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Switching to electric stoves can dramatically cut indoor air pollution (news.stanford.edu)
submitted 9 months ago* by to c/science@lemmy.world
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[–] -3 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I don't get why there's such a huge push from self-declared "left-wing" people to prescribe others what to do. Supposedly, "left-wing" people don't like being told what to do, i.e. by employers (who are making them work in bad ways) or by "main-stream dominant right-wing culture". At the same time, the very same people who don't like being told what to do, tell others what to do. Such as by wanting to force everyone to switch to a specific type of technology that's supposedly superior. I don't get this behavior.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Renters don't get a choice, and pollution affects everyone

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago* (1 child)

    renters don't get a choice in practice, but they should in theory, and pollution from gas stoves is less than from combustion cars, just that it's densely concentrated in your apartment, so levels are still high for you. but it does not affect everyone

    a better move would be to actually build social housing, instead of prescribing others what they should build. otherwise you're simply seen as "the party that wants to forbid others from doing what they like", instead of being seen as "the party that actually does some meaningful construction and adds to society that way".

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