The risk of autism goes up the more car and truck exhaust one is exposed to. It can increase to 3 times more likely in pregnant women or infant up to 2 years of age are exposed often at high levels.
My neighbor has an autistic boy, he has never looked at us, never spoken to us in 15 years living here.
One more reason to stay away from traffic jams and busy roads if possible, drive less, pollute less. We need to get off fossil fuels.
And you just made me think about those huge buses in Korea belching that black soot out of their tail pipes in Itaewon....
ReplyDeleteDowntown Seoul was a brown smog...
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Diesel smoke from old busses is so nasty, some of those old engines didn't even burn it all and the particles in the air had both soot and unburned fuel.
DeleteIt makes me wonder why people choose to live in smog laden areas. There's a strip on 99 in California just north of Bakersfield that is simply disgusting for miles and miles. I made a mistake one trip and took the wrong turn into this mess and thought I had entered hell. I could not figure out for the life of me why anyone would live there. It's crazy!
ReplyDeleteRubye J, I think some live in those hell holes because that's all they can afford, up against the freeway or the refinery the area is going to be less affluent, even down right blighted. For some areas that is where the ethnics they share are, so that's an attraction. Maybe for a few they don't know really how dangerous it is, they know it stinks, but not how much it shortens their lives, their health, their prospects to climb the ladder.
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