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Re:Air Pollution Linked to Increased Mental Health Outpatien... by adrianN on Thursday May 13, 2021 @12:37AM (#27138465)
I'm really curious how many diseases will mysteriously become a lot less common once we stop driving ICE vehicles and perhaps cycle and use public transit more.
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Re:Air Pollution Linked to Increased Mental Health Outpatien... by DrAwdeOccarim on Thursday May 13, 2021 @05:50AM (#27140353)
Tire wear and brake pad dust are also a big 2.5PM problem. Regenerative braking helps a lot, but just moving to non-ICE won't completely solve the problem.
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Re:Air Pollution Linked to Increased Mental Health Outpatien... by adrianN on Thursday May 13, 2021 @10:20AM (#27142373)
Personally I hope for a future where most people don't need cars, or don't need them as often.
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Re:Air Pollution Linked to Increased Mental Health Outpatien... by ArkanExplorer on Thursday May 13, 2021 @05:29AM (#27140220)
And once we stop burning coal... and once we stop coating all our food packaging, clothes and furniture in PFAS... and once we ban all single-use plastics...

These kind of tweaks to our society would not require a lot of technical effort - we already have all the alternatives - we just the popular rage against their use and the political will to ban them.

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Re:Air Pollution Linked to Increased Mental Health Outpatien... by dijit on Thursday May 13, 2021 @05:32AM (#27140246)
BPA plastics are linked with a decrease in testosterone which lasts multiple generations.

BPA plastics are found nearly everywhere.

https://rbej.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12958-018-0...

But the GPs comment is still correct. I wonder what will change with the removal of ICE vehicles from public roads.

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Re:Air Pollution Linked to Increased Mental Health Outpatien... by goodpoint on Thursday May 13, 2021 @06:25AM (#27140529)
From the paper:

"It has been estimated that levels of conjugates of BPA in urine are above safety thresholds in 90% of individuals tested in several population studies"

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