During my grade school years I lived at around 5000 ft or 1500 meters elevation next to mountains that were much higher. The heating fuel for most people in the area was coal. On cold winter days acrid coal smoke hung in the air.
We do better now but not good enough.
The mid twentieth century mindset of industrial excess is disappearing fast. I will not pay for the climate recklessness of my lifetime. A billion other people will pay instead.