Comment on Sean Connery in 1964 (on the set of Goldfinger) and Thomas Brodie-Sangster in 2024. Both age 34 in their respective photos.

Ariselas@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Eq0@literature.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Is this really it? I thought the non smoking would be compensated by the increased pollution of everything

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  • Ariselas@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m sure sun exposure also plays a role, everyone wears SPF 8000 sunblock now, while they were putting on tanning oil back in the 50s, 60s, and 70s

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    • BallShapedMan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Image

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      • CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I’ll buy that for a dollar!

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    • dalekcaan@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Really? I thought sunblock was pretty over the top in Connery’s day.

      An image of a woman coated in gold from the James Bond film Goldfinger, which started Connery as Bond

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      • Ariselas@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        now that’s a golden tan!

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  • undree@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Air pollution was worse in the last century ourworldindata.org/outdoor-air-pollution

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    • Eq0@literature.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Thanks for the informative response. I’m a bit confused by the graphs given, that track emissions and not air quality itself. Would you know why?

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      • EnsignRoApologist@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        AQI is highly variable by locale and hour. It averages out in the end, but measuring regional and global emissions is a better way to compare disparate time periods, except for areas at the extremes.

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  • someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Pollution was worse back then, look up smog in the 70s. We’ve introduced catalytic converters, emissions standards, etc. Most people now question why we need clean air laws because we have clean air, much like people thinking we don’t need vaccines because those diseases aren’t around.

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    • snooggums@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Which is funny because those diseases are still around aince they flare up when people stop taking vaccines.

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  • Ledivin@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There’s significantly less air and water pollution now than the past, with the only exception being microplastics. We haven’t found many short-term impacts from that yet, though

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    • Eq0@literature.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I was thinking of PFAS, pesticides, ultra-processed food and such

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      • StellarExtract@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Considering back then they had asbestos, lead, etc, we’re still a lot better off now, I think. A lot of our stuff now is “this increases risk” whreas a lot of stuff then was “this causes literal organ failure”.

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    • Hanrahan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      theguardian.com/…/un-expert-human-rights-climate-…

      An estimated 7 million people worldwide die prematurely from air pollution each year.

      In his final interview before handing over the special rapporteur mandate, Boyd said he struggles to makes sense of the world’s collective indifference to the suffering being caused by preventable environmental harms.

      I can’t get people to bat an eyelash. It’s like there’s something wrong with our brains that we can’t understand just how grave this situation is.”

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  • boatswain@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Pollution was probably another contributing factor; I’d be surprised if it wasn’t a lot worse in the 60s than it is now: a lot of environmental controls got put in place in the intervening decades. Remember, there was leaded gasoline everywhere, and acid rain scares and the ozone layer depletion in the 80s.

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  • zewm@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s a combination of many factors over time. Diet, sun exposure, smoking. Lots of things we have more information about now than we did then. Medicine is better, genetics, etc.

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  • Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Oh ya, because removing lead from the air made it so much worse. /s

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