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David Ho

Behold air quality stripes; like climate stripes, but for the stuff that kills you directly.

The visualization shows how much clean air legislation, moving away from coal, and generally not setting carbon on fire improve air quality and reduce excess deaths.

airqualitystripes.info/stripes

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The Great Llama :fuck_verify:

@davidho
The one for Beijing seems pretty telling. Their changing policies are directly reflected in the numbers.

rugk

@davidho interestingly, why is the US so good? They also have no red stripes in there…

Darrien Glasser

@rugk @davidho we moved all of our manufacturing outside of the US during the Nixon and Reagan administrations. 3rd world countries are left to cope with work we exported so we could work at “non polluting office jobs”

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