'Our Government must not remain blind to the thick haze, and senseless to the putrid smell of toxic pollution clogging our airways. Clean air isn’t, and should never be, just a 'nice-to-have'.' ✍️ CarolineLucas writes for MetroOpinion
It is early December 1952, and a thick cloud descends overBut this is no ordinary gloomy winter’s day in the capital. It’s a toxic, suffocating smoke – the Great Smog – which will go down in the city’s history as the worst of its kind.
Now, 70 years on, you might expect that things had vastly improved from a time when coal-fired power stations peppered the skyline, and London was much more of an industrial manufacturing hub than it is today. But today’s statistics make grim reading. This is why Jenny Jones, my Green Party colleague in the House of Lords, is proposing a Bill called Ella’s Law, which would make clean air a human right – enshrined explicitly in UK law.
This Bill has already passed through initial stages in the Lords with overwhelming support, and it is set to soon head to the House of Commons – where I will be championing it wholeheartedly, and urging the Government to throw its weight behind it. Tackling high pollution is a nationwide, and a worldwide, issue. Around 97% of UK homes are subjected to air pollution above WHO guidelines.The number of people killed by long-term exposure to air pollution in the UK is estimated to be as high as 36,000 a year.
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