It’s not a matter of if, but when, the next major wildfire will strike and a new Stanford study says we’re not ready to deal with the smoke.
The study looked at how we are asked to protect ourselves from the haze that comes with those massive fires and it found people's safety is far too likely to be linked to their economic status.
“Instead of trying to limit the existence of fires, policy makers have mostly just recommended that people protect themselves either through staying indoors or by turning on air purifiers so we were interested in looking at how effective those recommendations were,” said Sam Heft-Neal of the Center on Food Security and the Environment.
With the help of social media data from English and Spanish-speaking communities, Stanford scholar Heft-Neal, and other scientists, found everyone in California is interested in air quality.
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