If you live in a big, brightly lit city and you feel like allergy season just never ends, you might be right: New research shows that light pollution prompts plants to shed pollen longer, increases the growth of notoriously allergenic ragweed and makes our bodies more prone to allergic reactions, from runny noses to asthma.
But on the flip side, there are also going to be fewer trees in a city. That is, one might have more pollen in a city with a lot of nighttime lighting than one would relative to a less-lit city, but I doubt that one has more pollen in a city than outside cities.
tal@lemmy.today 14 hours ago
But on the flip side, there are also going to be fewer trees in a city. That is, one might have more pollen in a city with a lot of nighttime lighting than one would relative to a less-lit city, but I doubt that one has more pollen in a city than outside cities.
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 11 hours ago
Well put.
I like how so many studies (or summaries of studies) use these ambiguous “more”.
Every time I go look at details, that “more” nearly always turns out to be meaningless.
LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 9 hours ago
Yeah, fuck these researchers. We should stop studying things cause you don’t like reading headlines.
Just pointless papers saying we should be cautious of things. Let’s ignore all that and put up all the lights and point them wherever we want.
Cities don’t have plants anyway, so what’s the harm!?!