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A Feb. 6 online article from The Guardian by Adrienne Matei, entitled Dust Busters: What's Really in Household Dust and How to Get Rid of it, highlighted the prevalence of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons generated by wildfire exposure, car exhaust and other things.
Researcher Aurelie Laguerre asserts that these compounds remain hazardous for 40 days and can contribute to lung, skin and bladder cancers, in addition to kidney and liver damage, jaundice, cataracts. They cause mutagens, which she defined as creating genetic mutations and affect fetal development.
As I frequently walk through a large parking lot near my home, there are food trucks parked nearby, and I frequently encounter running vehicles with people sitting in them with their windows rolled up. I often stop and ask the drivers to please turn their cars and trucks off as they're polluting.
Some people are agreeable but others swear at me, sometimes revving their engines while giving me stink eye or making insulting remarks.
I challenge these nonbelievers to examine your tailpipes when your car is turned off and cool. That black substance lining the inside is from the PHAs, poisons that spew out of your car.
Eh, no talk stink. No ak stink. No spew stink, people. Please turn off your car and open your windows if you need more air circulating while you're sitting in the parking lots.
The birds, bees, people, dust in your house will all benefit from a simple twist of your wrist.
Kathleen Platt
Kula Malu