the really fucked thing about this is a lot of asthmatics have asthma as a result of growing up in areas with poor air quality
I am actually still very annoyed at all the various health issues I have as a result of where I grew up knowingly exposing me to poison to save money and because not letting cars idle in front of the elementary school all day is communism
Children not dying carbon footprint 'as big as school shootings'
It's literally impossible to tell what is the best option, by Michelle Roberts
In other news; Liberalism is a very good and normal ideology and communism killed 300 million people
China carbon footprint 'bigger than the Nazi Germany's'
This thread is why I like it here. The comments are good. I feel heard and defended.
What the author is neglecting, which is interesting, since she is working in medicine, is that patients "compliance" (so taking meds regularly and visiting experts to get the correct meds) is reduced when you shame then and make their meds seem as bad as "eating meat" (and implied mass animal agriculture).
Article from 2019 archive is: https://archive.is/2ThUF
It is even funnier to read that article post Covid. As a good Covid response would've meant fewer people who need asthma medication, as some people post covid are in need of inhalers.
In addition if you use your emergency spray then it has a reason, not using it is bad. Using it also means that people will more likely continue using their bikes, legs, public transportation instead of cars.
That said, there are alternatives to "metered inhalers", that work for many, i.e. the newer generation pulver inhalators, which also often show how many charges are left. I am quite happy having done enough youth groups, that the medication tells you if it is empty or not.
Fuck you, I like breathing and I’ll continue to use what works you ghouls. Already vegan so cancels out by your metrics. Why don’t we cancel mass sentient creature slaughter instead of ripping oxygen out of peoples’ lungs?
If the problem is the medication why are you writing about the patients..?
Reminder that the whole carbon footprint discourse was successfully astroturfed by Ogilvy & Mather on behalf of BP.
“Even a homeless person living in a fossil fuel powered society has an unsustainably high carbon footprint,” said Stanford’s Franta. “As long as fossil fuels are the basis for the energy system, you could never have a sustainable carbon footprint. You simply can’t do it.”
smh at homeless people for not [REDACTED] capitalists to reduce their carbon footprint
Could and should medicines be produced in a ecologically sustainable way? Absolutely.
Should patients be shamed and made individually responsible for the carbon footprint of their medications? Absolutely not. Shame the big pharma industry instead.
made individually responsible
the definition of neoliberalism
It absolutely is not true
Other articles say that in the UK, inhaler gases account for 3.5% of the greenhouse gas emissions from the UK's health system
I really appreciate takes like this. They help me test the resolve of my "No we should not just shoot all the ghouls when the revolution comes" stance.
Disabled can cut down their carbon by simply stop buying wheelchairs and crawl instead
