Speak for yourself. 30 percent population live in cities and 70 percent population in indian villagesbreatheh better air than what Europe is showing. India has one of the cleanest places in Asia and so does one of the polluted like any other place on earth. In west 90 percent live in cities and they will all suffer because of it.
An ignorant statement rooted in prejudice. Europeans per capita pollute much much more. India also has made more steps to curb pollution in the last 20 years than Europeans had in the last 200 years.
Agriculture? We just calculated that one flight of a B777 from Montreal to Rome takes as much fuel as it takes us to run the 50 dairy cow farm for 30 years! So you HAVE to include air traffic as a major polluter as well. As with most news reports, blame the little guy instead of the corporations.
When they say agriculture pollution I don't think they refer to burning fuel, but to the dust and particles sent in the air by plowing, threshing, fertilizing, etc.
The reason why people move to cities is for economic opportunities. Forest that have loads of trees do not have loads of economic opportunities. Everything comes at a cost. You are free to live by a forest in fact cost of living by a forest is much lower. You will just miss out on the economic opportunities as well as they are there because cities are productive. You can choose to live in a green less productive city. You will most likely have even higher cost of living.
The cities in Bulgaria are a bit like that, cities within a forest. Tokyo planted millions of trees and the air quality improved, so yeah I agree, more trees in cities!
Every day people of the world, especially those in well-developed countries need to rise up and demand clean air, water and soil. There is no life without it. Generations to come deserve better.
Maybe instead of always demanding, those people should stop buying a new smartphone every year, and take the bus once in a while. All this pollution isn't created magically by some evil sorcerer it's well all and our consume that's creating it.
You really gotta love how health preserving measures are always "too expensive" when dealing with the consequences of health impairment is much more costly. What does that remind me of? I think it was something that has to do with stuff in the air as well...
Yup, especially where I live it’s the military FIRST! But healthcare for the people who would sign up for the military…healthcare for service members after they live the military…healthcare for the average person… Don’t even get me started on education and infrastructure. But they wait till it’s a disaster and then “lose” disaster relief funds.
I am a Greek national but have been living in Japan for the last 5 years. I have visited Athens 3 times in this period and all times I got asthmatic bronchitis in a matter of two days following my arrival and needed antibiotics. Everyone around me is coughing but I think because it is their daily life they don't realize it's not normal to be coughing everyday....
That is usually treated with steroids. There is no way you did got a reasonable amount of inflammation and infection in two days. You should have more investigations maybe you lost capacity or have heavy scarring from the pandemic.
@@toyotaprius79 it's not just VW, all major European brands have prioritised diesel over the last 20+ years. We were told they are better for the planet as they produce less CO2 than petrol. Who's fault is that? blame the government!
Bingo. I live in the greater Toronto area in Canada. Minus the forest fires, a typical AQI is 6. And this despite the fact that there are millions of people living in the area, in a lowland, high car usage, low mass transport usage compared to Europe, cheaper fuel, less carbon tax level. I think it's three things...first, low use of diesel cars for passenger vehicles. Second, North American suburbs have a lot more green space than the dense compact areas of Europe. Third, EVERYONE has air conditioning in the area, which means every building is taking air in, filtering it, and goes back into the outside environment filtered lowing the outside AQI. The air conditioned buildings provide protected areas for people when AQI levels are high. In the house I live, despite reaching an AQI of 75 outside due to forest fires, the house indoor AQI was 1 due to the HEPA filtering and recirculation of the air conditioning.
Here in the US we have many who are proud to breathe polluted air and drink polluted water while stuffing billions into the hands of those responsible.🇺🇸
Unfortunately we have our fair share of those fools here in Europe. The issue where I live is actually farming - the entire country is extremely over farmed (biggest food exporter in the world after USA and we're one of the smallest EU countries). The crazy thing is that the entire industry is at very best break-even but most likely economically negative given the huge healthcare costs it creates.
People used to live in much worse conditions. Clean air is a result of wealth and wealth is a result of previous pollution. You can reduce wealth and have more expensive manufacturing but those who are poor will suffer the most. In either case poorest suffer as they move to polluted areas to seek employment. These polluted areas are polluted because they are productive. That said the issue could be resolved but air is another tragedy of the commons.
I came to Belgium two weeks ago from the US. I live in Texas, so the air isn’t the best, but I had an asthma attack for the first time in four years in Belgium. I was choking. I thought my asthma was gone but the pollution triggered it. I’m really glad the Belgian people saved my life.
Antwerp region is one big chemo dump. Anything goes in Belgium. To divert attention the whole society is nitpicky on all kinds of little rules amd details.
This is an extremely important topic that I wish had more public attention/mindshare. When you really look at the numbers of severe illness and death caused by fine particulate matter pollution, it's especially insane that Germany quit nuclear power before it quit coal. (And actually extended its use of coal to fill the gap left in base-load/nighttime power generation.) It's like banning plane travel because you're worried about a crash, and then making everyone travel by car instead, which is actually much more deadly.
