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Air Pollution Harm To Unborn Babies May Be Global Health Catastrophe, Warn Doctors (theguardian.com)
Air pollution significantly increases the risk of low birth weight in babies, leading to lifelong damage to health, according to a large new study. From a report: The research was conducted in London, UK, but its implications for many millions of women in cities around the world with far worse air pollution are "something approaching a public health catastrophe," the doctors involved said. Globally, two billion children -- 90% of all children -- are exposed to air pollution above World Health Organization guidelines. A Unicef study also published on Wednesday found that 17 million babies suffer air six times more toxic than the guidelines. The team said that there are no reliable ways for women in cities to avoid chronic exposure to air pollution during pregnancy and called for urgent action from governments to cut pollution from vehicles and other sources.
Something something denial, lizard people!
I think this is just Mother Nature helping clean the pool a bit, with indirect help.
Too many people.....not a good place to make more.
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If it wasn't this it would be something else. The realities that we've over procreated and are in the process of wrecking our planet like a runaway viral infection will catch up with us one way or another. People should have fewer babies, period. And if they don't, then this is what happens, and I have no fucking sympathy that they cannot overcome their biological imperative.
It's not an "unborn baby", it's a "choice".
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As farmland generally requires sunlight, it makes for ideal solar generation real estate. Subsidizing the initial deployment and operation of solar installations would displace our coal, oil, and natural gas electrical generation capacity with clean energy. The American taxpayer currently pays billions of dollars every year for the Conservational Reserve Program; this money returns nothing except the promise of land in reserve. The transition to solar operation will similarly preserve the land while producing clean energy at discount subsidy rates, allowing the American people to recover some of that tax cost.
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If it were truly a catastrophe, there should be many large cities where whole generations should have perished. In the US, prior to EPA reforms, many cities had far worse air pollution, yet the maternity wards in their hospitals weren't empty.
with 2 billion mutations, surely we'll evolve an immunity? well, homo extremophilus will anyway...
The air has never been cleaner. 50 years ago there were noxious fuming automobiles and trucks. Factories spewed coal black smoke into the hazy gray skies. Half the population puffed on cigars and cigarettes, indoors, outdoors, even on airplanes, and in other public places -- even elevators. At least in America the problem has been solved.
So what if China doesn't care. That's their right. It's their country.
That babies born to mother's exposed to air pollution are smaller, but their just as healthy are the other babies. And some women might want a smaller baby.
Let me know if anyone gets the reference.
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polymer polymore polyman... a biological nightmare concocted for us by the blue tie wearing psychopaths of the perfect balance clubbing... cease fire stand down... in the moms we trust,, thanks again for watching/caring.. no heart no spirit no life,,, what a creepy recipe...
Tried to end fossil fuels by scaring folks on global warming. Didn't work. So now we must "think of the children!"
War on fossil fuels never ends.
Or, may be not.
I don't give a shit what happens once the baby is born. Let the free market decides if it lives or dies.
My faith in science is shattered at this point. Scientists these days are no more than political hacks, furthering their leftest agenda. Sad state of affairs. Science is over. There is no truth. The only truth is that manufactured by Liberals out of whole cloth. It's ironic that the folks who claim the higher ground of 'science' are nothing but Luddites who would have us return to caves.
Problem solved, right ladies?
Stop carrying the babies in the mothers. Instead, remove the fertilized egg and place in an incubator that has a purified air source. What could go wrong. Technology solves all.
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If humans coming out of this environment and are somewhat handicapped, they may be less critical, having to deal with their own issues.
And - does anyone think about fixing it - just look at the current power structure and what the priorities there are.. In particular, a retard on top...
why bother with care for children when we can spend ten times as much on them when they get old?
air pollution is a potentially huge revenue source for manufacturers of medical equipment
For reference, what would be the WHO measurement of sitting around a campfire and occasionally being directly in the smoke for 5% of the day? I imagine most children who were ever born were raised in a situation similar to this (or better yet raised in a shelter with open fire and burning candles for most of the night). Kind of like sodium intake before the invention of refrigeration - what was that average?
imagine a soft, buttery paw gently pressing down onto a sleeping soldier's face. forever.
I keep wondering when I read things like this: is it really so much worse than it was in the 1970s? OK, some places where economic growth has exploded recently may be much much dirtier now than they were then. But I went to London a few times in the late 1980s, and back then the city stank of exhaust fumes. Nowadays that is not the case anymore. I live in the Netherlands and I saw the big rivers getting cleaner, sensitive animals like salmon and beaver being reintroduced successfully, and the air in Amsterdam definitely improved. So I wonder: how come we hear more and more warnings like this? I can think of a few causes: fearmongery, increased knowledge about the impact of exhaust gases on your health, or maybe the planet as a whole really got a lot dirtier. But what is it really?
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No such thing, they're just disposable discardable spare-parts "fetuses". Right?
infant mortality has been dropping for the last century. I don't think you understand what real poverty is like. We've sort of forgot because a) the War on Poverty did and continues to do a lot and b) what we couldn't eliminate we moved to China, Mexico and India. Yes, we've mostly cleaned the air here, but in large parts of China, India and some of Mexico it's as bad as it was in the 20s here.
Also even before the EPA was founded there was work being done to clean up the air. Especially in the 30s-60s before private jets were common and telecoms made it so the rich could manage their holdings from afar.
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In the past year, Iâ(TM)ve read stories about while towns in China getting cancer due to pollution, toxic foam floating around in India, and serious birth defects in humans and animals in both of those countries. The problem is orders of magnitude larger there than in the US. Because of this, China and India are great test beds for human evolution because those are the places with the highest levels of environmental pressures. We could see species adaptions there that donâ(TM)t exist anywhere else.
I mean the pollution is something that we know exists. In cases these doctors discuss the pollution is in fact so bad that one can see its undesirable effects on oneself which for any reasonable individual would mean to move away at least for pregnancy or avoid pregnancy in the first place. I agree avoiding pollution may not be within the reach of people but condoms should be. We try hard to get pollution in already relatively clean western cities down whereas the actual problem is overpopulation elsewhere.
Or is the current tendency to coddle kids in cotton batting, never letting them run free outside and play un-supervised that is causing atrophied kids. Or maybe it's the trend to city living in more and more cramped un-natural environments. Or maybe it's just the trend to spending more time inside, where the air is much less healthy than even outdoor city air. Or maybe it's the trend to feeding them more over-procssed factory-supermarket junk masquerading as food because after working multiple jobs the parents don't have time ( and were never taught in school how ) to prepare nuticious meals.
You live and learn, or you don't learn much.
Got to be fake news, since the overlords with stock in Planned Parenthood have informed us that the unborn aren't people, and thus, can't be harmed by pollution or abortion.
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You mean fetuses that are not alive, and there for whos existence does not matter.
So, buy a good and decent air cleaner (with lots of activated carbon) for your home and for the baby stroller or carrier buy the belt mounted part of the air cleaner the welders use with electric motors and filters and put the flexible hose to the baby's carrier compartment. Something like this 3M Breathe Easy Turbo Belt-Mounted Powered Air Purifying Respirator