When is enough, enough?

[erebus]

Air pollution kills almost 29,000 people in Britain each year, according to a body which advises the UK government. The British government has violated European Union air quality law by producing the highest level of NO2 as compared with any European capital, judges ruled.

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/10030803/Supreme-court-ruling-may-force-British-cities-to-clean-up-and-ban-dirty-cars.html

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/may/01/government-pollution-supreme-court

 

Regulations, stifle business, restrict innoveation, who cares anyway, and should anyone bother to care?

[Alien52]

When is enough, enough?

 

About 5:00pm on Tuesday.

[geared]

29 Thousand people?

 

I really doubt it.

[WeX]

29 Thousand people?

 

I really doubt it.

 

that's only 4.3% of the number of deaths per year (approx 1% of the UK population pops its clogs each year).

[max]

29 Thousand people?

 

I really doubt it.

 

Wake up and smell the pollution: Kings College research.

[Mecky]

Maybe the government should tax heavy pollution from industry just like they want to tax smokers and drinkers

[jfish1936]

Who are the people killed?

Had they respiratory disease before the pollution killed them?

Were they old? (I'm 77, so I can suggest that deaths of the elderly are not a big disaster)

 

Now motor bike crashes kill young people, with years of contribution to the world lost -- much worse!!

 

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Maybe the government should tax heavy pollution from industry just like they want to tax smokers and drinkers

 

Maybe the government should drive heavy industry into other countries, saving the workers having to breathe pollution at work. Also saving the bosses having to pay the workers, and the government from having to collect the taxes, as there'll be no industry to tax.