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America Is Backsliding Toward Its Most Polluted Era

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150 points pmags | 1 comments | 10 Apr 25 12:48 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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JKCalhoun ◴[10 Apr 25 13:20 UTC] No.43643507[source]▶
> projected would, in that year alone, prevent up to 4,500 premature deaths and 800,000 cases of asthma, reaping up to $46 billion in health benefits.

That's the even crazier part - the savings in health benefits. Not sure what it takes to motivate even the most selfish out there.

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1. chewbacha ◴[10 Apr 25 13:29 UTC] No.43643581[source]▶
Take away the welfare and stop paying taxes. Then there’s no health benefits to spend on.

Pretty sure this is why they are dismantling Medicaid and Medicare now.

It’s all aligned to put us back into 1890s when billionaires ran everything and people lived in tenement housing.