[Stoves] Off-topic news: Uni of Iowa hosts conference to save millions of lives globally

[Nikhil Desai]

Crispin:

Conferences are for Going Up in Smoke.

With the right fuel and fire.

Come October.

Nikhil

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Nikhil Desai
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On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 10:23 PM, Crispin Pemberton-Pigott <
crispinpigott at outlook.com> wrote:

> Dear Nikhil
>
> That is going to be a pretty strange conference. ‎If CO2 is now
> 'pollution' and not the result of perfect biomass combustion what
> performance targets will we now seek?
>
> If they don't know the difference between an attribution of a contribution
> to a premature death and what is written on a death certificate, they are
> in for a shock.
>
> I have been made aware of a new tense in the English language. The idea
> that CO2 is thought by the WHO to be a cause of death of thousands of
> children ‎is stated in the 'future hopeful' tense.
>
> The 'future hopeful' tense describes something said or written that the
> author hopes will one day be shown to be true. ‎It is a form of forecasting
> without the pretense of science.
>
> Regards
> Crispin
>
>
>
> Going up in Smoke program schedule at http://bit.ly/WCSmoke
>
> 5 April 2017
>
> UI hosts conference to save millions of lives globally
> <https://now.uiowa.edu/2017/04/ui-hosts-conference-save-millions-lives-globally>
>
> "Millions of women around the world die every year from the simple
> household task of cooking...
>
> From April 12–14, the University of Iowa will host a group of
> internationally recognized experts at a conference, Women’s Health and
> the Environment: Going up in Smoke
> <http://events.uiowa.edu/event/worldcanvass_womens_health_and_the_environment#.WOUV13QrK3A>,
> to address this silent global crisis...
>
> The World Health Organization estimates that the *carbon dioxide*, carbon
> monoxide, and other pollutants released while burning biomass lead to 4
> million deaths annually...
>
> “Even in developing countries where this is such a problem, there is very
> little media discussion about this issue because* these deaths are spread
> out over the year and therefore not sensational*. It’s what Rob Nixon, a
> professor at Princeton, calls a ‘slow violence.’”
>
>
>
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>
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