Your gas stove is polluting your own home. Go electric | Brady Seals

Gas stoves can produce air pollution levels indoors that would be illegal outsideI traveled around the developing world for more than a decade seeing and studying first-hand the damage that wood and charcoal do to the lungs of people – mostly women and children – who use it for cooking. Nearly half the world’s population cooks with solid fuels, and I was proud of my work to bring cleaner options and help prevent pneumonia, lung disease and other effects of breathing in smoke on a daily basis.And when I got home from these trips, I would turn on my gas stove to cook meals – never once guessing that the invisible gas piped into my house, and its similarly invisible emissions, were also harmful.Continue reading...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - Category: Science Authors: Tags: Science Environment Climate change Climate crisis Source Type: news