Jenny Z., This Puzzle Piece

"The findings showed 4,105 participants (15%) developed dementia during the follow-up period. Compared with those who did not develop dementia, participants with incident dementia were more likely to be non-white, have less formal education, less wealth, and higher surrounding PM2.5 levels at their address. While agriculture and open fires had the strongest air pollution-dementia associations, road traffic, non-road traffic, and coal combustion for energy production and industry were also associated with incident dementia."

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[email protected] - **Fossil fuels make you stupid...**

NIH research characterizes, more clearly than before, the association between fossil fuel use and dementia. The problem is the PM2.5 particles that are a significant portion of the pollution that results from burning fossil fuels.

When you drive a gas-powered vehicle, you're not only causing global warming, you're also poisoning everyone -- including yourself.

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/air-pollution-different-emission-sources-associated-incident-dementia

Air pollution from different emission sources is associated with incident dementia

NIH-funded study suggests reducing exposure to airborne particulates may decrease dementia risk.

National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Aug 14, 2023 at 9:22pmWeb
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The people who are actively targeted by oppressive policies are much more likely to live in unhealthy, unsafe communities.

Why do societies actively target defined groups of people for poor living conditions?

The answer begins with greed, and then it's just strategy and tactics. Greedy people covet exclusive privileges in life, and by whittling down the number of people who are candidates for exclusive privileges, exclusivity for the most greedy becomes more attainable.

In the US, due to the diverse migration to the country since (and prior to) it's inception, ancestral origins have proved a convenient basis for the divisions that allow for disenfranchisement of large groups of people.

This same basic strategy is used globally, but other defining characteristics, such as religion or culture, may be more convenient for the most greedy people in other parts of the world.

Greed is the root of evil. Greed is a human trait that will always be with us.

#greedwreckscapitalism
#regulatecapitalism