Privatisation is poisoning the very air we breathe | Polly Toynbee

Pointless competition and illusory ‘choice’ have choked our streets and literally undermined our cities

The second month of the year begins with London having already reached its legal air pollution limit for the whole of 2018. The city’s limit of 18 breaches of air quality regulations was used up in January.

Mostly invisible, this silent killer causes an estimated 40,000 early deaths a year in Britain. That’s about 25 times more than roads deaths. Imagine if there were that many murders or NHS accidents or flu epidemic deaths.

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Continue reading... February 01, 2018 at 05:13PM