The wildfire smoke that has gripped several U.S. cities and states this week may be a watershed moment when it comes to the growing realization that climate change is a significant problem, experts say.
But now those regions are in the thick of a massive plume of smoke originating from fires in Canadian provinces such as Ontario and Nova Scotia, which experts say“I attended a play reading in Midtown [Manhattan] on Wednesday night,” Sergei Burbank, a 43-year-old New York City-based playwright, told Yahoo News.
“I’ve been working on air pollution and climate change advocacy for more than a decade and I’ve been seeing that, increasingly, we have to do less and less work to help people understand the connections between climate change and their health,” Laura Kate, national assistant vice president for healthy air at the American Lung Association, told Yahoo News.
There is some historical precedent for air pollution inspiring policy change. In 1952, four days of especially bad smog — caused largely by the soot from burning coal —, which galvanized public support for United Kingdom's first Clean Air Act, passed in 1956. Similar events in the United States led to the passage of the U.S.'s first environmental laws as well. As a result, American air consistently got cleaner for four decades, although that progress has been recently
, according to the American Lung Association's latest State of the Air, which gathers air monitoring data nationwide.“I think it will galvanize people right now, whether they’ll remember two weeks from now what happened is a different story,” Jacobson said.
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