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“The news coverage of the smoke palls swirling out of Canada across the East Coast has centered on the substantial threat to people suffering from asthma, heart disease & other ailments exacerbated by smoke inhalation.

This would be a great moment to remind North American audiences that much of the developing world lives, indoors & outside, with vastly worse smoke exposure.” https://revkin.substack.com/p/putting-the-awful-eastern-us-wildifre

Excellent perspective by @revkin on the US #wildfire smoke. #ClimateChange

in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum

I Agree. Just to add this here in NYC:

"Delivery workers, construction crews, street vendors and gas station employees said they felt scratchy throats and itchy eyes after spending Wednesday and Thursday working in air quality conditions ranked among the worst in the nation. "

https://gothamist.com/news/my-eyes-burned-essential-workers-toil-in-smoke-filled-air-across-tristate-area-despite-warnings

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