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Mark Jacobson pushing his plans in appropriate location – late night comedy show

…fects of air pollution. He assigns a monetary value to each of those early deaths of $7.7 million. Here is a quote explaining the basis for that value: The value of life is determined by economists based on what people are willing to pay to avoid health risks as determined by how much employers pay their workers to take additional risks. (pg 593) By multiplying each of the 4,000 annual early deaths from air pollution by $7.7 million per person, Ja…

Challenging New York Academy of Sciences to repudiate “Chernobyl Consequences”
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Challenging New York Academy of Sciences to repudiate “Chernobyl Consequences”

…nterest; those people are just lucky. If the average annual rate of cancer deaths in the counties of this study is, for example, 10, then suppose one of that 10 moves to an adjacent county. That raises the death rate for the new county to 11, and lowers the old county to 9 – a 20% difference! If, instead of 10, the average is hundreds, or thousands; do they then lose the magic of small numbers? Not at all. They can then break the data down into pa…

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