Last week, Toronto had the worst air quality of any major city in the world. I’m writing this week’s newsletter under those same smoke-filled skies.
☀️ Good news: Solar is now so affordable in Australia that three states now offer a free window of electricity midday.
🔥 Not-so-good news: Nearly 900 wildfires are burning across Canada and a new study estimates $23 billion per year in health impacts … yet the government just approved a new pipeline to carry a million barrels of oil a day for decades to come.
🌬️ What you can do: If the smoke has reached you, stay inside, seal your windows, make or buy a HEPA air purifier, wear an N95 if you have to go out – and let your elected officials know why this is happening and what they can do about it!
Thank you to Anne Cloud with Voice Over for the Planet (https://voiceoverfortheplanet.com/) for narrating this edition of Talking Climate.
Post-production and mix by John Crowley at Loudmouth Studio (https://www.loudmouthstudio.com/) .
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