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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

This is a graph depicting air pollution (PM2.5 concentrations) in London, UK, from 1850 to 2021. It includes a color-coded scale indicating levels of air quality, ranging from "Extremely Poor" to "Very Good." There's also a white line that shows the same information. The air quality level in London has been gradually getting worse since the start of the Industrial Revolution, improving drastically in the 1970s and continuing to the present day.
This is a graph depicting air pollution (PM2.5 concentrations) in Delhi, India, from 1850 to 2021. It includes a color-coded scale indicating levels of air quality, ranging from "Extremely Poor" to "Very Good." There's also a white line that shows the same information. The air quality was already quite poor since the industrial age, and has gotten significantly worse starting in the 1970s and is now extremely poor.
23 August at 19:00 | Open on mastodon.world
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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.

23 August at 19:31 | Open on kolektiva.social
rugk

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

23 August at 20:13 | Open on chaos.social
DieMadColonizer
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”

23 August at 22:57 | Open on mstdn.social
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