What this tells you is that the current German coalition government was never truly "green" but anti-nuclear. And when it comes to nuclear energy in Germany, the anti-nuclear movement in Germany and the leftist based protest groups which became the Green Party were funded by the then Soviet Union. Why did the USSR do this? Because the US under Ronald Reagan parked Pershing nuclear missiles on West German soil after the West German leadership actually wondered if the US truly would come to the aid of West Germany if the USSR with its massive tank formations suddenly crossed the border. The USSR was incensed, because the nukes negated the tank and manpower advantage, so the USSR funded hysteria about nuke power, so that average Germans would ask their government to tell the Americans to remove their nukes. I'm sure with the current Ukraine war, the Ukrainians wished Biden acted like Reagan and parked nuclear weapons on Ukrainian soil to keep Putin in his place.
@@effexon Maybe it's because Poland is already using so much coal that the pollution in Poland is much higher than that in Germany. Germany did have a push for generating much renewable energy. I think that Angela Merkel's plan to shut down all nuclear reactors by using Russian natural gas as a transition fuel fell apart due to Russia's using its natural gas as an economic weapon to support its attempted and failed annexation of Ukraine opposed by Germany. Germany does have much coal so it went back to using more coal. Poo-tin made everyone "travel by car." Of course, Germany could have bought U. S. A.'s fracked gas but that costs much more than locally produced coal in Germany for sure.
Honestly, only banning cars from cities really helps. Foster biking and public transport. This will lead to new investments and makes everybody more healthy. The amount of money that is being wasted for cars is outstanding.
There are so many sources of air polution, just removing old cars is not enough, new heavier cars also emit massive amounts of brakedust and material from their tyres as do delivery trucks etc... The worst thing is... many new heavy (poluting) cars have a HEPA filter protecting those on the inside while still harming those on the outside. It seems unfair to those of us on a bike...
@@anhidric1 Only if they are available. In most places, they aren't. And most times, there is no direct connection. Switching trains and platforms costs additional time.
@@HolgerJakobs that's why important to address those issues, that's what the switch entails, it has to be top down. There are major cities where public transport or cycling _is_ faster. And many cases even in smaller places where, depending on your circumstances, it will be faster to use non-car transport rather than go through traffic, find a parking spot and do all the other logistical things related to driving a car.
@@viliussmproductions Very true, but it is going to take decades. In the last 20 years, public transport hasn't improved, but declined. Bad decisions of the politicians. I didn't vote for those.
Great report. Finland has very strict rules when it comes to butcher their nature for building purposes, no wonder why Finland has the minimal pollution
@@Mephitinae it's bad in spring after the snow melts off the roads and before people take their winter tires off but otherwise it's fine unless you're near busy traffic a lot. i live in the helsinki metropolitan area outside of the densely built up area and the air is already a lot better here than in the core of the city. i think not letting people drive to the city centre with studded tires would do a lot for improving air quality.
@@Mephitinae also to be honest if i got to make the descisions i would do what barcelona did and ban through-traffic from a lot of the streets but i don't think the right wingers here are gonna let that happen without a big fight and crying about "bicycle-communists"
They just report the information and have absolutely no biases. Just facts and information. That's what news used to be in the U.S. . Now even the reporters and news has opinions. The DW does a great job at being very unbiased. It's very much appreciated.
I was in Bogota Colombia last year for three weeks vacation. I think that maybe take 10 years off my life . the car, bus , truck , and motorcycle pollution is through the roof 😢
According to your calculation I should be dead already since I was in Jakarta for eight months - Bogota had the cleanest mountain air one can imagine compared to there.
I live in Alberta, Canada, and this summer, we had a HUGE problem with wildfires/air pollution. The air quality was so very bad that there were many days when we were told to stay inside and not leave the house. We already have a very short summer season here (mostly very cold winters from October to April), and now we can't even be outside in summer? We spend most of our time indoors. What kind of life is this?!
@@Gwynarra2 Yup, exactly! People need to take charge, it starts with the individual. There are many things one can do to save the planet. Don't wait for those hopeless politicians to make changes because, in the end, all they care about is their own financial well being....
It's fascinating how the 2.5 ppm map pretty much is a population map over Europe, too. There's no country that has managed to keep air pollution in check, even places like Norway, which has a lot of space and air to diffuse its local pollution. Time to step up!
If we think about the long list of serious problems currently threatening mankind, of which air pollution is only one, it's so obvious that despite all the meetings and summits etc that they attend, world leaders are totally incapable of solving any of these problems. That's why our Creator is very shortly going to remove all human governments and everyone causing suffering for others. His just and righteous, heavenly Kingdom government, which Jesus preached about, is the means by which he will do this. (Luke 8:1; Matthew 6:10; Daniel 2:44; Proverbs 2:21, 22) The Kingdom will undo all the harm done by greedy, selfish people, and it will bring true peace and security to the earth. (Micah 4:3, 4; Psalm 37:10, 11) The needs of every individual person will be lovingly cared for. (Isaiah 65:21, 22) Tears of sorrow will be changed into tears of joy. (Revelation 21:4) These wonderful changes are imminent!
