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Is breathing not essential these days?

That isn't a problem unless she's planning on mowing the pavement in North Street :facepalm:

There are many ways to tackle the issue, e.g.: Modal shift, i.e. getting people to use other forms of transport in the worst affected areas. This is seen as the key option in Lewes and they're looking at doing various things to encourage pedestrians such as introducing shared spaces as seen...

Millions are dying in excrutiating pain across the globe due to poor air quality, resulting in lung disease, heart disease, cancer, etc. Agree that these things are always sensationalisd, but people don't realise what a big killer air pollution is. When I say biggest killer, I mean as a root...

So what? The air pollution is TERRIBLE in china. They've even taken to putting pictures of a sunrise on a big screen in Beijing because people hardly ever get to see a real one. If you don't think this is newsworthy then I'd love to know what is.

Well actually it did, in a way. In London alone, 12,000 people were killed and 100,000 made ill due to air pollution between 5th and 9th December 1952.

I think you're thinking of ozone which is a very different problem.

As an Air Quality consultant... I think it's rather an odd thing for you to vent your spleen on. 29,000 deaths per year are caused directly by air pollution in the UK, including 5% of the deaths in Sussex and far far more than road traffic accidents. When there is a high pollution episode, it is...