What is the answer to pollution ?

[Bill Walker]

More & More traffic on UK roads and yet;

Air pollution causes 29,000 early deaths a year in the UK and the World Health Organisation has confirmed that air pollution causes cancer. Poor air quality also causes heart attacks and children living near busy roads in the UK have been shown to grow up with underdeveloped lungs.

Air pollution: European commission launches legal action against the UK
Britain faces fines and court appearances for failing to reduce 'excessive' levels of nitrogen dioxide fumes from traffic


<a class="postlink" href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/feb/20/air-pollution-european-commission-legal-action-uk-nitrogen-dioxide" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.theguardian.com/environment/ ... en-dioxide</a>

 

[metalblue]

More roads.

Cars themselves are getting cleaner/more efficient although will always be at their most inefficient when crawling along / stationary. Hybrid cars are great but will be a while before they are top of everyone's shopping list.

 

[drthingy]

Close all roads and make everyone cycle.

 

[Gaylord du Bois]

On the upside that's 29,000 less people on the roads.

 

[Blue Til Death]

More & More traffic on UK roads and yet;

Air pollution causes 29,000 early deaths a year in the UK and the World Health Organisation has confirmed that air pollution causes cancer. Poor air quality also causes heart attacks and children living near busy roads in the UK have been shown to grow up with underdeveloped lungs.

Air pollution: European commission launches legal action against the UK
Britain faces fines and court appearances for failing to reduce 'excessive' levels of nitrogen dioxide fumes from traffic


<a class="postlink" href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/feb/20/air-pollution-european-commission-legal-action-uk-nitrogen-dioxide" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.theguardian.com/environment/ ... en-dioxide</a>

The solution to pollution is very, very simple, the implementation however is nigh on impossible, at least in the short term.

 

[Dicko69]

What can little britain do that would make a huge amount of difference to global pollution when usa, china india and the like are doing nothing about it

 

[Gaylord du Bois]

What can little britain do that would make a huge amount of difference to global pollution when usa, china india and the like are doing nothing about it

Just keep putting your recycling out and pray for rain, bruv.

 

[brass neck]

There is a number of practical solutions that with propper investment could be sorted but unfortunately they also mean very large industry will stop making a killing so therefore they will never happen.

 

[urmston]

Get rid of diesel cars. Even modern ones are very polluting compared to petrol ones.

The skinflints who buy these vehicles in order to make long term savings on fuel are responsible for huge amounts of the most damaging pollution in our cities.

The government is partly to blame for imposing a low VED on many diesel cars just because they have good fuel consumption.

Diesel cars used to be extremely rare. We need to go back to that.

 

[Dicko69]

Get rid of diesel cars. Even modern ones are very polluting compared to petrol ones.

The skinflints who buy these vehicles in order to make long term savings on fuel are responsible for huge amounts of the most damaging pollution in our cities.

The government is partly to blame for imposing a low VED on many diesel cars just because they have good fuel consumption.

Diesel cars used to be extremely rare. We need to go back to that.

Have you seen the cars on the roads of the countries previously mentioned? Delhi on its own probably causes more pollution than britain