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The hidden toll of July Fourth fireworks
National Geographic ^ | JULY 2, 2021 | MADELEINE STONE

Posted on 07/04/2021 9:52:57 AM PDT by Bloodandgravy

It’s no secret that fireworks can cause some serious air pollution, in the United States as well as in other countries where holiday displays are common, like China and India. But not everyone is equally at risk from the noxious particles that suffuse the sky during our pyrotechnic light shows. In California, for example, vulnerable populations are more exposed to fireworks pollution on the Fourth of July.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: fireworks; independenceday
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I think we should shoot fireworks all year long.
1 posted on 07/04/2021 9:52:57 AM PDT by Bloodandgravy
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To: Bloodandgravy

It’s the “vulnerable populations” that spend the most on fireworks and detonate them 24/7 for weeks prior to and after July 4th.

I personally don’t believe in burning money, but that’s just me.


2 posted on 07/04/2021 9:55:55 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong)
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To: Bloodandgravy

So when are they going to do a story on “The Hidden Toll of socialists on Societies They Infest”?


3 posted on 07/04/2021 9:56:34 AM PDT by curious7
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To: Bloodandgravy
WTF is a "vulnerable population?

Note how neo commies and hyper-Karens want to end fireworks and July 4 altogether.

4 posted on 07/04/2021 9:57:15 AM PDT by AAABEST (NY/DC/LA media/political/military industrial complex DELENDA EST)
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To: Bloodandgravy

There are glass-half-full sorts of people, and then there those that would throw the glass angrily on the floor, so they can complain about the mess it can make.


5 posted on 07/04/2021 9:58:13 AM PDT by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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To: Bloodandgravy

For cryin’ out loud - they never stop, do they?


6 posted on 07/04/2021 9:58:18 AM PDT by dainbramaged ( Your friends might get me in a rush, but not before I make your head into a canoe.)
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To: Bloodandgravy

This female fool cannot be serious. These kinds of people suffer from very disastrous mental deficiencies.


7 posted on 07/04/2021 9:58:41 AM PDT by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Peanut Butter doesn't offset shootings, killings, drugs, riots, and lootings and burnings by BLM.)
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To: Bloodandgravy

Liberals. The party of no fun.

(Except sex and drugs, which they adore.)

Very good preview of communism.


8 posted on 07/04/2021 9:58:44 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs. I )
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To: Bloodandgravy

Okay...I can understand OTHER problems associated with fireworks.
For instance, veterans who suffer from PTSD, and are set off by the explosions.
Animals who are freaked out by the explosions and louds sounds.
And in the exceptionally dry parts of the country, there’s also the danger of fires started by fireworks.

But under NO circumstances does it many ANY sense that POLLUTION would even be a factor in someone’s dislike of fireworks....unless they’re a veggie-eating`, tree-hugging, Biden-voting, America-hating FULL-BLOWN UTTER IDIOT!!!!


9 posted on 07/04/2021 9:59:11 AM PDT by hoagy62 (DTCM&OTTH)
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To: curious7

When their hell freezes.
Hopefully that is soon.


10 posted on 07/04/2021 10:00:45 AM PDT by rellic
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To: Bloodandgravy

This is exhibit #1 that National Geographic has gone completely crazy.

To be more descriptive of their content these days, I suggest they change their name to “The National Geographic Lampoon”.

By the way, note their comment “...vulnerable populations are more exposed to fireworks pollution on the Fourth of July”. That’s a subtle playing of the race card. Fireworks are now racist, it seems.


11 posted on 07/04/2021 10:02:09 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: AAABEST
WTF is a "vulnerable population?

Anyone who lives in a democrat controlled metropolitan area.

12 posted on 07/04/2021 10:05:37 AM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (Dementia Joe is Not My President!)
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To: Bloodandgravy

One year, Grandma had us tie like a hundred rockets to her wheelchair.

Melted the spokes, but she was 300 feet in the air so it didn’t matter.


13 posted on 07/04/2021 10:07:01 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: AAABEST
WTF is a "vulnerable population?

It's pretty clear. Fireworks (like everything else) are raaaaaaaaaaaaaacist. It's like the California Prop 65 warning where every single substance on the earth is a “chemical known to the state of California to cause cancer, birth defects or reproductive harm”, everything is racist.

14 posted on 07/04/2021 10:11:06 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Police should refuse duty at NBA venues. Let them wallow in their desired chaos without police.)
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To: Bloodandgravy

That explains it. Disney owns a large portion of it.


15 posted on 07/04/2021 10:11:22 AM PDT by Bloodandgravy (The mob is the mother of tyrants)
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Oh, effin grow up...


16 posted on 07/04/2021 10:13:56 AM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: Leaning Right

Well blooming flowers are also known as oh never-mind


17 posted on 07/04/2021 10:13:58 AM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom Hi Dad)
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To: Bloodandgravy

Fireworks are ray-ciss.


18 posted on 07/04/2021 10:23:03 AM PDT by Signalman
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

It’s not burning it. It’s sending it to China.


19 posted on 07/04/2021 10:23:29 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Bloodandgravy

Wish I could figure out how to post pic of the author
“She” looks exactly how you’d think she would, crazy lib lbgtzqz


20 posted on 07/04/2021 10:24:11 AM PDT by rainee (Trump won!)
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