tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37309767.post4576445774826527844..comments2024-01-04T13:54:21.297+04:00Comments on Social Science in the Caucasus: The Least Healthy City in the World?HansGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02363857450625734125noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37309767.post-90300279549023287632007-04-20T14:13:00.000+04:002007-04-20T14:13:00.000+04:00Dear Genews,Thanks for the comment. Very interesti...Dear Genews,<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the comment. Very interesting articles as well.<BR/><BR/>I think you make a good point. <BR/><BR/>How you judge health depends on which factors are more important and how they are ranked. <BR/><BR/>Air quality v. water quality -- for example.AaronEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05267661422506470206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37309767.post-67626697418983569582007-04-12T15:32:00.000+04:002007-04-12T15:32:00.000+04:00Baku certainly ranks among the world's worst cases...Baku certainly ranks among the world's worst cases of soil contamination, which makes its groundwater toxic (http://www.caspianenvironment.org/eracl/unido_4.htm). The Caspian is an oil sump. (http://www.ce-review.org/01/3/smailes3.html) Sumgait was a gigantic chem lab with no safety equipment, and has a children's cemetery to show for it (http://www.bootsnall.com/articles/06-08/the-baby-cemetery-sumgait-azerbaijan.html).<BR/><BR/>Expats in P-a-P and Dhaka can insulate themselves from poor sanitation, but it's a lot harder to avoid a comprehensive environmental catastrophe. <BR/><BR/>That said, Baku's ozone and particulates levels aren't anywhere near the world's worst, and I'd expect that a year in Mexico City, or Beijing, or Teheran is a lot likelier to make an expat sick than a year in Baku.Jonathan Kulickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07948310496229298695noreply@blogger.com