London girl could be first to have “air pollution” listed as cause of death

Re:London girl could be first to have “air pollution” listed... by BurningFrog on Saturday May 04, 2019 @05:40PM (#19829553)

A quick googling gave this historical graph of London's air pollution index: https://ourworldindata.org/london-air-pollution

The peak is at 623¹ in 1891. After another minipeak at 409 in 1935, it went down fast to 26 in 1994 and is now 16.

That's not to say this isn't a problem today. But it was much worse in the past, and this girl is far from the first to die from it.

¹ suspended particulate matter (SPM), measured in micrograms per cubic metres

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Re:London girl could be first to have “air pollution” listed... by inamberclad on Saturday May 04, 2019 @05:48PM (#19829592)

Yep, but the headline says listed as a cause of death. I don't know anyone who doesn't know about the London Fog from the industrial revolution.

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Re:London girl could be first to have “air pollution” listed... by BurningFrog on Saturday May 04, 2019 @10:35PM (#19830757)

I think today people mostly know it from watching The Crown :)

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Re:London girl could be first to have “air pollution” listed... by rorykoehler on Saturday May 04, 2019 @09:47PM (#19830585)

Depends on the day that's in it. There have been days you could see the particles, not as a haze but as actual individual particles. I don't have asthma and London air triggered exercise induced asthma on hot calm summer days (this was 10 years ago).

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