She died of respiratory failure as a result of an asthma attack. This is asinine, we don't claim people who die from a heart attack to have died because of cheeseburger overdose...
This world gets more and more absurd daily.
This world gets more and more absurd daily.
Also by the same logic, heart attacks do not kill, the resulting oxygen shortage does. Correction, it isn’t the oxygen shortage, it’s some chemical reaction in your brain cells that causes irreversible changes (experts in the field likely can split this in a sequence of multiple events)
If you take this chain to the limit, you end up with “you die because your cells die”, which is almost circular reasoning.
I think what matters is what’s the root or at least primary cause. If a child has asthma, would easily have survived in a normal (already polluted) city environment, but died because of living in an extremely polluted neighborhood, I would agree taking that as the cause of her death.
Back to the cheeseburger example: “died of overeating” (if eating a lot in a short time frame caused the heart attack) or “died of obesity” (if eating too much over a long period stressed the heart too much) could, IMO, be better descriptions than “died of a heart attack”
Entities abusing shared resources for economic gain is hardly a new concept and most definitely NOT absurd. Even the most conservative of economists will be able to discuss the Tragedy of the commons, a concept dating back to the 1800s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons
Economics aside, she was a 9 year old girl - think on that for a bit. Listen I don't know who you are or where you're from, maybe you have a good reason to hold this point of view... but the only way things are going to get better for everyone is if we all have a little empathy for each other.
Her mother noticed that the air pollution levels were above the legal limit and wants to put the blame on someone, maybe even get damage.
There is no single cause of death. The question is which one to choose.
I wonder what cause of death is mentioned when someone allergic to peanuts eat peanuts. Is it "peanuts", "peanuts allergy", or "anaphylactic shock". The first one is the trigger, the second is the underlying condition, the third is the symptom. All the three should be valid.
We kind of do though, it's not the case for all of them but poor nutrition has always been linked with cardiovascular issues.
It's like if you said, "nah he didn't die because he smoked 5 packs a day, he died of lung cancer"