A Push for Diesel Leaves London Gasping Amid Record Pollution
Anna Heslop said that No one at the time thought of the consequences of increased nitrogen dioxide emissions from diesel,
and the policy of incentivizing diesel was so successful that an awful lot of people bought diesel cars,
London last month was put on a "very high" pollution alert for the first time ever, as cold air
and a stationary weather pattern failed to clear the toxic air caused by diesel traffic, as well as by the high use of open fires, which contribute to about 10 percent of pollutants in winter months.
Air pollution is a more significant public health hazard in China, India and Eastern Europe, where the average annual levels of PM2.5 pollution, the fine soot particles and molecules
that pose the greatest danger to health, are up to 10 times as high as in London.
It’s pernicious." London is choking from record levels of pollution, much of it caused by diesel cars
and trucks, as well as wood-burning fires in private homes, a growing trend.
London has encouraged people to use bicycles more,
but there is a growing debate over whether bike lanes make congestion and pollution worse by forcing more cars into fewer lanes and increasing the amount of time they remain stationary.
In Ms. Carey’s view, she said the only reasonable explanation for her illness was the pollution to which she was exposed
over the last six years cycling through thick traffic on Brixton Road, one of London’s busiest and most noxious routes.
Miller said that We were told how wonderful diesel is, how they were supposed to be cleaner than petrol,