Air Quality

Air Quality

 Air pollution is rising up the agenda after years of inactivity, when many people were convinced that climate change was the only issue in town. More than 500 London street-signs were "subvertised" on Sunday night with slogans warning people of dangerous air and tonight - provided the police do not prevent it - direct action group Climate Rush will stage a "die-in" on a busy London road. They plan to hold the space for 29 minutes, symbolic they say of the 29,000 premature deaths attributed to poor air quality in the US every year. (Nemet, 2010)

Poor air quality and climate change are very different phenomena, ...