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The World's Fastest-Growing Cause of Death Is Pollution From Car Exhaust
pigrabbitbear writes "Cars, once again, are killing us. They're killing us in crashes and accidents, yes, and they're encouraging us to grow obese and then killing us a little more slowly. But, more than ever before, they're killing us with their pollution. Particulate air pollution, along with obesity, is now the two fastest-growing causes of death in the world, according to a new study published in the Lancet. The study found that in 2010, 3.2 million people died prematurely from the air pollution – particularly the sooty kind that spews from the exhaust pipes of cars and trucks. And of those untimely deaths, 2.1 million were in Asia, where a boom in car use has choked the streets of India and China's fast-expanding cities with smog."
More congestion = more pollution, so are the greens always the ones fighting improved roadworks that will relieve congestion? Seriously, the more clogged traffic is, the worse your mileage, the more wear and tear on your car, the more pollution, the more time you waste, the more accidents and more people are hurt and killed in accidents. Free flowing consistent traffic is always safer, less polluting, faster, less wasteful from early wear and tear on the car and so on....
What possible real reason can there be to fight things like expanding roadworks from 2 lanes to 3 lanes other than a desire to tell other people how to live their lives. If your entire argument depends on trying to make something suck for someone else to gain converts, chances are pretty good your on the wrong side of the argument.
I promise I might take you a little more seriously if you can stop hating people just because of their lifestyle.
As an American, I'll stop having issues with fat Americans when fat Americans stop causing MY health insurance rates to go up.
If you want news from today, you have to come back tomorrow.
I take it that you are overweight? You are aware that you can do something about that? Wouldn't you like to be able to actually SEE your penis again?
Lay off the Cheetos and Dew, Mr. Overweight Neck-Beard.
YOU are the main reason that healthy Americans like me pay through the nose for good health care. Pigs like you drive the rates up for everyone.
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