Pollution Could Cut Children's Lives By 7 Months

[dave50]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-48907879
Seven months? Is that all? When I first started reading this I thought they were going to be talking about years. What a ridiculous over the top reaction.

[youngmafbog]

Pollution is a major problem for anyone with respiratory problems like asthma. There lives are likely to be cut short by much more but 7 months is likely to be an average guess.

There is no denying pollution is a problem though.

[agchristie]

//King's College London researchers say that an eight-year-old born in 2011 may die between two to seven months early if exposed to projected future levels throughout their lifetime.//

I don't suppose an individual would lose any sleep over losing up to 7 months on an innings of 80+...

[douglas9401]

Awful lot of use of the word 'could' in there.

Good that the climate emergency is almost over though, take a back seat methane, there's a new kid in town.

[youngmafbog]

The thing is Douglas, whilst climate change can be argued against as it is all projections there is no argument about pollution. IT can be accurately measured and ther is factual evidence of it being a killer for those of us with respiratory problems.

That's why I am surprised it has never been grasped before as a mantle for change (as I have said on here many times)

[ToraToraTora]

YMB is correct, stop focusing on what we can't affect and clean up the world. Pollution is bad, full stop. Now it may well take months of the lives of the saucepans but I reckon living on junk food etc is probably worse. I imagine 25 hours a day playing games and Twitface etc doesn't help either.

[spathiphyllum]

A recent study showed that kids who walk to school are exposed to higher pollution levels than kids that are driven into schools. Also, the average height of a school child is the perfect height to be negatively affected by exhaust fumes.

Electric cars are our only answer for this issue.

[Old_Geezer]

Young families not opting to live in inner city areas may help too.

[jim360]

This is an average over the entire population -- the point is that some children may well die years earlier than they otherwise would. Even though many children won't be adversely affected it's still a huge problem for those who are.

[spathiphyllum]

Apparently living in London is the equivalent to living in the countryside and smoking 15 a day.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/londons-air-as-bad-as-smoking-6959600.html