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      Meanwhile…

      Stanford researchers found that cooking with gas stoves can raise indoor levels of the carcinogen benzene above those found in secondhand smoke.

      It’s really wild how committed dumb people are to receiving Darwin awards for them and their families.

      “Vaccines don’t work and are a hoax, and it’s unrelated people who agree with me are dying from COVID at a higher rate.”

      “Liberals want to take away my red meat every day of the week and limit how much high fructose corn syrup soda I drink in a day, but screw them. Unrelated, my whole family has diabetes and older members strangely have heart disease and colon cancers…”

      People who treat science as a dirty word really seem to have higher all cause mortality. So bizarre and unexplainable.

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        People who treat science as a dirty word really seem to have higher all cause mortality.

        The bigger crime is businesses that treat technological advancement as an excuse to charge more for what should be the new baseline standard.

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          The big food companies and healthcare industry want to keep you alive and consuming as long as possible. How shut you feel in the meantime doesn’t affect their bottom line as long as you don’t figure out the connection.

          But the healthy people are subsidizing their shirt eating habits with our insurance rates and Medicare taxes. So Darwin and Maddie don’t get a chance to fix this problem and we end up baking our planet.

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        And I like how we now have evidence this info was known and suppressed in fear of reducing sales

        And also how this would mean gas stoves would require better ventilation to meet code, not that they’d be banned outright

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            There’s only three examples in there, one of which was a true ban but already overturned, and the other two are changes to code that will ban them situationally in the future for new buildings, and aren’t even in effect yet

            They’re literally not banned according to that article

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      God forbid they switch to electric induction which makes it more likely they will have to buy pans made with American steel SMH

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        Are you really trying to tell me that a good solution to our hollowed-out working class AND the climate crisis is to transition as rapidly as possible to renewable energy and sustainable tech that we design, develop, and produce in our own country???

        You sound like a communist grrrrrr!

        (I hope my sarcasm comes across. I’m very tired as I type.)

      • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥@lemmy.world
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        Unfortunately, good induction cooktops are not available everywhere. And certainly not available for cheap. Where I am, there are no 4 hob cooktops available.

        Also, induction and electric cooktops need cookware that has flat bottom. However, constant heating and cooling of cookware means over time, the bottom will develop a curve for most of them.

        This unfortunately means that gas stoves are not going anywhere, at least in Asia and Africa which are cost sensitive markets.

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          Induction works fine with a warped pan. I can even lift my pan almost a cm and it still heats fine on a cheap hob.

          Direct electric, not so much. But that’s not relevant to the discussion.

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      Hello good day to you fellow Lemmy user, i will promply explain how it works. See, the hoax is to get you to spend money on you don’t need, while viewing corporations as eco-friendly whilst they utilize it as an excuse cheapen the cost of resources and give you worse products. Source here. Henceforth, the entire thing is in fact a hoax. Thusly I hope this clears up any confusion about us anti climate changers

      Edit: Fellow lemmiers, why do you downdoot me today?

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        If only there were some body of governance that could regulate things for an entire society. Too bad mankind never had any tools like that. Oh well. Enjoy growing gills.

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        Cites source that opens with satire agreeing with their point but then explicitly says the opposite:

        If this is what you believe I would respectfully disagree and I would urge you to get on the phone and call friends and family around the country to hear about what their communities are experiencing. I would also suggest that you check out (reliable) websites and take a look at what’s going on in virtually every part of the world. If you do, here’s what you’ll find. […]

        Scientists look at a lot of things – gas trapped in ice, tree rings, glaciers, pollen remains, even changes in the Earth’s orbit – to study the natural changes in our climate going back millions of years. What these natural changes tell us is that it normally takes thousands of years for the earth to warm just a couple of degrees. The temperature increases we’ve seen in just the past century should have taken almost a thousand years.

        Great source. You should read the whole thing.

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        Where in the source that you linked does it say that a switch to electric stoves is an aspect of greenwashing?

        Also to argue that is bad faith. Obviously corporations will want to greenwash themselves and provide us with cheap products. That’s their whole MO. However, that doesn’t mean that a product is bad de facto. That’s like arguing that because corporations producing solar panels have an interest in selling us solar panels, that solar panels are really actually not better for the environment than fossil fuels. I’ll give you credit for only forcing me to read a Bernie Sanders op ed, but your argument doesn’t make sense and your source doesn’t support it.

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        0 / 31 votes

        lemmy’s sarcasm detector is about as bad as reddit’s