foul air

In addition to the social stigma, such work can be extremely dangerous: In enclosed spaces, human waste can create a mix of toxic gases, which can result in loss of consciousness and death for those forced to breathe in the foul air for extended periods.

The poor who reside in the city's slums and shanties, alongside millions of daily wage workers, roadside vendors and traffic policemen who work outdoors, are condemned to breathe the foul air.

More likely, the Stanford student became one of the burgeoning army of civil liberties lawyers and sociologists and environmental policymakers and social engineers whose distaste for racial segregation, foul water and foul air — and for all the other excesses of capitalism — came to dominate the federal government in the 1970s.

We still shamefully exploit them — during the pandemic, in a summer thick with wildfire smoke, I spent some time with farmworkers in Stockton who were being evicted, despite rules that should have protected them, despite continuing to show up for work every day in that foul air, thick with pollution and COVID-19.

“You,” said Akimi, pointing at Kyle with one hand while swatting at the foul air and buzzing flies with the other.