u/RandomisedTrial

So it's a beautiful early spring day in Victoria. The garden needs much work. I've been effectively indoors for months because my neighbours' smoke fills my garden from Easter to Footy Friday.

I take my asthma medicine and my prescription vitamin D tablets and I watch the medical oxygen delivery ban calling at the house all along the street. But i don't go outside because it makes me sick.

This is repeated across the county. Only 10% of homes nationwide have a wood heater, but they're impacting the health of their own family and everyone else within coo-ee. Lungs, heart, brain and digestive system are all affected and it's a leading cause of dementia. A domestic wood heater is 450x more polluting that a gas boiler; an open fire is worse than that.

Research in Tasmania: 'estimated the number of cases and health costs due to premature mortality, cardiorespiratory hospital admissions, and asthma emergency department (ED) visits. We estimated 69 deaths, 86 hospital admissions, and 15 asthma ED visits, each year, with over 74% of impacts attributed to wood fire smoke.'

Come on guys that's a lot 😵‍💫

Australia is rated 101 out of 131 countries for dirty air. And if we know anything, we know folks got to stop burning things!

In a sane world this would be fixed.

Obvs it's not a sane world, everyone's depressed, crazy, indifferent and wtaf else. Oh yeah, depression is another effect of breathing wood smoke. Basically, if you can smell a fire it's doing you harm.

I'd really like to just be able to mow the darned lawn once in a while. Or even sit out in it getting a bit of sunshine. As it is i can only garden on days of total fire ban. Not usually recommended to do hard yakka when it's 45 in the shade.

The health impacts and climate impacts of domestic wood stoves are undisputed. Still, nothing is done. We have the solutions. Nothing happens... except people continue to get sick and die prematurely.

OK so tell me, hive, what do we do?

So it's a beautiful early spring day in Victoria, Australia. The garden needs much work. I've been effectively indoors for months because my neighbours' smoke fills my garden from Easter to Footy Friday.

I take my asthma medicine and my prescription vitamin D tablets and I watch the medical oxygen delivery ban calling at the house all along the street. But i don't go outside because it makes me sick.

This is repeated across the county. Only 10% of homes nationwide have a wood heater, but they're impacting the health of their own family and everyone else within coo-ee. Lungs, heart, brain and digestive system are all affected and it's a leading cause of dementia. A domestic wood heater is 450x more polluting that a gas boiler; an open fire is worse than that.

Research in Tasmania: 'estimated the number of cases and health costs due to premature mortality, cardiorespiratory hospital admissions, and asthma emergency department (ED) visits. We estimated 69 deaths, 86 hospital admissions, and 15 asthma ED visits, each year, with over 74% of impacts attributed to wood fire smoke.'

Come on guys that's a lot 😵‍💫

Australia is rated 101 out of 131 countries for dirty air. And if we know anything, we know folks got to stop burning things!

In a sane world this would be fixed.

Obvs it's not a sane world, everyone's depressed, crazy, indifferent and wtaf else. Oh yeah, depression is another effect of breathing wood smoke. Basically, if you can smell a fire it's doing you harm.

I'd really like to just be able to mow the darned lawn once in a while. Or even sit out in it getting a bit of sunshine. As it is i can only garden on days of total fire ban. Not usually recommended to do hard yakka when it's 45 in the shade.

The health impacts and climate impacts of domestic wood stoves are undisputed. Still, nothing is done. We have the solutions. Nothing happens... except people continue to get sick and die prematurely.

OK so tell me, hive, what do we do?