Atleast its not as bad as in China, where a literal persistent smog presides over a lot of cities. The only time the CCP does something about it is when a city is in the public spotlight - like what they did during the olympics.
This again is one case where nothing changes because large corporations (in this case car manufacturers) profit more from the status quo while there are high societal costs that they are not paying. I live in one of the most polluted cities in Germany. We need better public transportation and far better bike infrastructure and we need to severely limit the entry of cars to our inner city, but that just won’t happen.
@@melchiorvonsternberg844 Das ist offensichtlich keine Alternative, wenn man mehr als zwei Sekunden drüber nachdenkt. Während individuelle Stadtbewohner unter Umständen wegziehen können (was allerdings oft arbeitsplatztechnisch, sozial und finanziell belastend ist und in vielen Fällen das Problem der Luftverschmutzung verschlimmern wird, weil man außerhalb wohnend typischerweise stärker auf ein Auto angewiesen ist), kann man das schlecht der gesamten Bewohnerschaft einer Stadt raten. Man kann ja schlecht eine Stadt einfach zerstreuen und das wäre auch definitiv nicht sinnvoll. Der Vorschlag "Wegziehen" ist einfach keine systemische Lösung. Luftverschmutzung ist aber ein systemisches und kein individuelles Problem. Systemische Probleme mit individuellen Lösungsvorschlägen lösen zu wollen, führt nicht weiter. Demgegenüber sind systemische Lösungsansätze denkbar. Einige davon habe ich genannt.
London has had a charge on cars entering Central London for a decade, and they are extending it at the moment - so it is possible, it just needs the political will from your politicians. It isn't popular but the original measure made some difference. Once the ban on the sale of new ICE powered cars comes in then the situation should gradually improve Europe-wide over the following decade or two as people buy new electric cars and the old ICE cars are gradually scrapped. Of course, German Greens pushing their country into closing down nuclear plants and re-opening lignite burners was an absurd decision for so many reasons. But planting trees in cities and replacing old heating systems have benefits for both climate change and air quality.
Brake dust (fine dust) is very deadly. Even if EVs just half the CO2 emission, their regenerative braking can add a lot to improve air quality in the cities!
True, but it is mostly because EV's are heavier because of their battery packs. Bigger petrol cars have the same issue. There needs to be more limits on car sizes or at least their purchase should be discouraged. SUV's for instance are less economical, emit more and are less safe for people outside and inside of them (heavier and more blind spots). I think it's crazy there are not policies for this. The company I work is switching all vehicles to electrical cars, but some of them are big extra heavy SUV's.
Regenerative braking doesn't cause brake dust as it simply uses the electric motor to recharge the battery. Their normal braking would add to the brake dust but not regenerative braking
The very act of braking causes brake dust. Regenerative braking systems don't stop brake dust from being produced. Besides, those heavy great EV's need the brakes to work harder. The tyres are supporting a much heavier car and so the wear on them is harder. I wouldn't be surprised if EV's were adding to the problem rather than reducing it. What we 'really' need is better public transport systems - for all, subsidised so they are a much 'cheaper' way to travel - rather than being the same price as one person taking their car for that journey instead. If my low income family takes the bus into town, it costs £12 for our return tickets. If we take the car, it costs £2.50 there and back. Buses are often cancelled. How is that any encouragement to take the bus? More services, more subsidies, more reliability, better connections between rail and bus routes, family package deals - and they'll have less pollution.
@@debbiehenri345 could you please explain how regenerative braking creates dust? Normal braking works through friction of a brake disc on a brake pad which causes dust to be produced as both wear down from the friction. Regenerative braking has no touching parts and instead uses the spinning of the motor (connected to the wheels) to induce an electric current in the coiles in the motor which causes electricity to flow into the battery. It is similar to the force you would experience if you move two repelling magnets past each other. It does not rely on friction and therefore should not produce brake dust.
Here in the US, wildfires cause very significant drops in air quality. It used to be only some localized pockets, but this year it has been very bad with huge fires in Canada.
Last year Washington DC ordered Us Forest to burn before forest dept sent data breaking US law unfortunately officials want pension so no whistle being blown
You can prevent wildfires by investing into preventive measures against wildfires such as brush removal and early detection systems but the governments cut corners and do not care about such things. California often burns but it's hard to invest into something that will not effect the current election cycle.
@@princeofexcess That's a big part of it, my uncles all worked in disaster mitigation up here in Western Canada, and have been talking for decades about how the government needed to be doing more controlled burns. However, climate change is a big factor too, anyone who denies it at this point has no clue what they're talking about. I've seen the glaciers near my hometown shrink to less than a fifth of their size over just the last two decades, every year it just gets hotter and hotter and it magnifies the mistakes made by the government
Yes it is insanity, but hopefully the fission plants will soon be running and will start having electric cars! India has one of the few Luna probes and is progressing fast!
Indians don't connect their own actions with the consequences of just don't care at all, "due to our poverty" and "great numbers." That's Socialism without concern to achieve the social good of clean air, clean water, clean land, clean people, clean government, clean finance, etc.
