everything causes cancer. Aging causes cancer.
Zephyr@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
But cancer like coffee or cancer like ionizing radiation?
impairedimperator@lemmy.zip 7 hours 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.
Zephyr@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
To keep on topic what I could find was 17% of all lung cancer cases in heavily impacted regional studies. That is communities within a 2- to 5-kilometer. It’s fairly insignificant or inconclusive for people further outside that range. Seems like there just needs to be a buffer zone around said gas fired powerplants which honestly I think everyone wants. I can’t imagine home prices near any form of powerplant or data center are amazing.