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Farming accounts for 16 percent of all US pollution and many many premature deaths do to the pollution it causes


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Just farming corn in the US cause $39 billion in health related expenses from pollution and over 4000 premature deaths

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/04/01/708818581/growing-corn-is-a-major-contributor-to-air-pollution-study-finds

Hill estimates that air quality-related health damages cost $39 billion annually. The top five corn-producing states — Iowa, Illinois, Nebraska, Minnesota and Indiana — bore 54 percent of the deaths associated with air pollution caused by corn production.

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All pollution? :lmao:

account for about 16 percent of all human-caused air pollution of a type called PM2.5.

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25 minutes ago, hayward said:

Ah yes those smog-filled rural skies of Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, and Minnesotta.  :lol:

Ummm, it’s  not smog that is doing the damage. :lol:

You don’t believe things in this study?

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41 minutes ago, Snoslinger said:

Ummm, it’s  not smog that is doing the damage. :lol:

You don’t believe things in this study?

Not the premature "deaths" estimate.  

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8 hours ago, Highmark said:

All pollution? :lmao:

account for about 16 percent of all human-caused air pollution of a type called PM2.5.

It’s neat!

1 hour ago, hayward said:

Ah yes those smog-filled rural skies of Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, and Minnesotta.  :lol:

People in the Midwest are roooning the new librul America!!!!!

Toxic cornulinity!!!

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Models.   When's the last climate model that was correct.  :lol:  

 

The researchers fed the model with publicly available data on corn yields and manure and synthetic fertilizer usage from corn-producing counties in the U.S., giving them an estimate of the total emissions caused by corn production.

 

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