c/collapse · by PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat · 1yWildfire smoke is always toxic. LA's is even worse. https://grist.org/health/wildfire-smoke-is-are-always-toxic-las-is-even-worse/59 points · 6 comments · view on lemmy.world
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ownsauce@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y
Maybe they'll see an increase in 9/11 first responder style cancers and lung issues over the next few years.
PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat · 10 pts · 1y
I think almost certainly. With the scale of the fire, I think a lot of people may see that increase.
PanArab@lemm.ee · 7 pts · 1y
Good thing 9/11 first responder were well taken care of.
Windex007@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Thankfully it didn't take a tv host to get it done like 20 years after the fact.
Passerby6497@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Given how this is becoming a yearly tradition, I'd expect that rise is already in progress.
hanrahan@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 1y
So is traffic pollution, doesn't seem to bother most people? Bother as in, give no fuks. Eg in Australia it kiils an estimated 11,000 a year. I can inagibe it being less then 100k on the USA.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02-24/air-pollution-modelling-university-of-melbourne-traffic/102015778
Thwb there is the whole mask issue during Covid, how many did not wearing a mask kill?