"Before you leave the house you ask yourself whether the air's going to make you cough or make your eyes stream or you have to spit," says Ms Jouvenceau, 24. "I leave earlier now when I go to work, so that I can walk slowly and of course I've stopped cycling or doing any sport." It's like this every year in the 105km-long (65-mile) Arve Valley, home to 150,000 people and surrounded by some of the world's most famous ski resorts - Megeve, Saint Gervais and Chamonix. In winter, this part of the Alps has the worst fine-particle pollution in France.Well! We need to get rid of those dirty cars and trucks and trains and nuclear power plants and exhaling humans! Stop pollution!
"The latest surveys show that between 60% and 80% of fine-particle pollution here comes from wood-burning stoves and fireplaces in people's homes," says Vincent Hazout, who recently organised a demonstration calling for action against air pollution.Whoopsie! Wood-burning is "carbon-neutral" by SCIENTIFIC definition, because wood-burning is COOL hippieshit energy. So wood-burning CAN'T be causing pollution by SCIENTIFIC definition. Thanks, Ralph!
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