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   Sharon Machlis (smach@masto.machlis.com)'s status on Thursday, 23-May-2024 02:42:41 JST Sharon Machlis

   #Climate threat not often discussed:
   “Pound for pound, gallon for gallon, hour-for-hour, the two-stroke gas powered engines in leaf blowers and similar equipment are vastly the dirtiest and most polluting kind of machinery still in legal use.

   “According to the California Air Resources Board (CARB), the two-stroke leaf blowers and similar equipment in the state produce more ozone pollution than all of California’s tens of millions of cars, combined.”
   - James Fallows

   https://fallows.substack.com/p/gas-powered-leaf-blowers-the-end

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     asbestos (asbestos@toot.community)'s status on Thursday, 23-May-2024 02:51:31 JST asbestos

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     @bmacDonald94
     They are the perfect example of "but it's just a tiny engine"
     Yes, if hardly anyone had them it wouldn't be an issue. .
     Right winger always use this stuff to make any positive change seem ridiculous.

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     Darrin West (obviousdwest@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 23-May-2024 03:00:57 JST Darrin West

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     @bmacDonald94 @asbestos @smach Times 150 million. https://wheredotheymakeit.com/leaf-blowers-made-in-usa/

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     asbestos (asbestos@toot.community)'s status on Thursday, 23-May-2024 07:35:40 JST asbestos

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     @smach

     The worst part of it in the world constant but irregular revving of the leaf blowers.
     Ugh.

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     Sharon Machlis (smach@masto.machlis.com)'s status on Thursday, 23-May-2024 09:38:07 JST Sharon Machlis

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     • Darrin West

     @obviousdwest @bmacDonald94 @asbestos It has never made sense to me that moving leaves around should be so much louder than moving people around.