Study says harmful gases linked to heart and lung disease shave nearly two years off a person’s life
And people in north America dismiss this as propaganda and fake news. I like they added the cigarette connection because we are at that stage where no one thinks it’s a issue as they grew up with these stoves in their home.
North America isn’t a monolith. My (very large metro California) county has already passed legislation phasing out all natural gas in new construction, and will gradually start prohibiting sale of gas water heaters and furnaces over the next few years.
Well much of NA is conditioned by religion to accept comfortable lies over uncomfortable truths.
Forcing them to reflect on any deviations could result in them “feeling bad” about themselves, and that cannot be tolerated.
On one hand we don’t and shouldn’t live forever I tire of this whole “___ causes cancer” living literally causes cancer any damage to any cell in your body is potentially causing cancer.
That said fuck the gas and oil industry but I ain’t ditching my gas stove because cancer.
The Guardian is my preferred paper but this article is garbage. Comparing car deaths to early deaths from gas stoves is ridiculous.
““The main uncertainty is whether the risk of dying found with outdoor NO2 from mainly traffic can be applied to indoor NO2 from gas cooking,” said Steffen Loft, an air pollution expert at the University of Copenhagen, who was not involved in the research. “But it is a fair assumption and required for the assessment.””
Industrial and petrochemical pollution is by far the largest cause of health problems when it comes to the general population. The insurance companies are very cagey about releasing rates of deaths from cancer in specific areas and the government certainly doesn’t share that.Hm. I see how early deaths due to gas fumes exposure does not compare well with car crashes occurring at random points during people’s lives. But I don’t think that makes the article, or by extension the study, garbage. (?)
