Just how polluted is the UK today?In 1957, because of my bronchial problems, my family had to move from the industrialised Trent Bank at Keadby to the East Coast. It was just so bad with the steel town of Scunthorpe nearby.
I remember smog masks; factory chimneys belching non-stop filth; diesel emissions that made you physically sick; every household spewing forth dense black smoke; car exhaust fumes in quantities people today just would not believe and on a minor level, more than half the population smoked. Sulphur Dioxide emissions are now a minute fraction of what they once were.
The improvements in my lifetime are beyond dreams. We have cleaned up our act and now we are down to a very low level of muck into the atmosphere, yet apparently it is all OUR faults if global warming kicks in because we have left a telly on standby.
[They cannot be serious!]
Sorry. I just do not buy it. If the climate is hotting up it will be well beyond Man's control; volcanoes and sun cycles spring to mind - and that includes the new, dirty industrialisation in China.
I saw a statistic last year which stated that vehicle emissions globally account for just 0.6% of all atmospheric pollution; basically an irrelevance in the big picture.
If you want to know where it really comes from, then wait for the next Krakatoa or Mount St Helens.
Something tells me that we are all being fed a giant con.
