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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: 0.203s | 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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1. imtringued ◴[02 Apr 25 09:06 UTC] No.43554884[source]▶
As you said, everyone will die of something and those who die are close to death. Therefore you can now justify abandoning any treatment that increases lifespans. The new baseline lifespan is shorter, therefore everyone is closer to death, let's abandon the next treatment.