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    1 year ago

    As someone living in the Pacific Northwest, we deal with this every year and have seen no change in behavior around climate change. I’m honestly glad the rest of the country has to experience this, especially Washington DC. Maybe we’ll finally see some real action on climate change now.

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    1 year ago

    Last night was horrific here in NYC (still not great now). I’d invest in an air purifier right now if you don’t have one already

    edit: drastically worse than yesterday now.

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    1 year ago

    Chicagoland here. We’ve been getting air quality sheets for the past 1.5-2 weeks

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        1 year ago

        Except we need rain! But yeah - no smog/smoke that i can see. although i wonder if yesterday’s cloud cover had something to do with the wildfires.

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    1 year ago

    We are in an apocalypse of sorts, its just the slow motion kind that unfolds over decades, long enough for people to try to ignore it. Things get a little more hard to ignore when the sky is brown and the sun in red.

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    1 year ago

    I wish we did more prescribed burns up here. Things just get to a tipping point and then it’s insanity.