{"id":5829,"date":"2019-10-09T09:44:25","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T06:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=5829"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:35","slug":"we-must-deal-with-smoke-pollution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/10\/09\/we-must-deal-with-smoke-pollution\/","title":{"rendered":"We Must Deal With Smoke Pollution"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By Business Daily<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Smog can creep up on you, slowly becoming a little more\nvisible, and a little more, until you just get used to the orange haze hanging\nin the air at end day. But last week someone sent me a video of the wind that\nswept into Nairobi during the evening commute, and while the leaves swirled and\nthe camera crackled from the wind, all that I could really see in that video\nwas a sudden shot on film of just how bad the smog in the city has become.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The air was thick and orange, with a proud sun behind coming close to setting for the day. No clouds, no rain, lots of wind, and dust and pollution, and actually a smoky fog of particulates: that we all breathe, into our lungs, where they do irreparable damage, shortening our life expectancy, making us sick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I sent pictures to my team of the pollution face masks\nworn long-since in most of Asia\u2019s most polluted cities, and now being banned in\nHong Kong because they stop people from being recognizable in street protests\nand other crimes. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessdailyafrica.com\/analysis\/columnists\/We-must-deal-with-smoke-pollution\/4259356-5303706-ok7c6fz\/index.html\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Business Daily Smog can creep up on you, slowly becoming a little more visible, and a little more, until you just get used to the orange haze hanging in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}