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As President Trump tries to revive the United States coal industry, research has found that closing a coal facility can improve local health.

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[-] klammeraffe@lemmy.cafe 14 points 1 week ago

The GOP will see this is a horrible blow to the economy

[-] 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago

Clean air is bad for business

[-] Pringles@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago

Depends on the business. Hospitals? Yes. Tourism? No.

And overall a healthy population tends to be a lot more productive than an unhealthy one.

[-] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It is! Not only does the coal processing plant no longer increase GDP, but all the sick people have to pay doctors, the medical companies and so forth. /s

[-] Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

We can't poison people while taking their labor value and then collect the fuck you haha you're sick and can't pay tax? Communism bad librul tardz

[-] Scirocco@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago
[-] silence7@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 week ago

I quite deliberately use gift links so that few people need that

[-] Scirocco@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Oh interesting... I got a challenge/paywall.

Possibly because I was using VPN?

[-] silence7@slrpnk.net 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

A VPN which shares an endpoint with a lot of bots might do it, as will running a "privacy" browser extension which strips the gift token off the URL, or disabling Javascript

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