The real changes that needed done with regards to pollution should already have been done 20 years ago or at the very least today involve much larger scale things like dealing with corporate pollution. Stopping food and incense offerings at temples is just ridiculous.

"Green" has become a fad and a means to control groups that rarely have any meaningful impact on climate and climate change.

around any type of smoke for very long.

I will not, however, expect a thousands year old tradition to stop just to make a few feel better. I know how to adjust my needs in such a situation to the realities at hand.

Instead of these types of things, as someone with asthma, I wish the City of Phoenix would work to truly get rid of the brown cloud that hangs over the valley for much of the year whether as particulates or as ozone. This is real pollution that needs address, not a temple doing offerings.