• Inucune@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    What is the media’s obsession with cooling towers? Anything nuclear, cooling tower. Chemical company? Cooling tower.

    • ulterno@lemmy.kde.social
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      3 months ago

      Because they look like large outlets of coloured air.

      Coloured air coming out of an something is the default way of depicting air pollution.
      Even if it is just water vapour, it has a big enough shock factor.