EU makes sure our air is polluted. We get a couple of days with blue sky, when lucky, and then they spray the sky with chemtrails that afterwards cover the sky. And not contrails which evaporate.
Reminds me again about one statement i heared a while ago along the line of: 'Say even if climate change scientists would be wrong about how they interpret their data, it wouldn't still too bad to have clean air and water and none poluted lands at the end.'
Our Creator has promised that very shortly he's going to "bring to ruin those ruining the earth". (Revelation 11:18) His righteous, heavenly Kingdom government is currently poised to take over the rule of the entire earth and it will undo all the harm done by greedy, selfish people. (Luke 8:1; Matthew 6:10) It will remove all human governments along with those who refuse to live in harmony with others, our beautiful planet, and all life on it. (Daniel 2:44; Proverbs 2:21, 22) There will be true peace and security on the earth where everyone's needs will be lovingly cared for. (Micah 4:3, 4; Psalm 37:10, 11) Everything will be completely free of pollution. These wonderful changes are imminent!
I live in a rural area of BC Canada, and there are trees all around me. Unfortunately, the AQI has been over 50 (the dividing line between a green or good evaluation and yellow or moderate) for half of the past three weeks. Trees by themselves aren't enough.
We want it all but haven't realized that with this many people on the planet, we just can't do that. We want clean air. We want a vibrant economy. Something has been breaking here; our planet.
Ah, but the billionaires will save us! The holy trinity of Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg will invent some miracle so we don't have to change anything!!! OK, sorry, I can't keep that level of sarcasm up any longer 🤣
Went to china advising a transportation company in Henan. Which itself is an island popular with tourists, couldn’t breath couldn’t taste the whole time. Smog blocks 30% to a high of 70% sunlight in the bad days. When I got into LAX swore I’d never complain about air quality again
as a cyclist commuting just 15 minutes in a small city (Timisoara) in Romania, my eyes are burning after cycling to work, while avoiding as much as possible the main roads... This did not surprise me, even when diving in Greece i breath the toxic fumes of cars passing by while the shops are filling the gas bottles...
@moosesandmeese969 Start with your car then go plant some trees on “your street”…….. as a matter a fact throw out your computer, cell phone, chuck your washer, dryer, stove, microwave, refrigerator, AC and/or heating unit, your toilet and shower and/or tub, don’t take a plane or bus or train anywhere etc etc etc……… Oh and go eat those “styrofoam peanuts” from your last Amazon delivery from China that was delivered to whatever residence you’re currently dwelling in……….
Yep, most of these cities have very little industry anymore but still a ton of PM2.5. Paris even gets most of its electricity from zero air pollution nuclear and hydro. It's clear that cars are the biggest part of the problem in Europe.
@@s87-d7d there are bigger issues in, for instance, China, India, and anywhere downwind of a coal plant. Natural gas furnaces and appliances are quite bad as well. That said, cars are generally the biggest problem in terms of PM2.5.
I've been wearing N-95 masks outdoors for almost a decade as it's good for filtering air pollution. Can't rely on governments to do anything right and polluters should be paying higher fines to cover the costs.
@SA-ks9vz And yet those N95 masks you have been wearing for “10 years” aren’t biodegradable……… guess you’re doing your part…….. polluting…….. you should be fined for your 10 years of polluting and the fines should be higher in your case considering you’ve been doing it for at least 10 years according to yourself………. Either that or you have thousands of masks shoved into plastic bags(which aren’t biodegradable, by the way) in whatever residence you dwell in (oh and by the way go look around your particular residence and let me know how many items you have that aren’t biodegradable) and how much pollution you are putting out daily…….. I’m curious……….. since apparently “you’re doing everything right”…………. So in conclusion I can’t relay on you to do “everything right” either or anything right for that matter of fact…………. But hey keep “patting yourself on your back” because you’ve been wearing a N95 mask outside for the past 10 years…….. though you probably haven’t figured it out yet but I’ll inform you. You are a hypocrite, nothing more and nothing less………..
@@OllieX123 It's a trade off since governments knew about these impacts in the 1970s and did nothing about it, we have to either pay with our depleted health or use protection until it's fixed and they take it seriously. They are trying to come up with reusable silicone N-95 masks, so that might help the impact.
I live in Austria. Many people switched from heating with gas to wood stoves. You can hardly breath on cold winter evenings when you take a walk outside...😢
I dunno for the rest of Europe, but here in my part of Germany one big issue is that there´s lots of good solutions but absolute abhorrent implementation. Like generally requiring low energy homes is a good idea. But forcing half the rural population to sell their old farms to Chinese "investors" because the owners can´t afford the costs to renovate their houses to the new energy standard, isn´t going to help at all. Neither is the prevention of wide spread solar power usage, by pretty much regulating to whole sector to a hold. At the same time, personal interest of certain politicians gets in the way. Like how they reduce spending on train infrastructure and propagate to own multiple cars to rural people, because why having one efficient car, if you can have two giant inefficient SUV´s? Freedom culture, amirite?!
