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The dangers of breathing wildfire smoke
I was walking my son to school last week when he asked why the air outside smelled like a campfire. I explained that it was the result of forest fires that were burning hundreds of kilometres away – a concept that I suspect he had trouble fully grasping, likely because it’s been difficult for most of us to wrap our heads around the enormity of the fires and our planet’s climate crisis.
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