24 points | by bookofjoe 4 days ago ago
7 comments
Pretty sure we all breathe unhealthy air, you can't get away from the hundreds of millions of automobiles flooding pubic space with pollution.
It varies wildly by state.
https://gispub.epa.gov/airnow/
It blows my mind just how much of our lives are made significantly worse by cars. Noise, air pollution, safety, freedom of travel, and health are all impacted. It's like an alien invasion by mechanical monsters slowly killing us all.
Related:
How safe is the air to breathe? 50M people in the US don't know - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43767898 - April 2025
https://archive.ph/2VxzX
So if the Canadian wildfires caused a lot of this, how bad are things in Canada?
During wildfires it’s really bad. Outside of that, much better due to less congestion
Pretty sure we all breathe unhealthy air, you can't get away from the hundreds of millions of automobiles flooding pubic space with pollution.
It varies wildly by state.
https://gispub.epa.gov/airnow/
It blows my mind just how much of our lives are made significantly worse by cars. Noise, air pollution, safety, freedom of travel, and health are all impacted. It's like an alien invasion by mechanical monsters slowly killing us all.
Related:
How safe is the air to breathe? 50M people in the US don't know - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43767898 - April 2025
https://archive.ph/2VxzX
So if the Canadian wildfires caused a lot of this, how bad are things in Canada?
During wildfires it’s really bad. Outside of that, much better due to less congestion