Guardian investigation finds 98% of Europeans breathing highly damaging polluted air linked to 400,000 deaths a year
FlyLikeAMouse ( @FlyLikeAMouse@feddit.uk ) 54•10 months agoI predict that nothing will change, we will carry on breathing polluted air, the situation will get worse but still, nothing will change.
Zacryon ( @Zacryon@feddit.de ) 19•10 months agoGermans would say “Tja”, shrug and then drive with their unnecessarily big car to the bakery which is around the corner to buy some Mettwurstbrötchen. Sitting then with their friends at a Stammtisch over a beer and talk angrily about how people need to change something before they fall into bed and forget about it.
First ( @First@programming.dev ) 8•10 months agoSound more like the U.S. than Germany - Germany has the €49/month public transport ticket, relatively good public transport offerings and a green party that has the best election results of the western industrial countries. Of course shutting down nuclear power plants didn’t do them any favours regarding pollution.
KyuubiNoKitsune ( @KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 2•10 months ago49? Damn, it’s like €90 in Stockholm.
elouboub ( @elouboub@kbin.social ) 3•10 months agoWe will vote for the same people, keep buying iPhones, and get distracted by stupid shit. As is customary.
Zacryon ( @Zacryon@feddit.de ) 22•10 months agoCar drivers:
EmilieEvans ( @EmilieEvans@lemmy.ml ) 17•10 months agoWood 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).
RickyRigatoni ( @RickyRigatoni@lemmy.ml ) 16•10 months agoWood stove smells good so acceptable air pollution.
Saff ( @Saff@lemmy.ml ) 4•10 months agoDoes this mean we can go back to 2 stroke engines then? That would be amazing, I mean not for the planet but I love that smell so much…
RickyRigatoni ( @RickyRigatoni@lemmy.ml ) 2•10 months agoAbsolutely.
float ( @float@feddit.de ) 2•10 months agoThe sound on the other hand…
quinnly ( @quinnly@lemmy.ml ) 5•10 months agoAs 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
601error ( @601error@lemmy.ca ) English4•10 months agoDang. In wildfire season here in western Canada, my air filter gets brought out well before the 100 mark.
macniel ( @DmMacniel@feddit.de ) 20•10 months ago[…] Our food is unfit to eat, our air is unfit to breathe…
Luckily the world isn’t going crazy or we live in a depression or the Russians are doing something or we don’t go out anymore and the world is getting smaller.
ftothe3 ( @ftothe3@lemm.ee ) 2•10 months agoWhy is it so bad in Northern Italy?
ours ( @ours@lemmy.film ) English5•10 months agoThat’s where all the Italian industry is at.
ftothe3 ( @ftothe3@lemm.ee ) 2•10 months agoI was wondering if the alps also contribute by trapping the smog there
P1r4nha ( @P1r4nha@feddit.de ) 1•10 months agoProbably a bit. It’s the Po valley after all. But it’s mostly the density of industry.