Diabetes is in the air to the pretense quote of Annette Peters at the beginning of the article: "Whether the disease becomes manifest and when this occurs is not only due to lifestyle or genetic factors, but also due to traffic-related air pollution". In summation her studies on over 3,000 different individuals concluded to the fact that air pollution tends to affect those who are "pre diabetic" more-so, since the classification of these individuals relates to their impaired glucose metabolism. Supposedly the main finding of Annette Peters is the idea that people with increases in blood marker levels combined with higher air pollutant concentrations results in a much higher rick for type 2 diabetes.
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Another example of how Nuclear Power alternatives are shut down by protesters who don't fully understand Nuclear Energy. In this article Chris Buckley quotes some Chinese residents of Lianyungang on their opinions, which evidently are in strong opposition to the building of the modeled Nuclear Reactor at a recent Chinese Expo. From an unbiased spectacle Buckley observes the past plans of the Chinese to build a power plant back in 2013, "In 2013, officials jettisoned plans for a nuclear fuel fabrication plant in the southern province of Guangdong after protests."
Now of course we know how dangerous Nuclear energy can be from the Chernobyl disaster and the Fukushima earthquake. But Chernobyl was caused primarily by 1. miscommunication and 2. a failure of mechanics; and we've learned that these things need to be monitored all the time to be sure that our machines are doing their jobs (gee whiz that's not obvious at all), and we've learned that having a nuclear power plant next to the ocean is not the best idea, alongside the fact that the building housing the reactor should have been made earthquake-safe and everything in between if need be to keep this very clean and efficient energy source safe. The difference between say coal mines is that if there's an infrastructure flaw and miners get caved in (a great example of how nostalgic coal mining actually is), then it's only the workers in that vicinity that are affected. And we know that nuclear has far more dastardly affects on the surrounding population. However the workforce for a nuclear power plant should be a particular expertise in multiple fields. You need people to engineer the different parts of the plant, you need constant monitoring, you need a workforce that knows what they're doing to physically maintain the structures and recycle the nuclear waste. The list goes on; so not only are we providing jobs by switching to nuclear, but the only emission put off by the plants *when done correctly* is harmless water steam/vapor. |
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