Re:A little-known pollution rule keeps the air dirty for mil...
by rob74 on Monday October 16, 2023 @09:51AM
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And that desire for control leads humans to suppress small fires, which then leads them to build settlements literally in the middle of the forest and to neglect trimming trees around power lines because fires are kept under control, until, because of drought caused by climate change it's not possible to keep them under control anymore, and then you get huge fires which cause pollution thousands of miles away (and the destruction of the settlements in the middle of the forest and also some which were previously thought at a safe distance)...
Extinctions are a very natural thing, too. Polio is natural. Smallpox was. Humans tend to want some control over the environment they live in.
> Shouldn't the focus be more on what industry is doing to the air and water and soil, and what we seem to be inadvertently supporting with the present lifestyle?
"Is the air clean" statistics should reflect if the air is clean, as a variety of decisions on ventilation, filtration, etc. rely on it. "Is the air polluted by humans" is a different question.