A Memory Of Clean Skies In The South Of Chile
Personal memory by Carlos Junod
2016 CE • Temuco, Temuco, Araucania, Chile
"When I was a kid, I was able to appreciate beautiful and clean skies of Temuco city, my hometown which is a small town in the south of Chile. Sadly with the increasing population and the severe winters the people started to use wood-burning stoves as the primary heating solution, this transformed Temuco each winter in a gray and ugly city. What is more, nowadays Temuco is a dangerous place to live, with people dying from respiratory diseases."
Image: Héctor Montero, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
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