TristanoAug 23, 2024
David Ho

Behold air quality stripes; like climate stripes, but for the stuff that kills you directly.

The visualization shows how much clean air legislation, moving away from coal, and generally not setting carbon on fire improve air quality and reduce excess deaths.

https://airqualitystripes.info/stripes/?continent=Europe&country=United%20Kingdom&city=London&plot=stripes

Air Quality Stripes

Aug 23, 2024 at 7:00pmWeb
Show threadThe Great Llama Aug 23, 2024
@davidho
The one for Beijing seems pretty telling. Their changing policies are directly reflected in the numbers.
Show threadrugkAug 23, 2024
@davidho interestingly, why is the US so good? They also have no red stripes in there…
Show threadDieMadColonizerAug 23, 2024
@rugk @davidho because other places are so bad.
Show threadDarrien GlasserAug 23, 2024
@rugk @davidho we moved all of our manufacturing outside of the US during the Nixon and Reagan administrations. 3rd world countries are left to cope with work we exported so we could work at “non polluting office jobs”
Show threadguentherAug 23, 2024

@davidho

for london, also see this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Smog_of_London

Great Smog of London - Wikipedia

Show threadCluster FckuAug 23, 2024
@davidho is the white curve the index or excess deaths? If the former, would be powerful visual to overlay excess deaths.
Show threadKai Rüsberg Aug 23, 2024
@davidho 2010 I had been living for one month in Delhi and wanted to stay for longer. But the bad air quality was so bad in November that I thought it would lead to depression staying there.
Show threadCaptain Jack SparrowAug 24, 2024

@davidho

So there's a chat for Exeter, but not for Hong Kong ?