Economautists are the only people who think just like me. (Check out how they measure the cost of increased dementia through air pollution to society) http://www.nber.org/papers/w24970 pic.twitter.com/ntcqAli6fi
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Economautists are the only people who think just like me. (Check out how they measure the cost of increased dementia through air pollution to society) http://www.nber.org/papers/w24970 pic.twitter.com/ntcqAli6fi
Is there evidence that native Los Angelenos like me are more demented? Could be ... but it doesn't seem to come up much. Logically, should see bad health effects due to horrid LA smog from 1943-c.1993, but I haven't seen studies. Health nuts flocked to LA even in smog years.
It's not necessarily correlated with visible smog pollution. Also if higher IQ people live there they tend to show less dementia so you could have an effect even with lower dementia within LA
During L.A.'s smog years, smog was much worse inland due to prevailing ocean breeze, so dementia ought to be least common among retired professors of UCLA worse at USC, even worse at Caltech, worst at Claremont. Anybody study this?
My vague impression is that the massive health problems that smog ought to have caused in Los Angeles haven't really happened. I could be totally wrong, but smog-related health woes don't come up much in L.A. Times. My dad died at 95, the lady across the street at 101.
I think it's more like Californians tend to be naturally healthy, and the place has other benefits (eg sunlight). But pollution is pushing health downwards, even if it's not so bad that it's wiping out those other positive factors
My grandfather moved from Oak Park, IL to Pasadena, CA in 1929 because he was a paranoid health food nut who thought commercial foods were poisoning him and he could grow his own fruits and vegetables in California. The roots of hippiedom often found in German-American paranoia.
I wrote about how 1960s hippies tended to be Northern Europeans who seemed dazed by California's climate of a perpetual May Day: http://takimag.com/article/the_original_nature_boys_steve_sailer/#axzz5QgvZhyHI …pic.twitter.com/Fkljx0he1g
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