I was curious to see how the air quality in NYC this week compares to Sydney during the 2019 bush fires. I’m seeing in news stories that the AQI in NY was close to 500 this week… and in 2019 parts of Sydney were over 1000. (Source: https://amp.abc.net.au/article/11782892) Photo below was taken by me from the AWS office in Dec 2019. I remember we were all wearing N95 masks and buying air purifiers, and the smoke permeated everything. (It honestly prompted part of Rodd’s and my decision to move to Germany for a while.) Get used to it folks – this is climate change, and it’s not going to improve unless we take action NOW.