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a breath of fresh air
I read John Lorinc’s “The Air We Share” (December 2022) in a multistorey convention centre and hotel complex filled with tens of thousands of scientists, including many air quality specialists. As I sat through talks on subjects ranging from the patterns of pollution in crowded classrooms to the persistence of wildfire smoke in affected homes, I thought about how the size of the indoor air quality community is dwarfed by the number of those studying the outdoors, myself included. This is despite the fact that, according to a 2019 study led by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, in the global ranking of risk factors for death, household air pollution is number nine, only three places behind outdoor air pollution. Lorinc explains the reasons for this imbalance and highlights the opportunity we have to promote healthy buildings and communities with fresh thinking on fresh air.
