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Air pollution emerges as critical environmental risk factor for autism, emerging topic review finds (www.eurekalert.org)
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The timing of exposure appears crucial, with heightened vulnerability during prenatal development and early childhood when critical neurodevelopmental processes occur.

The research suggests that individuals with genetic predisposition to ASD may be more vulnerable to the harmful effects of air pollution exposure

The implications extend beyond individual health to public policy. How might cities need to adapt their urban planning to protect vulnerable populations? What role could air quality monitoring play in prenatal care?

Actually I don't see why anything would be done to orevent development of autism, when not much was done for all the already known damage that actual urban development cause

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[–] grue@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Urban development doesn't cause air pollution. Cars cause air pollution.

There's a difference.

[–] lgsp@feddit.it 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

How many cars, how much they are driven and how they are driven, depend on urban development.

Urban development -> cars -> pollution

If you want less cars going around, design your cities to allow and incentivize people not to use them. See recent developments in Paris as an example:

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/paris-olympics-city-reduce-air-pollution-rcna153470

[–] reedbend@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 days ago

Industry also causes air pollution and plenty of it. It's more visually segregated in developed countries. But as an example, have you ever explored the Pakistani factory video genre on Youtube?

[–] dsilverz@thelemmy.club 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

¿Por qué no los dos?

[–] grue@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Because dense urban development is good, actually, and we don't need people posting pro-sprawl misinformation.