And just in case the hard of thinking can't make the link;
A new Oxford University collaboration has shed light on the damaging health consequences of Britain’s car addiction – revealing that it is likely costing our NHS and society in general more than £6 billion per year.
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You won't get an argument from me about air pollution.
However, 9 out of 10 internet statistics are actually fake. Like the one i've just posted!
On a more serious note. It's pretty obvious breathing in car exhaust fumes can never be good for you.
Add other industrial pollution and it is a serious risk to health.
But there is a problem.
The standards of living and the abundance of food (at least here) is due to the very thing some want to ban.
Believe or not, if JSO got their way on all their demands, society would actually collapse. Mass famine and the collapse of infrastructure would soon follow.
Most wouldn't believe the fine line we are already running between success and failure as a species.
Two days without bread and petrol a few years ago had people fighting the streets and mums fighting over bread at Tesco. Don't get me started about the "toilet roll" thing. Some of them would be happy if we went back to the dark ages. Not going to happen.
So just banning everything is never going to work. We need good and genuine alternatives.
Solar/wind and other renewables are already growing at a rapid pace. Electric vehicles are now on the roads.
Gardening equipment is now largely battery instead of two stroke petrol. Another good example of people trying to adapt as long as there is an alternative.
Groups like that will just keep pushing no matter what people do. They have already started on electric cars, saying rubber pollution coming off tyres is a big issue...FFS!
So no, we cannot "Just stop Oil". But we can wean ourselves off it over time.
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