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I understood that rural air is significantly worse than urban due to all the pesticides.

I live in a rural area and air here is significantly better than smog filled and ozone enriched air in the city I used to live in. Not to mention the lack of winter fog that can linger around for weeks at times.

And that's excluding the light and noise pollution that are inevitable in urban areas. Yeah, living in a rural area is pure hell.

What do you believe Ozone is?!?

Deeply toxic to human lungs.

Today I learned that ozone is typically found in the stratosphere (which I knew) but also at ground level due to chemical reactions.

And if you own an air purifier, likely in your room!

A fairly toxic allotrope of oxygen?

Worse than urban air with auto pollution? I'd want to see a source for that...

Yeah, ppl on the ring road of Amsterdam live 10 years shorter afaik, for instance

Source? As a counter anecdote: Madrid, where most people live near traffic, has the highest life expectancy in the EU at 85.4 years.

maybe there are other factors at play here; who knows how long would they live if they didn't live near traffic.

What are they doing differently to get this average?

I had to look it up, i was indeed mistaken. It's 79 days on average. The road is called the A10, so I guess I mixed that up :)

Source, in dutch: https://www.hln.be/milieu/omwonenden-a10-snelweg-leven-79-da...

Poor people live next to highways?

Or when we build the highway, we don’t raze the homes of the elite/wealthy/well-connected to do it, we do it in “bad neighbourhoods”

Or indirect effects: factories move/build next to the new highway (ease of moving materials+density of employees+ease of commuting because of the highway), contaminating the neighbourhood.

Many rural areas do not have farming.

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