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• Zephyr@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  But cancer like coffee or cancer like ionizing radiation?

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  • impairedimperator@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • Zephyr@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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      • CorrectAlias@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Just fyi, asthma is not “off topic”. Natural gas is one of the leading causes. I tell you this as someone who now has life long asthma, likely because of my family’s natural gas stove.

        A “buffer zone” doesn’t do anything when an inversion happens, because an inversion traps the bad air at lower levels (you know, where people breathe) and the bad air spreads much further because of that.

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