Less NOx and SOx = more tots?
Jun 03, 2009
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I love The Economist. I guess the UK has to have one tame level-headed publication considering its outrageous tabloids and magazines. The latest little tidbit I ran into on their web site quoted an MIT professor’s study that basically says
Not that a recession is good . . . it means promising economic initiatives such as renewable energy projects get canned . . . and hospitals and health services get cut . . . but then again, those kids who survive will contribute to our economy and culture in a generation’s time . . .
. . . a drop in pollution equals a drop in infant deaths. After the USA’s peak in manufacturing back in 1979, and at times when economic output dropped, it’s quite simple . . . less pollutants in the air means more kids are running around in it. 