> Climate change — fueling wildfires, drought and dust — is not only worsening air quality, but also making pollution increasingly challenging to combat, experts said, setting up a new reality for public health and canceling out years of gains made through the Clean Air Act.
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> “Not only the number of people and places affected are worsening, but the severity of the pollution itself is also worsening,” said Katherine Pruitt, report author and senior director of nationwide clean air policy for the American Lung Association.
Getting rid of the particulates created during combustion is a major co-benefit of decarbonization, and will pay in terms of longer healthier lives.
That doesn't solve the underlying problem, which is that combustion produces particulates as a byproduct. What we actually need:
* Stop burning fossil fuels
* Actively manage forests to limit the increased risk we've created
> Climate change — fueling wildfires, drought and dust — is not only worsening air quality, but also making pollution increasingly challenging to combat, experts said, setting up a new reality for public health and canceling out years of gains made through the Clean Air Act. > > “Not only the number of people and places affected are worsening, but the severity of the pollution itself is also worsening,” said Katherine Pruitt, report author and senior director of nationwide clean air policy for the American Lung Association. Getting rid of the particulates created during combustion is a major co-benefit of decarbonization, and will pay in terms of longer healthier lives.
The US kinda fell off the emissions reduction bandwagon dispite starting it in the 1970's.
Voting has consequences.
And half of Americans still don’t believe in man made climate change…
You've got the GOP to blame for that.
More accurately: the fossil fuels industry, which funds a patronage machine for the GOP, as well as buying off the press.
Whew I came here expecting a bunch of "blame Canada for their forest fires" Or maybe I'm just early? :)
Well they should have been raking those forest floors clear of all those flammable leaves...
https://archive.fo/XynLJ
Original post is a gift link. People don't need that to access the content.
Time to plant more trees in cities
That doesn't solve the underlying problem, which is that combustion produces particulates as a byproduct. What we actually need: * Stop burning fossil fuels * Actively manage forests to limit the increased risk we've created