Bring back Covid! The air quality was superb when no one was out and about creating pollution. Humanity always wait to the last minute to do something. Be it tax returns, or climate change. Unfortunately, planet climate is like a fright train, it take a lot to start or stop it.
Yeah, how about we can have permanent home office… why waste time and energy going into the office when I can solve everything from home. Ridiculous. If people want to meet up with team members they can go to the office but most people prefer working from home at least 2 or 3 day a week.
You can't be serious. I live in Paris for 10 years now, and none of the person I know have such problems... Your health was probably not good before, don't be so dramatic. Exceeding pollution thresholds happen less than 15 days a year in Paris. It's nothing compared to what happen in any other cities in the world
Germans forced themselves back to coal. As a population, we've basically brainwashed ourselves over decades into being extremely irrationally afraid of nuclear and ignoring all hard science that contradicts this belief. Mass hysteria - it's a wild phenomenon.
I live in Catania, Italy, since 10 months. Here you can't even go for a 20 min walk because the air is so poluted that you get sick. The 99% of the cars are diesel and clearly without any kind of control from the authorities like the german Tüv or the spanish ITV.
5 micriograms/m^3 of what? Nitrogen oxides, phosphorous oxides, sulfur oxides, carbon soot, hazardous organic compounds? This is an obvious issue. News agencies need to do their homework or hire scientific staff.
That's how the saying goes: "Do you believe me or your lying eyes?". If you set the limits low enough, you can sound the alarm all the time. The people nowadays don't even know what real pollution looks and feels like.
This data is showing pollution levels in the summer when air pollution is always higher due to high pressure systems & less precipitation. Replacing traditional cars with electric cars won't help much because in many countries like Germany they will be powered by coal powered plants. Also air pollution from China & India, the biggest polluters can be carried to Europe with the jet stream.
thats good point.... they found out ships moving to non sulphuric fuels cleaned up whole northern african continent area having effect in weather patterns.
This is not about trees and capture of CO2. It’s about toxins from burning hydrocarbons. Electric transportation is what’s needed, especially to eliminate Diesel.
EVs have a huge environmental and social impact as well. See lithium production. Cars in general need to go away. They just take up precious space and are having an air and noise polltuion impact.
One step would be to get rid of cruise ships. Speaking from a coastal city, most of our air (and sea) pollution derives from those monstrosities dumping waste in the gulf and even docking here with their engines on. Incalculable ecological damage.
When a government has given tax cuts on vehicles because they were polluting so little, the same cars shouldn't be banned from cities because they polute so much. Government politics have to be more forward-looking and consistent in the long run!
When I lived in a large Asian city in a certain communist nation* back in 2011-2012, the entire winter was usually up above 500 AQI, sometimes above 900. When I moved back 2017-2019, it was a lot better, but would still be above 150 most of the winter. I wound up developing asthma from it - the whistling in my lung would wake me up at night. I wore an N95 mask every time I set foot outside and ran filters 24/7, 365 days a year in my home and it still damaged my health like that. *I'm not saying which nation cuz their puppets love to get on comments like this and start spewing out nonsense about how terrible the USA's air quality is (they always assume you're American if you're saying anything even slightly negative about their country.)
Ah yes, but what about America, hmm? Sorry, I'm joking. 🤣 Air pollution is an everyone problem, but waiting for everyone else to solve their issues before we solve ours is the most batshit selfish illogic anyone can use as an excuse for inaction. I cannot stand the sort of people you mention, because they'll happily let the world burn rather than do anything about it. It's the equivalent of refusing to flush your stinky toilet because your neighbour won't flush theirs, but the reason they won't flush theirs is because you won't flush yours. It's childishly pathetic, and hurts everyone.
I've been walking through the German rural, low pop village in meck-pom last week where my grandparents live. It feels like the amount of cars around has exponentially increased and every family needs at least 2 cars compared to 15 years ago. Same in Lübeck where I grew up. There didn't seem as many cars and traffic when I was a kid, but these days they are everywhere. I wonder if that has to do with it or there is a graph of the no2 concentration per year/decade. Not even gonna talk about the big cities, since they are undoubtedly screwed.
Same here in rural Brandenburg. It´s insane, especially when they start building in or around a bigger city and all the traffic gets rerouted via the surrounding countryside streets. I remember a time, like 25ish years ago or so, where we often didn´t even need a car. My grandfathers brother would takes us to town by horse cart and we´d come back at the end of the day via the school bus bringing all the kids home. lol Unimaginable today.
To add on that, I used to live in a village near Munich, an hour to Munich centre by the Sbahn. While living there I still saw horse carts and such, especially in the weekend. But overall, the public infrastructure was simply very poor and unreliable. There were only 2 Sbahn/hour going through the village during rush hours, and just 1 Sbahn/hour regularly. In the winter they constantly cancelled the train, leaving pupils, students, and workers stranded. You simply cannot rely on the Sbahn to take you to school or work on time. So people were forced to invest in cars. I eventually moved back to Munich centre because of the Sbahn issue. The public transportation still gets worse and worse each day. I don‘t see how German people can rely less on their cars when that is the only reliable mode of transportation they have left.
