Clearing the AirTim Smedley
Clearing the Air
by Tim Smedley · first published 2019
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Air pollution has become the world's greatest environmental health risk, and science is only beginning to reveal its wide-ranging effects. Globally, 19,000 people die each day from air pollution, killing more than HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and car accidents combined. What happened to the air we breathe? Sustainability journalist Tim Smedley has travelled the world to try and find the answer, visiting cities at the forefront of the fight against air pollution, including Delhi, Beijing, London and Paris. With insights from the scientists and politicians leading the battle against it, and p
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I recently finished reading Clearing the Air: The Beginning and the End of Air Pollution by Tim Smedley, which is excellent and well worth a read if you are interested in this area. https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/clearing-the-air-9781472953339...…
on “The first person in the UK to have air pollution listed as a cause of death” ↗…info on building a cheap ~$20 purifier here: https://airpollutionguide.net/ I haven't tried as cheap HEPA filters appear to be harder to get hold of in the UK. Maybe due to different heating systems. Clearing the Air: The Beginning and the End of Air Pollution by Tim Smedley is an excellent book if you are interested in this area.
on “Experiments on a $50 DIY air purifier that takes 30s to assemble” ↗There's a lot of misinformation and misunderstanding of the global energy supply presented around me nowadays. I would urge anyone to stop what they're doing and read "Clearing the Air" [1]. It's completely reshaped my understanding of this problem, and I am far more optimistic after reading it. It addresses key questions such as "What about China?" and "Can we stop it?" [1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/222768021-clearing-the-a...
on “Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Europe” ↗I just finished "Clearing the Air" by Tim Smedley (https://royalsociety.org/grants-schemes-awards/book-prizes/s...) which was shortlisted for the Royal Society's prize for science books. The first half of the book covers some of the…
on “London Ultra Low Emission Zone cuts toxic air pollution by a third” ↗