Offloading the burden and cost to the victims is just awful.
Easier for everyone if those “busy roads” were converted into something more human/health/environmentally friendly.
That’s how externalities work…
You can lobby your government and hope they help you, which is mostly a futile exercise but still got to be done
Or you put a fucking hepa filter in your house… Which should already have anyway if you care about air quality to any degree.
Anything decent is 500 bucks tho and 30 bucks per years in filters but this your own families health.
You chocie tho
Most people can’t even afford their own house, let alone installing filtration. My area has been covered in wildfire smoke recently. My apartment has no AC. I get to choose breathing in the smoke and having some cooling from outside, or breath slightly less smoke but swelter in the heat.
Interesting, would changing the busy road to a pedestrianised street give the same effect or better?
What and make people breathe in the stench of BO and feet?
Here’s a free (except for materials ofc) DIY peer reviewed Design.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corsi-Rosenthal_Box
It also significantly lowers COVID spread which is always nice.
I’ve heard that housefresh.com is a good source of legit reviews, for anyone looking for an air purifier.
Interesting. I suppose it’s good to have a hepa filter indoors anyway. You don’t want to know how much dust comes off your synthetic clothing and that’s all microplastic you’re breathing.
