What sounds like overeach in itself, is actually a cover for something potentially far, far worse.
© Off-Guardian
Talk of banning gas stoves and "unregulated indoor air quality" could be a Trojan horse designed to get even more "smart" monitoring technology into your home.
Let's jump in.
ARE GAS STOVES DANGEROUS?
Well, according to
Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, the
New Scientist and million other outlets and pundits who started talking about it in the last two days, yes.
Earlier this week near-identical articles from the
National Review, Bloomberg and
CNN detail how the US Consumer Product Safety Commission will be opening
"public comment on the dangers of gas stoves sometime this winter".
The articles claim:
The emissions have been linked to illness, cardiovascular problems, cancer, and other health conditions. More than 12 percent of current childhood asthma cases are linked to gas stove use, according to peer-reviewed research published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health last month.
Now would be a good time to talk about the phrase "linked to". It's always a good one to look out for in any mainstream publication. Journalists love it because it implies causation without stating it.
Consider, one hundred per cent of serial killers have been linked to the ingestion of water and the wearing of shoes.
If this manipulative use of language were not evidence enough of an agenda, the rather premature deployment of the race card proves it:
Senator Cory Booker (D., N.J.) and Representative Don Beyer (D., Va.) wrote a letter to the agency last month urging the commission to address the issue and calling the harmful emissions a "cumulative burden" on black, Latino and low-income households.
Comment: An impressive analysis of the process of war via the current sides involved.