Surprise! London's tax on polluting vehicles made everyone much healthier
Surprise! London's tax on polluting vehicles made everyone much healthier
Expansion of London's Ultra-Low Emissions Zone led to a drastic decrease in pollution, and increased air quality in every part of the city.
The ban of indoor smoking in bars and restaurants immediately and sharply dropped the number of heart attacks in service personnel.
Medical research may be on to something.
In “deprived communities,” which tend to see the most pollution in the first place, there’s been an 80% reduction in people exposed to illegal levels of pollution.
Oi m8, you got a loicense to inhale this level of pollution? /s
Jokes aside this is great news and exactly the intent of the ULEZ policy.
This is important because prior to the report’s period, some 4,000 people died in London each year due to toxic air pollution.
Holy shit
I've always wondered how they come up with these stats. Because generally speaking, nobody died from acute polution poisoning or whatever. It must include things like a percentage of asthma related deaths and what not.
Air pollution: Coroner calls for law change after Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah's death:
An inquest had found air pollution "made a material contribution" to her death.... Ella was the first person in the UK to have air pollution listed as the cause of death on their death certificate, following the inquest ruling ...
Can confirm: the air in London is pretty terrible.
Nobody could possibly have foreseen this! Scientists are baffled!