'We know from political science research that experiencing climate impacts like this can mobilize people to act politically on climate change,' said an environmental policy expert at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
But now those regions are in the thick of a massive plume of smoke originating from fires in Canadian provinces such as Ontario and Nova Scotia, which experts sayA man stands in the Empty Sky 911 Memorial in Jersey City, New Jersey looking towards the One World Trade Center tower in lower Manhattan as haze and smoke caused by wildfires in Canada hangs over the skyline, June 8, 2023.
“I’ve been working on air pollution and climate change advocacy for more than a decade and I’ve been seeing that, increasingly, we have to do less and less work to help people understand the connections between climate change and their health,” Laura Kate, national assistant vice president for healthy air at the American Lung Association, told Yahoo News.
There is some historical precedent for air pollution inspiring policy change. In 1952, four days of especially bad smog — caused largely by the soot from burning coal —, which galvanized public support for United Kingdom’s first Clean Air Act, passed in 1956.
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