This episode features  an edited version of the recent Airwatch zoom meeting,  presented by Blue Mountains Unions Council and the Blue Mountains Environment Sustainability Network, to discuss the ongoing campaign of the Lithgow and Blue Mountains AirWatch.  The meeting focuses on the quality of the air we breathe, and  presents new evidence showing that when the air becomes polluted by bushfire smoke containing fine toxic particles, it becomes a killer.  As Peter Lammiman,  organiser and host of the meeting says "It’s not the bushfires that kill people it’s the smoke afterwards, with over 400 people dying from smoke inhalation on the eastern seaboard during and after the “black summer” of 2019-20".  The first speaker is Julie Favell,  from the Lithgow Environment Group,  followed by Maggie Davidson,  adjunct lecturer in Environmental Health and Occupational Hygiene from the School of Sciences at Western Sydney University, and the final speaker, Natasha Flores,  is the industrial officer at Unions New South Wales. 
This episode was first broadcast on Radio Blue Mountains 89.1FM on 22/10/2021. Rights, Rorts and Rants is broadcast from 4pm to 6pm on 89.1FM or can be live streamed from rbm.org.au. If you'd like to add to the discussion, you can leave an audio comment about our show, which may be added to one of our podcasts..Apply to be a guest on our show. Join BMUC.
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