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Where does air pollution come from?

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233 points kamaraju | 1 comments | 02 Apr 25 04:25 UTC | HN request time: 0.201s | source
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johnthesecure ◴[02 Apr 25 05:54 UTC] No.43553996[source]▶
It's interesting to see the number of deaths caused by pollution. But everyone will die of something. Could it be that many of those people whose death was caused by pollution may have been frail and close to death anyway? I wonder if it would be more useful to talk about quality-life-years (QUALYs) lost as a result of pollution. Probably much harder to get that data though.
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DeathArrow ◴[02 Apr 25 06:08 UTC] No.43554051[source]▶
>It's interesting to see the number of deaths caused by pollution. But everyone will die of something.

People can die because they don't have access to energy or agricultural products.

I wonder what would be the word population now had we not used fire, coal oil, haf we not grew rice and cereals, had we not raised cows and sheep.

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1. Teever ◴[02 Apr 25 06:42 UTC] No.43554208[source]▶
A more important question is what would the world look like if we didn't waste resources[0].

Some would consider raising cows and sheep to be bad idea too, given how inefficient it is in terms of input resources for output calories -- not to mention it has very detrimental effects on ecosystems.

[0] https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/27/climate/un-food-waste-one-bil...