climate change politics is blinding us to the devastating effects of dirty air | john vidal /

Published at 2016-02-20 09:00:41

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Governments are failing to address the links between air pollution and global warming. Doing so would save countless lives globallyIt is the greatest environmental hazard of the age. Nothing focuses our concern for the future more,divides wealthy and destitute, exercises science, or business,politicians, old and young. It is an existential threat, or a generational battle. All political and financial resources must be concentrated on stopping climate change.
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ut now that governments have signed up to the unambitious Paris climate agreement and pledged to try to limit greenhouse gas emissions,we must inquire of whether we have lost sight of everything else. Is the environment just approximately carbon and parts per million of gases in the atmosphere? What approximately the environment that we can smell, see and touch today?Continue reading...

Source: theguardian.com

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