Link: https://insideclimatenews.org/news/07082026/wildfire-smoke-pollution-prenatal-threat/

Prenatal exposure to wildfire smoke significantly increases the likelihood that babies will be born too early or too small, raising their risk of dying early or developing chronic respiratory conditions and other diseases later in life.

https://sh.itjust.works/post/64535091

To consider it in the bluntest of terms, wildfires kill surprisingly few people: perhaps hundreds around the world each year, compared to thousands from floods and hundreds of thousands from heatwaves. That is, of course, of little comfort to the people across Spain and France returning to burned-out homes, or to the families of firefighters, locals and tourists who have died in the past few weeks. But what scares me far more is the smoke. Recent studies peg the global death toll from wildfire smoke at 1.5 million people per year.

9 million a year die from starvation, another 9 million for air pollution, I think it's safe to assert we really don't give a fuck.

Masks like the one the woman is wearing in the photo do nothing to alleviate it as well. Needs to be K/N95 or a
P100. Those blue ones that are synonymous with COVID do nothing for particulate matter.

Of course I care. I bought some bumper stickers for my car to show how much I care. Cool, now that you know that I am a good person I can continue to ignore everything around me and pretend that it's fiiiiiine.

*starts their combustion engine for the sixth time today because they forgot to stop at Big Box Store™ on their way home from the shitty job they took to pay for the combustion engine