Re:I measured the pollution from my gas stove
by ryukafalz on Monday January 09, 2023 @06:09PM
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> 37000 people die each year in vehicular accidents, but somehow people think there's a benefit to using cars, and to use them without making them 3X as expensive just to save perhaps half of those lives.
And each of those crashes is a tragedy. Surely you know that there are also efforts to make streets safer, and that other countries have been vastly more successful at it than the US?
Traffic crashes were until very recently the leading cause of death among young people, and are still #2. We shouldn't just overlook that either!
Re:I measured the pollution from my gas stove
by ethanbond on Monday January 09, 2023 @05:59PM
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> if you want to convince us the harm is too great, then quantify it for our judgement.
That's literally what TFA does. Dispute the data or the argument if you want. "This site looks like it doesn't like fossil fuels" is not disputing the data. It's "I suspect there's another side that's not represented [duh] and I therefore will dismiss this information out of hand." It's a terrible heuristic to get anywhere.
37000 people die each year in vehicular accidents, but somehow people think there's a benefit to using cars, and to use them without making them 3X as expensive just to save perhaps half of those lives.
So too do we continue to use gas appliances because they're relatively cheap, effective, and resilient, and if you want to convince us the harm is too great, then quantify it for our judgement.