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Traffic pollution contributes to more than 1,800 premature deaths per year, study estimates (www.abc.net.au)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by vividspecter@aussie.zone to c/australia@aussie.zone

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And the study itself:

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2025.122519

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[–] FreedomAdvocate 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Jesus christ I started reading the study - they didn’t examine any deaths or sicknesses or anything, they literally just took Australia measure of these pollutants and used that to come up with the number of deaths based on what other countries and studies have said their numbers were hahahahaha

Throw this “study” in the bin where it belongs. It didn’t try to ascertain if any deaths can actually be attributed to car exhaust gases etc, they just say it’s fact and did some basic maths to get a number. The state of academics is a disgrace.