Guardian investigation finds 98% of Europeans breathing highly damaging polluted air linked to 400,000 deaths a year

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    I predict that nothing will change, we will carry on breathing polluted air, the situation will get worse but still, nothing will change.

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      Germans would say “Tja”, shrug and then drive with their unnecessarily big car to the bakery which is around the corner to buy some Mettwurstbrötchen. Sitting then with their friends at a Stammtisch over a beer and talk angrily about how people need to change something before they fall into bed and forget about it.

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      We will vote for the same people, keep buying iPhones, and get distracted by stupid shit. As is customary.

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      Wood stoves are a major problem. As soon as it gets cold in Germany, air pollution rises from below 5µg/m^3 to 20-100 µg/m^3 and stays there for months (in this particular area).

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        Dang. In wildfire season here in western Canada, my air filter gets brought out well before the 100 mark.

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        Somebody should tell them about the toasty glow of atomic energy.

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        As someone who lives in a wood-heated house, what do you suggest I do? I’d rather not freeze to death and I can’t afford any other heating options

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    Question is, how much do you trust the Guardian to do a proper research.

    They claim no area of Sweden has twice the recommended value, but there are clearly orange/red areas near the very south near Helsingborg.

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        I was thinking of Malmø with i said Helsingborg, which is further north ofc. Copenhagen is big (by Nordic standards), cramped and old. No wonder it has worse air.