Why the incidence of cancer is increasing: the role of ‘light pollution’
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2021, Resource and Energy EconomicsCitation Excerpt :Light pollution-driven changes in circadian rhythms may also have contributed to recent growth in obesity and metabolic dysfunction (Fonken et al., 2010). Growing laboratory and epidemiological evidence also support the long-hypothesized relationship between nighttime light exposure and cancer rates (Kerenyi et al., 1990; Kloog et al., 2010; Schwimmer et al., 2014; Jones, 2018). While there is some work speculating that light pollution associated with shale development induces psychosocial stress (Fisher et al., 2017), sleep and mental health issues (Casey et al. 2018), and local ecosystems (Kiviat, 2013), the literature directly connecting the recent resource boom to light pollution is extremely limited.
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