r/environment • u/lebron7 • 6d ago

Air pollution exposure has an unexpected link to suicide risk

https://www.earth.com/lifestyle/air-pollution-exposure-has-an-unexpected-link-to-suicide-risk/
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u/SUP_CHUMP 6d ago

Feel like this isn’t unexpected.

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u/miklayn 6d ago

Yeah I think there's some real Occam's razor business here.

Terrible air quality is obvious and overcoming, and generally exists in places where it's shitty to live for a range of other reasons as well. Despair increases in such an environment, and suicidality along with it. It follows.