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by pstrateman 2107 days ago
Generally when people are talking about pollutants they're talking about man made pollutants.
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0x2a 2107 days ago
WHO includes smoke in their overview page on air pollution as does Wikipedia.

- https://www.who.int/health-topics/air-pollution

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_pollution#Sources

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pstrateman 2107 days ago
Most smoke that is air pollution is caused by farmers burning crops.

You can include smoke in air pollution numbers, while not considering wild fires to be pollution.

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bamboozled 2107 days ago
As climate change was a key driver of these fires and those in Australia earlier this year, then I feel like it's perfectly reasonable to say this is man made pollution.

Coal and oil are also a "natural" fuels, but we burn those too and we say it's man made pollution.

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