this post was submitted on 28 Jul 2025
64 points (95.7% liked)

Australia

4412 readers
170 users here now

A place to discuss Australia and important Australian issues.

Before you post:

If you're posting anything related to:

If you're posting Australian News (not opinion or discussion pieces) post it to Australian News

Rules

This community is run under the rules of aussie.zone. In addition to those rules:

Banner Photo

Congratulations to @Tau@aussie.zone who had the most upvoted submission to our banner photo competition

Recommended and Related Communities

Be sure to check out and subscribe to our related communities on aussie.zone:

Plus other communities for sport and major cities.

https://aussie.zone/communities

Moderation

Since Kbin doesn't show Lemmy Moderators, I'll list them here. Also note that Kbin does not distinguish moderator comments.

Additionally, we have our instance admins: @lodion@aussie.zone and @Nath@aussie.zone

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
lodion@aussie.zone
Fluid@aussie.zone
bestusername@aussie.zone
eatham@aussie.zone
Nath@aussie.zone
64
Wood heater pollution is a silent killer. Here's where the smoke is worst (www.abc.net.au)
submitted 6 days ago by zero_gravitas@aussie.zone to c/australia@aussie.zone
38 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] NiftyShrimp@aussie.zone 5 points 5 days ago (6 children)

This is about as credible as the ANU study that said dozens of people were being killed in the ACT every year. It's a study commissioned, and written by the every people who have already decided that wood heaters are bad. If we are banning wood heaters, then we should ban fossil fuel cars as well. What a joke. This just stinks of "take away my privileges for my own good Daddy".

[–] zero_gravitas@aussie.zone 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

If we are banning wood heaters, then we should ban fossil fuel cars as well.

The article specifically mentions that fewer deaths are attributable to vehicle emissions than to wood heaters:

The Centre for Safe Air at the University of Tasmania estimates long-term exposure to wood-heater smoke causes 729 premature deaths every year in Australia, which is more than the deaths attributable to emissions from the national fleet of 20 million vehicles, or from energy generation, or even bushfires.

[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 1 points 15 hours ago

The article specifically mentions that fewer deaths are attributable to vehicle emissions than to wood heaters:

Calling bullshit on that number....

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02-24/air-pollution-modelling-university-of-melbourne-traffic/102015778

Traffic pollution likely causes more than 11,000 premature deaths in Australia a year,

load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments (4 replies)