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Air quality across the Eastern US & Canada right now (lemmy.world)

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Screenshot taken from PurpleAir. 150 and above is considered unhealthy, 300 and above is considered hazardous.

https://map.purpleair.com/air-quality-standards-us-epa-aqi

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[–] HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca 37 points 3 months ago (7 children)

Welcome to what the west coast has been dealing with for many years now. There are more important people in the east maybe we'll start to think about trying to start to take this seriously.

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[–] Omgpwnies@lemmy.world 33 points 3 months ago (2 children)

We've been dealing with wildfire smoke for years now, our genius Conservative provincial government has been cutting the budget for the services that prevent and put them out.

The fires are in Ontario, just north-ish of Thunder Bay.

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[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

fold in the cheese

Then I don't know how to be any clearer! You take that thing that's in your hand, and you-

If you say "sweep the forest" one more time-

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[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago

And the genius Federal liberals have thrown out most emissions laws and taxes to reduce carbon emissions and pollution. So the whole country can be a toxic shithole like Alberta.

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[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 15 points 3 months ago (1 child)

This has been happening here for the last three years.

The problem is being attributed to the disappearance of some mystical "forest rakers" that no one has ever met.

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[–] xylol@leminal.space 1 point 3 months ago

Probably got cut by doge

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[–] fireweed@lemmy.world [S] 7 points 3 months ago

cries in Washingtonian

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[–] eah@programming.dev 2 points 3 months ago

We need to set the Ozarks on fire and get the south thinking.

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