Just what we need, another ‘expert’ with mental illness.
Sorry. But The Atlantic is Marxist pure and simple. Shouldn’t even be presented for mockery. Everyone here should know what It really is by now.
Articles written either by dyed in the wool marxists or useful idiots.
Hmmm... some scientist. It apparently escapes her that “correlation is not causation”.
At the beginning of each new day...I don’t make a move until I’ve received my daily lecture from the Left.
They never disappoint.
The Atlantic is run by the Prozac ladies of NPR.
Gas appliances are vented
We’re all gonna die! (By method #674)
I have asthma. I have cooked on a gas stove for 20 years with no issues. I love my gas stove a d would not give it up for anything. The byproducts or burning natural gas on the stove are CO2 and water nothing like car exhaust and neither will bother your asthma.
If her gas stove exacerbated her son’s asthma, then the stove was probably defective or improperly installed - not the natural gas...
Natural gas is the best and cheapest way to run the appliances in your home. Obviously you want to make sure you have things properly vented. That’s just common sense. I also have natural gas powering my furnace and instant hot water heater. After having moved from a home with heating oil, I’ve cut my utility costs by 2/3. I’m never going back.
Yes, exactly. That's why we have these things called "flues", and "vent hoods".
So what's their point anyway? Probably something like "buy a total electric house and opt for a higher billing rate so you can say your house is powered by the windmills?"
Seems to be where they would be going with such stuff.
Fumes generally means odor.
CO is odorless.
If her stove is smelly, maybe incomplete combustion, that is a damaged stove.
What is she cooking on that stove? Vegan, free gluten, ....
Mayby that’s making the kid sick.
I now think we need to mandate mask wearing in every home that uses natural gas in any way. If it can save even one life....
Funny how the word ‘hypochondriac’ fell into disuse while the actual prevalence of the condition has exploded.
Here in Panama, many cook with gas (if not wood) because electricity is considered much more expensive and the typical Panamanian has to stretch their budgets however they can so my apartment is equipped with a gas stove and a gas clothes dryer (most Panamanians dry clothes on good old fashioned clotheslines) but I also have an electric refrigerator/freezer and a microwave oven/toaster. Living in the Chiriqui mountains, I almost never need air conditioning or heating, which really brings down the cost. In the city or the lowlands, however, an AC is essential.
What I fear about gas stoves is forgetting to turn off the oven after I’m done cooking. Thankfully, I’m not a smoker.
I hope no one explains to her how HVAC units work.
Gas stoves... used for more than a hundred years without incident - but suddenly anecdotal evidence says they cause asthma.
Even though families with electric stoves have kids with asthma.
SCIENCE! (And, of course, it was leftists like her that started the anti-vax craze)
Absolutely true.
But unless mommy is cooking on the stove 24/7 there is going to be little of those fumes to make it into baby’s lungs.
More likely, if it is air pollutants at all that is causing the asthma, would be the offlaying of synthetic materials in the house. Things like carpet and furniture give of gasses from the foam and upholstery.
I doubt very much that asthma is caused by burning natural gas. I grew up in the 1960s and 70s. Our house had a gas Furness, range and water heater. Cars burned leaded gas for most of my childhood. Asthma was very rare in my generation. I never knew anyone with asthma until I was in my twenties. My mother cooked for 10 so that unvented range got a workout.
The air in today’s homes is far cleaner than probably anytime in human history. Consider that 100 years ago, when asthma was rare, many homes were heated by coal or wood stoves that were poorly vented. I very much doubt that it is pollutants in home that is causing asthma.
It may well be the opposite.
Bull schiff. Next thing you know they’ll be saying the climate is changing and we have to give up all petroleum.