Coal plants in South Africa lift the death rate in their local community by 6% www.bloomberg.com/news/article... - ThreadSky

ketanjoshi.co • 2 days ago

Coal plants in South Africa lift the death rate in their local community by 6%

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-05/south-africa-s-coal-plants-boost-death-rates-by-6-study-shows?cmpid=BBD030625_GREENDAILY&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=250306&utm_campaign=greendaily

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greyarea22.bsky.social•1 day ago

Nice

theeagles.bsky.social•1 day ago

Everyone knows that Coal Plants cause health risks! South Africa government is not protecting their people!

enorconhcet.bsky.social•1 day ago

The premier of Alberta is overriding environmental & health studies, opening coal mines. Alberta is fossil fuel heaven for corporations.

discoursology.bsky.social•1 day ago

“Lift”? Is this Bloomberg trying not to be too critical? At least no euphemism for “death rate”

persont.bsky.social•2 days ago

Do informal settlements next. Plus there's a noticeable lack of larger trees or abundant shrubbery in the towns near and around power stations

astrobot101.bsky.social•1 day ago

Nobody thinks about S. Africa much

jeanswithpockets.bsky.social•2 days ago

@vamposts.co.za

This appears bad

vamposts.co.za•1 day ago

yeh we're entirely too coal reliant despite literal decades of stories like this and pledges to do: better. cautiously optimistic rn because more independent producers are coming up and they tend to be@green and the department of energy has finally been split from the department of mineral resources

vamposts.co.za•1 day ago

really when it comes to this renewables, the less our government is involved the better. electric cars have a higher import tax than petrol-engine cars, and eskom's literal century long state-enforced monopoly and backwards thinking means using electric cars is Less environmentally friendly here

vamposts.co.za•1 day ago

our politicians like to deflect when talking about emissions to say western countries pollute more than the rest of the world historically, but ignore that eskom was (maybe still is) the largest emitter of sulfur dioxide on planet earth. a mess all-around, it's good they're getting out of the way