Behold air quality stripes; like climate stripes, but for the stuff that kills you directly. The visualization shows how much clean air legislation, moving away from coal, and generally not setting carbon on fire improve air quality and reduce excess deaths. airqualitystripes.info/stripes/?con...
LA's is also a cool one to see! My mom said that when she visited there in the 80's, it was absolutely putrid with smog, so she was relieved that it was better by the time I moved there for grad school.
Very interesting!! I wish it had more cities in the US--striking that LA, known as a US hotspot for smog, never hit the levels of London
pretty funny that the only three cities available for the US are: DC, LA, and Fairbanks.
Very interesting - thanks!
For this post especially, I wish there were a 🖤 option.
A friend of mine who lived through Ireland’s coal ban said it really was like waking up one day and being able to see the sky for the first time. It all just went away. I think about that a lot