Guardian investigation finds 98% of Europeans breathing highly damaging polluted air linked to 400,000 deaths a year

    • EmilieEvans@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Wood stoves are a major problem. As soon as it gets cold in Germany, air pollution rises from below 5µg/m^3 to 20-100 µg/m^3 and stays there for months (in this particular area).

      • 601error@lemmy.ca
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        1 year ago

        Dang. In wildfire season here in western Canada, my air filter gets brought out well before the 100 mark.

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        1 year ago

        As someone who lives in a wood-heated house, what do you suggest I do? I’d rather not freeze to death and I can’t afford any other heating options

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          Keep doing what you need to. Don’t feel bad for living. If you have the ability to switch them consider it but realistically it needs to be pushed into law to ban wood burning furnace. Individuals changing isn’t enough.