Its not the same though is it. In your example there can be a cause of death identified as radiation poising which can be attributed to the residue in his house.
With the VW example, you cant quantify it at all. How much has it shortened peoples lives? 2 seconds? 10 years? nanoseconds?
Its not a direct correlation, theres no graph you can plot with emissions against length of life, and so claiming that there is a direct correlation is Hyperbole.
> With the VW example, you cant quantify it at all. How much has it shortened peoples lives? 2 seconds? 10 years? nanoseconds? Its not a direct correlation, theres no graph you can plot with emissions against length of life
> According to
new research published in Nature, NOX from diesel
vehicle exhaust was linked to 107,600 premature
deaths worldwide in 2015. Of these, ~38,000 are
attributable to excess NOX emissions.
Sounds like the graphs do exist. (Obviously VW is only a fraction of those specific numbers.)
With the VW example, you cant quantify it at all. How much has it shortened peoples lives? 2 seconds? 10 years? nanoseconds? Its not a direct correlation, theres no graph you can plot with emissions against length of life, and so claiming that there is a direct correlation is Hyperbole.