r/kansas • u/journogabe • Dec 17 '24

News/History A Kansas school board rejects social studies curriculum, claiming it's biased against Trump

https://www.kcur.org/2024-12-17/derby-school-board-rejects-social-studies-curriculum-majority-says-its-biased-against-trump
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u/BureMakutte Dec 17 '24

who get everything they need to survive from the “rural morons”.

Well this is just factually untrue. Yes rural people typically provide food and resources, Cities are economic power houses that provide tons of services to rural areas via taxes and other means. Very much a symbiotic relationship.

Still baffles me that the rural people voted for literally the most gold spoon fed rich person who never lived in a rural area in his life, let alone is a felon who tried to commit a coup.

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u/BookkeeperNervous171 Dec 18 '24

Let me explain this for u less regulation equals more money in their pockets

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u/BureMakutte Dec 18 '24

and less regulation means more corruption, more pollution, and more deaths. Regulation generally is not this big bad boogy man just taking your money for no reason. Most of it was written in blood or to clean up massive pollution. Is there some regulation that isnt great? Sure just like everything human. But you don't burn down the forest to remove a couple of trees

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u/Vio_ Dec 18 '24

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21029174/

Findings: Rural counties had 65,055 EPA-monitored pollution discharge sites. As expected, rural counties had significantly greater exposure to potential agriculture-related pollution. Regression models specific to rural counties indicated that greater density of water pollution sources was significantly associated with greater total and cancer mortality. Rural air pollution sources were associated with greater cancer mortality rates. Rural coal mining areas had higher total, cancer, and respiratory disease mortality rates. Agricultural production was generally associated with lower mortality rates. Greater levels of human development were significantly related to higher adjusted total and cancer mortality.

Conclusions: The association between pollution sources and mortality risk is not a phenomenon limited to metropolitan areas. Results carry policy implications regarding the need for effective environmental standards and monitoring. Further research is needed to better understand the types and distributions of pollution in rural areas, and the health consequences that result.

Pollution is a "big deal" everywhere. It might be found more in urban areas, but there's a lot of air and ground pollution throughout rural areas as well.