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by wcerfgba 1378 days ago
Has a dystopian ring to it, "we don't need to clear up the nuclear waste, just take your thyroid pills and everything will be fine"
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Air pollution causes not only cancer but a variety of health issues including things like asthma or even behavioral impacts. Small particulate matter can get into the blood circulation and then stay in your body with all kinds of long term effects. So even if this reduces the cancer risk, it probably still causes other issues and reducing air pollution is most likely still the ultimate solution.
Very similar to "we don't need to make quality of life higher, just take your depression pills and everything will be fine".
"We don't/can't clean up the PFAS/lead, here's some bottled water"
Live in the pod, eat the 3-headed radioactive bugs ...