<story><title>Air pollution cancer breakthrough will rewrite the rules</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/health-62797777</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gniv</author><text>&amp;gt; 99% of people in the world live in places where air pollution exceeds the WHO guidelines&lt;p&gt;Wow. I knew cities are polluted but this is extreme. In 50 years we might look at  pollution as we look at smoking now, a terrible self-inflicted wound on civilization that took way too long to acknowledge and fix.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AtlasBarfed</author><text>This is why BEV adoption should result in a very large drop in cancer and other health problems.&lt;p&gt;EV drivers have told me after a bit of ownership, they see ICE cars as thoroughly filthy, loud, dirty, inefficient, and almost rude.&lt;p&gt;Our addiction to being able to drive places with but a mere tap of a gas pedal has blinded us to the devil&amp;#x27;s bargain of the ICE. I honestly think that a great deal of the instinctive hatred of cyclists is tied to how deeply the power and convenience and freedom of driving has ensconced itself into our subconscious.&lt;p&gt;We shall see, I guess.</text></comment>
<story><title>Air pollution cancer breakthrough will rewrite the rules</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/health-62797777</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gniv</author><text>&amp;gt; 99% of people in the world live in places where air pollution exceeds the WHO guidelines&lt;p&gt;Wow. I knew cities are polluted but this is extreme. In 50 years we might look at  pollution as we look at smoking now, a terrible self-inflicted wound on civilization that took way too long to acknowledge and fix.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ryukafalz</author><text>It’s the suburbs too. Not hard to see why: we’ve reshaped our society around cars, and they’re spewing pollutants into the air everywhere.&lt;p&gt;EVs won’t necessarily improve this, by the way: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.sciencedirect.com&amp;#x2F;science&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;abs&amp;#x2F;pii&amp;#x2F;S1352231020306208&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.sciencedirect.com&amp;#x2F;science&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;abs&amp;#x2F;pii&amp;#x2F;S13522...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; The outcome is critically dependent upon the extent of regenerative braking relative to use of friction brakes on the BEV, but overall there will be only modest changes to the total local emissions of particles from a passenger car built to current emissions standards.</text></comment>