No. Both other causes and cancer are going up, because we’ve more toxic shit everywhere, and less healthcare than ever.
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LodeMike@lemmy.today 3 days agoCancer rates are going up because people aren’t dying from other things first
bedwyr@piefed.ca 3 days ago
Eheran@lemmy.world 1 day ago
More toxic than 40 years ago? Yeah no, not even nearly. They also did not have more healthcare.
bedwyr@piefed.ca 1 day ago
It’s not lead now, it’s other stuff. It’s worse now, or soon will be. PFAS alone is an unimagineable nightmare.
They combine industrial waste with sewage and spread it on fields for ffertilizer. They stopped enforcing the runoff laws that prevented algae blooms from like back 50 years back. To say nothing of the extra round-up.
For instance, in the last 30 years, insect populations worldwide are down 90%. That is new, and even though we don’t have rivers catching fire at the moment, or lead in the air, it’s worse in many ways.
I take your point though, but the progresses made are being reversed as we speak.
Bristlecone@lemmy.world 3 days ago
You’re wrong, its also going up in young people