“Instead, she tries to empower herself. She avoids walking through exhaust, doesn’t use pesticides, buys organic foods, shuts her windows to keep air pollution outdoors and uses air filters in her home.”
Does it seem to anyone else like maybe this woman should move somewhere else, instead of trying to isolate her house from its immediate surroundings?
As for the study, isn’t it likely that IQs of children from different parts of a city are likely to be shaped by many factors other than just air quality?
A lot of household items are made from chemicals that off-gas. Shutting your home might actually make the indoor air quality WORSE than if you opened windows to ventilate.
No kidding especially when you consider that in the Northern Hemisphere because of prevailing winds the poor half of the city lives on the east side which is where the pollution blows, and it's been shown many times that IQ correlates well with income.
Why are people voting this up? This article makes no mention of a control group and many factors can contribute to low iq. I am basically echoing several comments made on the article itself because they are valid.
They are called "fossil fuels" to distinguish whether their combustion increases the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere (on timescales less than tens of thousands of years). That's a pretty important distinction to keep track of...
Yeah. About the only thing you don't get from ethanol compared to hydrocarbons is... volatile hydrocarbons, and of course (unsunk) CO2.
The combustion outputs are quantitatively different, but the same compounds are present. Whether ethanol produces cleaner combustion products compared to gasoline is debated in the literature.
Of course, when it comes to particulates, things like diesel or bunker oil are much worse than either gasoline or ethanol.
Does it seem to anyone else like maybe this woman should move somewhere else, instead of trying to isolate her house from its immediate surroundings?
As for the study, isn’t it likely that IQs of children from different parts of a city are likely to be shaped by many factors other than just air quality?