@@thaomac2907is it because cities grow in population so fast, infrastructure simply cant keep up? also downtowns are often crowded as is, causing traffic bottlenecks and solutions like OP mentioned.... train lines are very difficult to expand once built as city grows around them leaving no space. I live in big city region and noticed same, life quality is simply sufferably bad without car, despite for commute it is needed to use public, but any other use car is useful... friend family got car to move kids to kindergarten (sometimes one kid is in one place, other several km in other place ) + shopping groceries. Irony in bigger and bigger cities is, I assume from your description, that lot of people working in city cant afford to live there, so they are dependent on commute via train or car to get to their job. Small town/village life is more ideal but there is rarely any fulltime jobs there, while commute would be like as kid, walk or cycling.
@@thaomac2907 Yeah it defo adds to the problem. Things like the 49€ Ticket is a nice start, but kinda what's the point if you never know whether you can get there on time.. I got stuck for 2h in Neumünster the other day while on my way back to my uni's town. Couldn't imagine going to work with such an unreliable service. I mean I pay for a specific route and a specific time associated with that route. Idk how it can be acceptable to leave paying customers stranded like that and even if I were to say take a taxi because I've got an important appointment, I'd still have to pay myself upfront and then go through an unreal pile of paperwork to get me 80 euro back from the DB, hardly being worth the effort. Also the rural regions have really poor infrastructure in general. While they can look modern, 1 bus/hour is simply not enough to offer people who have cars a valid alternative, I agree. At this point you might as well say "I'm going on a road trip" when traveling by public transport, cause you can't ever be sure if you'll actually arive at your destination on time -.-
I am really not a fan of the modern, lobby-centric way of policy-making, but there are still some politicians, that kept their drive to make things better. Especially those, that got into politics, because they wanted to change things. I feel that the EU has an above average track-record when it comes to making policies for the people, at least compared to our local German government... Wich isn't saying much, to be honest, but still. I think that so called "career-politicians" are a big part of the problem. It's hard to feel represented, when non of your representatives know what live is like in the "real" world.
Well as long as we, Europeans, will not ban bad quality everyday products and appliances and mass produced food, which is stuffed with many boosters. We would never live in clean, healthy and economically efficient environment. Your car, refrigerator, TV, furnitures, clothes everything you use on daily basics should be done with best quality materials, which would last you the most, while they have as little impact on polution as it's possible.
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EVERYTIME the Paris Mayor has been trying to reduce the CARs, ... there has been a hudge rise in the Stereotypes and caricatures and criticism about HEr, about the Paris Mayor and government, and so much has been done for bicycles in the past 10 years, ... and so much morecriticism has arised from that policies, telling this mayor is bad etc... you know , you can't advocate Againste cars and have a good political image. She did a lot, ...let's hope the next paris mayor will ... do More. Still too much cars and CO2 gaz in the city center. WIth millions of inhabitants and millions of tourists, ... we do need to reduce cars dont we ? .... ??? dont we?
If you visit Kazakhstan, especially cities like Almaty, Pavlodar, Ust'-Kamenogorsk and Astana, then you will not only feel the air pollution but see it with your own eyes! Therefore, trust me, Europe is still far away from it. We have high cancer diseases from that, not just asthma...
@@argyntobyqty6496 hello, interesting. I haven't been to Pavlodar, only been to Astana twice- once in summer, once in 'winter' -last November- was snow. There were quite many cars in Astana. There were constructions underway too.
It’s nothing to panic about. Air quality in most large European cities was way, way worse 100 years ago when we were all burning wood and coal for heat. PM10 and PM2.5 levels in most cities have fallen ever since, to a fraction of what they were, and they are still falling. We’re having one crisis after another, Covid, immigration, climate, heat waves, forest fires, nitrogen emissions… this is one thing we can be relaxed about. And anyone suffering from respiratory issues: count yourself lucky that things are better than they were 10, 20, 50 and 100 years ago. Much better.
So u r so developed. Development does not mean taking drugs, illegal afairs, using casmetics for beautyful outlook etc. Developed means mentally thinking better.
PM 2.5 crosses into the blood and thickens it like flour turning chicken broth into thick gravy, straining the heart. This report is not fear-mongering.
Yeah. And so Germany is turning off the nuclear power plants to turn on the coal ones. That will improve the air quality for sure. All this arsenic, lead, mercury, selenium, chromium, cadmium, ash, nitrogen oxide, sulphur dioxide will surely make our health here better. And all this because of fear mongering. Good job, Germany!
The best way to reduce ecological transportation costs is to reduce the weight of the vehicle. The average vehicle weighs 3000 pounds. This is way too heavy. If you take the weight of a bicycle, compared to a person, the ratio of a 35 pound bike and a 170 pound person is around 5 to 1. The ratio between a car and person is 18 to 1. This means the bicycle is 13 times more efficient to travel with compared to a car. So, with that said, an optimally designed passenger car to carry five people should weigh less than 1200 pounds.
