“Now we must see emergency action from all levels of government: the prime minister, the mayor and every local council, to eliminate the sources of deadly air pollution.”
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There's an interesting comment on 'safe' levels of air pollution in a letter to the Guardian which the author copied to the Sustainable Haringey mailing list:
Dear Guardian,
Week after week, the air pollution forecasts published on your invaluable Weather page tell us pollution will be unalarmingly 'low', shown in nice clean green -- even while your news coverage tells us that air pollution is killing nearly 10,000 Londoners a year, and 36,000 across the UK. The Kissi-Debrah judgement shows starkly how misleading are these forecasts, based on the inadequate UK-EU legal levels. Only when levels of all the pollutants fall within the World Health Organisation recommended (guideline) levels should air pollution be called 'low' or depicted as green. When any pollutant exceeds WHO levels, but all remain within legal limits, the term 'moderate' might be used -- depicted as either amber or grey-scale. If any pollutant exceeds legal limits, then pollution is high -- red or black. Can you, and other news media, please refuse to publish the current air pollution forecast misinformation!
We also need Government roadside information: real-time electronic read-outs of pollutant levels, colour-coded to show exceedances. Plus roadside posters on the lines: "Your car fumes are killing me", "Pollution's bad along this road -- and 10-15 times worse inside your car with engine running".
Yours etc,
Judith Hanna