re: I live near a power station and the soot on my roof is enormous:
Again, you are making an invalid analogy. The fine particulate matter needs to be thrown into the high atmosphere, in order to stay suspended for years. This takes a lot of force, like a nuclear bomb, a volcano, or a large asteroid.
You live in the local soot plume of a power station. This soot isn't thrown very high, so it has zero global impact. It does, however, have severe local effects. It's coming down, in a fine rain, constantly, on you and your family, and your friends and co-workers. When your kids go outside to play in the yard, they are breathing it in. Unless your house in totally airtight, with airlocks in the doors and a state-of-the-art air filtration system, it's in your indoor air also. When you breathe it in, the large particles (too small to see individually) deposit in your upper airways. If it's irritating enough, it collects in the mucus, which you spit out or swallow. The smaller particles go into your lower, smaller airways, and stay there permanently, slowly accumulating through your life. The soluble parts get into your blood, and part of that gets permanently deposited in bone and fat tissue. Your kidneys and liver have to work overtime, to try and filter this stuff out. It's loaded with carcinogens. You (and your family), probably have the cancer risk of a 1-2 pack-a-day smoker, because you choose to live in that soot plume. Wolves and rabbits don't dump their wastes in their own dens. Why do humans? You can ignore the problem, or get angry at me for pointing it out, but the problem is still there. Think about it. If you investigate what's in this post, with an open mind, you'll find everything is 100% factual. |