During the pandemic, the scientists that knew about fresh air and filtration systems were defeated by biomedicine in a struggle for power. We are ignorant about air pollution. Fresh air needs to be mandated and regulated and we need a strong cultural focus where clean air is a competitive parameter. Eg The CO2 levels are displayed live on Apple and Google Maps for bars and restaurants.
Ohh that is such a good idea about live CO2 measures! When you know what you know about the on gong risk of the virus, it’s maddening to be left to our own devices so completely. If people could have simple strategies like this show them what is invisible, in the here and now, other more helpful social behaviours would kick in.
Just look at all those horrible heavy polluting vehicles stuck in endless stationary or very slow moving queues you just know things have to change fast. There’s the pollution but also the danger these heavy vehicles pose to bikes and small, light, electric vehicles which are the obvious solution to our urban transport nightmare.
without those heavy vehicles you will be hungry,no food on your table,no clothes to wear,no electricity,stores would be empty ,no gas on gas stations..look around you everything around you is brought to you by those heavy vehicles seems you have a beef on heavy vehicles? thanks the the truckers while your asleep we are working to deliver your needs!
Somehow I get the impression that a significant part of the scientific community suffers from distortions of perception. Because if you look at the air pollution in Europe's cities 60 or even 50 years ago, there has been a significant improvement in air quality. And one thing should not be ignored in this context. If people decide to live in a big city and enjoy all the advantages of a larger city, then they also have to be prepared to accept the corresponding disadvantages, such as noise pollution and bad air. Nobody is forced to live in a city...
"Nobody is forced to live in a city" is a very ignorant comment. Not everyone has the freedom to choose their job and not everyone can commute for hours to get there. Sure, I'd love a lakeside cottage in the wilderness, but sadly, that doesn't come with an income. Please think before posting a comment like yours.
@@katek6808 Well... I'll make it easy for you. Is it true or not true that someone is forcing you to live in a city at gunpoint? A simple yes or no is enough for me. And since that seems to be the only stumbling block for you in my statement, you probably agree with me about the rest. At least...
@@melchiorvonsternberg844 ah, nice, a typical, unreflected and uneducated "comeback". Nobody is forcing you at gunpoint to breathe at all, so stop doing it and save all of us from your ignorance, I guess.
I keep wondering how much the rate of solar power generation of electricity could be raised to replace coal and oil power across the world? And how that might help to reduce air polution. Could programs to create solar electric powered trolly systems in countires across the world help clear the air and remove air poluting cars from the streets? If so then why is the EU not supporting such programs?
The EU does attempt to control pollution and promote renewable energy. The stopping of Russian Gas meant that more coal had to be burnt last winter to generate electricity. But this winter LNG will be imported through the dozen or so new FLNG terminals in the Baltic, North and Mediterranean seas. And last winter Gas consumption for heating and power generation was 15% less across Europe, this year new wind farms will be on stream amounting to 4/5GW, gas storage is full already and we look forward to the French nuclear fleet to be fully available. France has ~60GW of nuclear power but many boiler systems suffered corrosion due to the wear and tear of the water rushing through them. They have been under repair for the last 12 months, we hope they will be fully available this year, though at the moment the hot temperatures mean that they and many fossil fuel plants struggle to meet their plated output.
@@briangriffiths1285 OK so I can clearly see what Germany has done to add more solar powered systems to generate larege scale power plants... but not so much places like Greece and Italy... why is this?
@catherineleslie-faye4302 And I keep wondering how people like yourself can’t actually use the logical side of their brains…….. maybe stop posing questions based solely on “your emotional view”……….. this world contains a lot more (and I do mean a lot more) people then just you…….
@@catherineleslie-faye4302 Greece has long had solar hot water heating. Most homes have flat roofs and indeed for some tax reasons are never finished off.The flat roofs take the weight of solar panels and a big horizontal cylinder attached to them. I don't recollect seeing any renewable energy in Italy but it is 8 or 9 years since I last drove down to Rome. Quite possibly solar PV is less favoured down there because the heat at midday would restrict their output. I can imagine solar panels reaching 80 or 90 degrees C maybe higher. whereas in Northern Europe cooler weather and sea breezes reduces the heat build up on panels to a greater extent. Spain and Portugal both have wind turbines up in the central high plains. I think Spain actually achieved to produce all its electricity from wind on one occasion. And here in the UK we have some 30 GW of wind turbines and 10 GW of solar energy. The cooler Spring temperatures produce peak output from solar.We are looking forward to the largest offshore wind farm in the world to be completed in 2025 of 5 GW. Dogger Bank A,B,C and Sofia and a neighbouring area is being investigate for a 2 GW Dogger Bank D.
@@briangriffiths1285 Solar panels in the USA desert south west work in temperatures of +125*F... I was speaking of town + city wide trolly and bus systems not home hotwater heaters. I know plenty of folks even with RVs that have solar panel kits to heat water and provide electricity for fridge and stoves for decades... that is 1998 technology.
