Air pollution

[rendelharris]

Utterly heartbreaking, one to think about for the huge number of people I've seen in this weather parked up with engine running, exercising their "right" to keep their aircon going.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jul/07/in-the-days-around-ellas-death-there-were-big-spikes-in-air-pollution

[Robert Poste's Child]

You're so right. All week I've been noticing parents on the school run, delivery drivers and builders around here during the day doing that.

Today no doubt the air will soon be filled with the smell of burning chemicals, followed by burning grease. I know it makes me sound like a killjoy but I wish people'd thin about the pollution and all the people around them who then have to keep their windows shut / can't sit in their own garden or put their washing out / have to leave that part of the park etc.

[natty01295]

Global Warming it creates

Our World is damaged

[moondancer]

rendelharris Wrote:

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> Utterly heartbreaking, one to think about for the

> huge number of people I've seen in this weather

> parked up with engine running, exercising their

> "right" to keep their aircon going.

>

> https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jul/0

> 7/in-the-days-around-ellas-death-there-were-big-sp

I was in a posh town in Oxfordshire last week : crossing the car park beyond Waitrose, many cars with engines running,

and along by the river and outside the pub, narrow pavements, fumes and additional heat. It isn't just London.

This poor child. It certinly made me consider the selfish dropping off of children by running late parents outside my granddaughter's school (not here) which is on the corner of a busy road, and encouraging my daughter to bring this up at the next PG meeting - there are woods behind which of course act as a lung, but for little Ella there was no such escape.

> ikes-in-air-pollution

[moondancer]

Robert Poste's Child Wrote:

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> You're so right. All week I've been noticing

> parents on the school run, delivery drivers and

> builders around here during the day doing that.

>

> Today no doubt the air will soon be filled with

> the smell of burning chemicals, followed by

> burning grease. I know it makes me sound like a

> killjoy but I wish people'd thin about the

RPC - no it isn't just you - where I live there are small houses with back to back tiny gardens, and although one would imagine it to be sheltered, sound and smells are magnified. Last night our new neighbours lit a barbecue and

all rear windows and balcony doors hurriedly closed.

Smells and sounds rise.

I closed the window loudly like a disapproving old biddy (if the cap fits) and prepared to ask them if it happens again would they mind please moving round to outside their own kitchen so that smells will be absorbed by trees and foliage and not at the side of the house as though neighbours are immune to such inconsiderate shenanigans.

Chemicals and grease !

[Robert Poste's Child]

As I cycled past the velodrome gate just now a gold-coloured car with a racing bike on the roof pulled out of the entrance in front of me. I tend to take it for granted that cyclists are aware and actively against pollution so I was rather shocked to get a faceful of black exhaust every time the driver used the accelerator. Not impressed.

[rendelharris]

Robert Poste's Child Wrote:

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> As I cycled past the velodrome gate just now a

> gold-coloured car with a racing bike on the roof

> pulled out of the entrance in front of me. I tend

> to take it for granted that cyclists are aware and

> actively against pollution so I was rather shocked

> to get a faceful of black exhaust every time the

> driver used the accelerator. Not impressed.

The new cycling boom has been fantastic in many ways, but the tendency of the minority to think that cycling is sticking your mountain bike on the back of the diesel 4x4, driving fifty miles, cycling ten, then driving fifty miles back home again is entirely regrettable.

[malumbu]

Rendel. As you know I am a professional tree hugger, Turning your engine off when you are parked is a no brainer. The one that really fs me off is cops sitting their idling on the side of the road. I've given up taking them and others on. There are worse air quality crimes but this one makes no sense.