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Is smoke not considered a pollutant? The list is just a ranking of current PM2.5 AQI levels.

• pstrateman 6y ago
  Generally when people are talking about pollutants they're talking about man made pollutants.
  • bamboozled 6y ago
    As climate change was a key driver of these fires and those in Australia earlier this year, then I feel like it's perfectly reasonable to say this is man made pollution. Coal and oil are also a "natural" fuels, but we burn those too and we say it's man made pollution.
  • 0x2a 6y ago
    WHO includes smoke in their overview page on air pollution as does Wikipedia. - https://www.who.int/health-topics/air-pollution https://www.who.int/health-topics/air-pollution - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_pollution#Sources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_pollution#Sources
    • pstrateman 6y ago
      Most smoke that is air pollution is caused by farmers burning crops. You can include smoke in air pollution numbers, while not considering wild fires to be pollution.
  • hnlurker 6y ago
    "Person-"made if you please. Lest we forget a major part of this year's season was induced at a "gender reveal party".