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Re:Inaccurate chart led to unwarranted fears of 5G wireless ... by snowwrestler on Tuesday July 16, 2019 @11:16PM (#20456104)
You’ve got the incentives wrong here: if 5G was harmful, then telecom executives would not roll it out, because they and their families could not avoid it if they did.

This is similar to why smog and particulate air pollution got improved: because car and energy executives have to breathe air too.

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Re:Inaccurate chart led to unwarranted fears of 5G wireless ... by jeremyjh on Wednesday July 17, 2019 @12:10AM (#20456371)
You are right. This is also why the threat of global warming was nipped in the bud by thoughtful energy company executives. Their children have to live on earth too.
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Re:Inaccurate chart led to unwarranted fears of 5G wireless ... by snowwrestler on Wednesday July 17, 2019 @12:11PM (#20461035)
This is a fair shot and a strong counterexample.
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Re:Inaccurate chart led to unwarranted fears of 5G wireless ... by house9-2 on Wednesday July 17, 2019 @12:20AM (#20456428)
> This is similar to why smog and particulate air pollution got improved:

Pretty sure it was do to legislation not the good will of executives. Greed is a hell of a drug.

- https://www.marketplace.org/2014/07/14/la-smog-battle-agains...

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Re:Inaccurate chart led to unwarranted fears of 5G wireless ... by tomohawk on Wednesday July 17, 2019 @04:54AM (#20457669)
Perfect can be the enemy of good.

At least on the east coast, smog was improved considerably when the coal plants were finally allowed to update to newer tech.

The owners had wanted to update their plants for several years, but the EPA was preventing them from doing that unless they met an unrealistic target. So the plants continued to unnecessarily spew pollution because of the standoff. The EPA was finally overruled and the updates got the coal plants to about 95% of what the EPA wanted.

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Re:Inaccurate chart led to unwarranted fears of 5G wireless ... by jazzyjackson on Wednesday July 17, 2019 @04:27AM (#20457558)
I'm 99% sure it wasn't energy executives that lobbied for the clean air act and on second read I feel like you might be being sarcastic
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