Death from Air Pollution

[Secret Chief]

Air pollution death ruling: What comes next?

"For the first time in the UK - and possibly the world - air pollution has been recognised as a cause of a person's death.
.......
Although this decision does not have any binding impact on other courts, it is still important as the first formal legal recognition of air pollution as contributing to the death of a particular individual.
.......
That will help other individuals who want to press for greater action on air pollution. That could be action from public bodies which make decisions about polluting activities such as traffic and roads, or the public and private bodies which themselves cause major air pollution."


Thoughts?

 

[Altfish]

Air pollution death ruling: What comes next?

"For the first time in the UK - and possibly the world - air pollution has been recognised as a cause of a person's death.
.......
Although this decision does not have any binding impact on other courts, it is still important as the first formal legal recognition of air pollution as contributing to the death of a particular individual.
.......
That will help other individuals who want to press for greater action on air pollution. That could be action from public bodies which make decisions about polluting activities such as traffic and roads, or the public and private bodies which themselves cause major air pollution."


Thoughts?

It appears to be a somewhat landmark decision.
It will be interesting to see if it can be used to force councils to divert/mitigate roads in the future. It may force them to rethink electric cars - in particular their cost and infrastructure to support them.

We'll see - it is a Tory government

 

[Secret Chief]

It appears to be a somewhat landmark decision.
It will be interesting to see if it can be used to force councils to divert/mitigate roads in the future. It may force them to rethink electric cars - in particular their cost and infrastructure to support them.

We'll see - it is a Tory government

I agree it's a landmark and may have global effects. We just need a rich friend of the tories, maybe a jewellery designer, who wants to get into electric car manufacturing. Currently, the UK infrastructure support for electric vehicles is pathetic.

 

[Twilight Hue]

Air pollution death ruling: What comes next?

"For the first time in the UK - and possibly the world - air pollution has been recognised as a cause of a person's death.
.......
Although this decision does not have any binding impact on other courts, it is still important as the first formal legal recognition of air pollution as contributing to the death of a particular individual.
.......
That will help other individuals who want to press for greater action on air pollution. That could be action from public bodies which make decisions about polluting activities such as traffic and roads, or the public and private bodies which themselves cause major air pollution."


Thoughts?

Maybe we should all go back to the pre industrial age and ride horses and buggys.

 

[Wandering Monk]

I would love to see the etiology on a death certificate that lists air pollution as a cause of death.

 

[Secret Chief]

Maybe we should all go back to the pre industrial age and ride horses and buggys.

I'd prefer to go forward to a post oil and coal age.

 

[syo]

The human brain is poison. Pollution is a product of the poison brain. The seas are also polluted. And the dirt is full of poison chemicals. If you let loose the human brain poison, it's poison spreads. Typical.

 

[Secret Chief]

I would love to see the etiology on a death certificate that lists air pollution as a cause of death.

I see the coroner said the cause was multi-factorial, both genetic and environmental; but that air pollution made a material contribution to the death.

 

[ChristineM]

Maybe we should all go back to the pre industrial age and ride horses and buggys.

If you want.

This is not about recession but managing and improving what we have

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Thoughts?

About damn time.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Maybe we should all go back to the pre industrial age and ride horses and buggys.

Or we keep moving forward instead of going backwards.

 

[Yerda]

I'd prefer to go forward to a post oil and coal age.

Nope, either you drink our poison or you get back in the cave, peasant. These are the only options.

 

[Secret Chief]

Nope, either you drink our poison or you get back in the cave, peasant. These are the only options.

Fair enough.

 

[syo]

Fair enough.

Planet earth is doomed. Aliens do not travel near planet earth, they avoid the planet deliberately. I am sad for the animals. They are innocent, and if humans release nuclears like nuclear factories explode or nukes, oh boy.

 

[Secret Chief]

Planet earth is doomed. Aliens do not travel near planet earth, they avoid the planet deliberately. I am sad for the animals. They are innocent, and if humans release nuclears like nuclear factories explode or nukes, oh boy.

I'd avoid us too, and so should the rest of the animal kingdom.

 

[syo]

I'd avoid us too, and so should the rest of the animal kingdom.

If we keep being slaves to our stupid poison brain, we are the worst. Who loves poison mushrooms??? No one. Why humans love their poison brain so much that they are a slave to it???

 

[Wandering Monk]

Planet earth is doomed. Aliens do not travel near planet earth, they avoid the planet deliberately. I am sad for the animals. They are innocent, and if humans release nuclears like nuclear factories explode or nukes, oh boy.

The plan is for a galactic bypass. Earth will have to be removed for it.

 

[Twilight Hue]

If you want.

This is not about recession but managing and improving what we have

You must mean regression I think. Its exactly whats being touted here though.

What alternatives exist right now that equal or surpasses the energy and power potential we presently get from fossil fuels that we already use?

 

[ChristineM]

You must mean regression I think. Its exactly whats being touted here though.

What alternatives exist right now that equal or surpasses the energy and power potential we presently get from fossil fuels that we already use?

Both will do but i did mean what i said

Nothing but it ain't healthy as the op indicates (something that seems to go right over some people's heads) and it won't last. In the mean time as much as possible needs to be done to find solutions and denying and/or mocking the problem is not going to help save lives or the planet

 

[Secret Chief]

You must mean regression I think. Its exactly whats being touted here though.

What alternatives exist right now that equal or surpasses the energy and power potential we presently get from fossil fuels that we already use?

What do you recommend? Do nothing, change nothing, attempt nothing? Do you have any positive suggestions? Do you blithely accept our degradation of the land, sea and air?