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Scented products cause indoor air pollution on par with car exhaust

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371 points clumsysmurf | 1 comments | 19 Feb 25 23:53 UTC | HN request time: 0.222s | source
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shellfishgene ◴[20 Feb 25 10:20 UTC] No.43113076[source]▶
"A forest is a pristine environment..." Hmm, is that really so? The forest air is also full of pollen, fungal spores, viruses and bacteria, all kinds of volatile organic molecules and so on. The terpenes mentioned as problematic come from conifers after all.
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lm28469 ◴[20 Feb 25 14:52 UTC] No.43115372[source]▶
Things we had hundreds millions of years to evolve with and adapt too... now we have brake pad dust and haribo strawberry flavored candles
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1. jjk166 ◴[20 Feb 25 16:51 UTC] No.43117036[source]▶
There weren't many North American conifers on the African savannah when humans were evolving, and our ancestors' reproductive success was not generally affected by air quality. We haven't evolved immunity to things like volcanic gasses which have been around forever. Many plants deliberately evolved to produce toxins. A few of these we find delicious specifically because we did not co-evolve with those plants. Natural = safe is a bad heuristic.