Kill me maybe
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🗓️ 24 August 2018
⏱️ 20 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You like to listen to podcasts, but how about audiobooks? |
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| 0:15.7 | your first audiobook purchase. |
| 0:30.0 | Mayor Irfan, you report on the environment for Vox. |
| 0:42.4 | It's been a wild week of news, and easy to miss in all of it is that the EPA rolled back |
| 0:48.2 | regulations on coal. |
| 0:49.8 | I don't want to sleep on that. |
| 0:51.4 | Yeah, you definitely shouldn't, because it could kill you. |
| 0:54.8 | Wait, that sounds a little dramatic. |
| 0:57.4 | Who says it could kill me? |
| 0:58.6 | Well, the environmental protection agency's own regulatory impact analysis of this new |
| 1:03.0 | rule says that it will kill 1,400 additional people by 2030. |
| 1:07.0 | That is in per year, right? |
| 1:08.4 | By 2030, it'll kill 1,000 people. |
| 1:10.6 | No, no, it's an annual rate. |
| 1:12.2 | What? |
| 1:13.2 | Yeah, these are called premature deaths. |
| 1:14.8 | So basically, you know, it's not like somebody's cause of death or death certificate is going |
| 1:18.1 | to read killed by a coal power plant, but people who are experiencing heart attacks that |
| 1:22.5 | they otherwise would not have had or emphysemo or any other kinds of asthma and other kinds of |
| 1:27.3 | diseases. |
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