A stealthy cloud of pollution seeping into people’s lungs will be felt for years to come, says David Fickling for Bloomberg Opinion.
The Palisades Fire ravages a neighborhood amid high winds in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles , Jan. 7, 2025. ? The stealthy cloud of pollution seeping into people’s lungs many miles from the conflagration, which will be causing harm long after the last ember burns out.make an unforgettable symbol of the damage climate change is wreaking.
Even in California, it’s the pall of smoke that will do the most damage to human well-being. A drought-prone, densely populated strip of land strafed by seasonal winds which act like accelerants on a bushfire, it’s unusually prone to such disasters and their after-effects. In global terms, it’s not quite right to think that we’re heading into a century of fire, as some have warned.
Deforestation, meanwhile – one of the biggest drivers of wildfire globally – shows little sign of slowing down. Some 6.38 million hectares were lost in 2023, about 45 per cent more than we’d see if we were on track to eliminate the practice by 2030.Commentary: Singapore's climate action has been graded 'highly insufficient', but is that too harsh?
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