We won't afford to delay attending to grips with chemical air pollution

This picture taken on January 16, 2022 shows a man watching smoke hanging over houses on a polluted day in Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia. (Photo by BYAMBASUREN BYAMBA-OCHIR / AFP) (Photo by BYAMBASUREN BYAMBA-OCHIR/AFP via Getty Images)

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IN 1855, Michael Faraday wrote a letter to the UK parliament alerting MPs to the state of the river Thames, which was used each as a sewer and a supply of ingesting water. He had carried out an experiment during which he sank items of paper to see at what level they disappeared from view within the turbid water. Barely any depth in any respect, he discovered, concluding that the river had develop into a cesspool. “If we neglect this topic, we can not count on to take action with impunity,” he warned.

Parliament uncared for the matter, and was punished. In 1858, the Nice Stink …


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