stopthatgirl7@kbin.social to World News · 1 year agoRevealed: almost everyone in Europe is breathing toxic airwww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square35fedilinkarrow-up1264arrow-down111file-textcross-posted to: europe@feddit.deeurope@feddit.deglobalnews@lemmy.zip
arrow-up1253arrow-down1external-linkRevealed: almost everyone in Europe is breathing toxic airwww.theguardian.comstopthatgirl7@kbin.social to World News · 1 year agomessage-square35fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: europe@feddit.deeurope@feddit.deglobalnews@lemmy.zip
Guardian investigation finds 98% of Europeans breathing highly damaging polluted air linked to 400,000 deaths a year
minus-squareMJBrune@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 year agoSo, I live in Western Washington and was wondering if this is actually one place where the USA wins over Europe and… I’m currently breathing 4.5 micrograms of PM2.5. So equal to living in Denmark. Success! Let’s spot-check… wait… https://www.iqair.com/us/uk/england/london/putney-weimar-street London is only at 9 micrograms. I guess that’s still double mine. Let’s be fair and pick the worst part in Seattle: https://www.iqair.com/us/usa/washington/seattle/overlook-at-magnolia still 5.8 micrograms. Let’s try one more time in Germany, It seems like any place in Germany will be above a 10. https://www.iqair.com/us/germany/nordrhein-westfalen/koln/rodenkirchen it’s 5. So maybe this is a time when Western Washington is on par with Europe? Is IQAir not a great source?
minus-squareappel@whiskers.bim.boatslinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 year agoProbably due to the relative density of emitters
minus-squarevagrantprodigy@lemmy.whynotdrs.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoI live in the middle of nowhere in the Southeast, and apparently my area has a score of 12.
So, I live in Western Washington and was wondering if this is actually one place where the USA wins over Europe and… I’m currently breathing 4.5 micrograms of PM2.5. So equal to living in Denmark. Success!
Let’s spot-check… wait… https://www.iqair.com/us/uk/england/london/putney-weimar-street London is only at 9 micrograms. I guess that’s still double mine. Let’s be fair and pick the worst part in Seattle: https://www.iqair.com/us/usa/washington/seattle/overlook-at-magnolia still 5.8 micrograms. Let’s try one more time in Germany, It seems like any place in Germany will be above a 10. https://www.iqair.com/us/germany/nordrhein-westfalen/koln/rodenkirchen it’s 5.
So maybe this is a time when Western Washington is on par with Europe? Is IQAir not a great source?
Probably due to the relative density of emitters
I live in the middle of nowhere in the Southeast, and apparently my area has a score of 12.