Thankfully right now it is good, but some days it can get really bad here (Denver). The issue is because we are right at the foot of huge mountains, so often the wind coming off the mountains pushes the air down and traps it so pollution gets stuck and we call it "the brown cloud." There have been days where we rank worse than the famously polluted cities in China, not because we have that many factories but just because it is stuck (and sometimes because of wildfires).
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It's sad that your geo-location puts you in such a predicament. It's like you suffer more for the rest of our sins. Eventually we're all gonna suffer if we don't actively take steps to make the world cleaner.
I hope you're having a great day in Denver nonetheless 😊
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Pollution does not have a geo boundary...even though it is concentrated in one location and with direct repercussions, in the long run, it makes the entire globe equitable...So it's up to Human civilization to respond with prudence.
Right! Pollution is often thought of as a local issue, until the winds shift or there are large fires or something, and then suddenly people who normally have a clean neighborhood are suffering and realize what others have had to put up with for years. I think the lockdown times from the pandemic showed some people really how bad it is, because the air cleaned up in places where it hadn't been so for a long time due to factories being shut down. Hopefully it motivated more people to keep things clean long term.
That's because of the katabatic wind and anabatic wind. Mostly seasonal.