International Fresh Air Alliance (IFAA) should be made between countries like International Solar Alliance. Countries should issue a advisory to all international tourists to not visit polluted countries. We should hit the finance of that particular polluted countries if we want some improvement otherwise we are only going to see only tv show. Love from Bihar, India 💛
Every large city I think should be completely free of any vehicles except scooters, rollerblades, bicycles etc. No electric vehicles, nothing. And little bit of dust that's still generated should be wet cleaned and vacuumed every day, not just few times a week. And speaking of all the first responders, might sound crazy, but i think good old horses could be considered. Endless ways, but one thing is clear, we can't breathe anymore, something needs to be done.
Europe: there's pollution in our air.
India: there's air in our pollution..
Depends on where you live.
Mostly all the cities
@@kgr3977what is the nonsense? Indian cities dominate the top 20 most polluted cities.
Speak for yourself. 30 percent population live in cities and 70 percent population in indian villagesbreatheh better air than what Europe is showing. India has one of the cleanest places in Asia and so does one of the polluted like any other place on earth. In west 90 percent live in cities and they will all suffer because of it.
An ignorant statement rooted in prejudice. Europeans per capita pollute much much more. India also has made more steps to curb pollution in the last 20 years than Europeans had in the last 200 years.
It doesn't just kill you, it makes you miserably and painfully ill for ages before you die 😢
It does shorten lifespan and decreases quality of life
The video displayed a stat that read "Pollution kills 1200 children a year in Europe." Air pollution absolutely kills.
Bro Europe is nothing compared to Asia's pollution
Agriculture? We just calculated that one flight of a B777 from Montreal to Rome takes as much fuel as it takes us to run the 50 dairy cow farm for 30 years! So you HAVE to include air traffic as a major polluter as well. As with most news reports, blame the little guy instead of the corporations.
Jet engines burn their fuel very cleanly. There's very little particulate matter produced by planes. A lot of CO2, but not much particulates.
When they say agriculture pollution I don't think they refer to burning fuel, but to the dust and particles sent in the air by plowing, threshing, fertilizing, etc.
I don't know how it works in EU. But for some Asian states, burning straws is one of key sources of PM2.5 and PM10.
@@frjoethesecond dude, they have to produce the fuel too...
All cities should have loads of trees on every street. It is a small step but it would make a difference.
Like the nordic countries, Trees everywhere :)
domestic heating with coal and other fossil fuels are the main culprict anything else is just a decoy
@@SpeedRebirthI think the high renewables and low population density have more of an impact. But yes, trees are nice to have around.
The reason why people move to cities is for economic opportunities. Forest that have loads of trees do not have loads of economic opportunities.
Everything comes at a cost. You are free to live by a forest in fact cost of living by a forest is much lower. You will just miss out on the economic opportunities as well as they are there because cities are productive.
You can choose to live in a green less productive city. You will most likely have even higher cost of living.
The cities in Bulgaria are a bit like that, cities within a forest. Tokyo planted millions of trees and the air quality improved, so yeah I agree, more trees in cities!
Every day people of the world, especially those in well-developed countries need to rise up and demand clean air, water and soil. There is no life without it. Generations to come deserve better.
And fruits on trees, bushes and shrubs, everywhere and fasting in the colder seasons?
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Maybe instead of always demanding, those people should stop buying a new smartphone every year, and take the bus once in a while. All this pollution isn't created magically by some evil sorcerer it's well all and our consume that's creating it.
I wonder if those everyday people would rise up if it meant they could no longer order goods from Wish or Temu.
You really gotta love how health preserving measures are always "too expensive" when dealing with the consequences of health impairment is much more costly.
What does that remind me of? I think it was something that has to do with stuff in the air as well...
Why is this? It makes no sense from an emotional nor financial nor humanitarian perspective
so true
Yup, especially where I live it’s the military FIRST! But healthcare for the people who would sign up for the military…healthcare for service members after they live the military…healthcare for the average person…
Don’t even get me started on education and infrastructure.
But they wait till it’s a disaster and then “lose” disaster relief funds.
Nobody wants to pay, governments aren't willing to spend as it's a cost-centre rather than profit-making venture.
I am a Greek national but have been living in Japan for the last 5 years. I have visited Athens 3 times in this period and all times I got asthmatic bronchitis in a matter of two days following my arrival and needed antibiotics. Everyone around me is coughing but I think because it is their daily life they don't realize it's not normal to be coughing everyday....
Volkswagen's diesels still chugging along, but now with added forest fires
That is usually treated with steroids. There is no way you did got a reasonable amount of inflammation and infection in two days.
You should have more investigations maybe you lost capacity or have heavy scarring from the pandemic.
Antibiotics are for bacterial infections, which you did not have from breathing smoggy air. You were either misdiagnosed, misprescribed or both.
@@toyotaprius79 it's not just VW, all major European brands have prioritised diesel over the last 20+ years.
We were told they are better for the planet as they produce less CO2 than petrol.
Who's fault is that? blame the government!
Bingo. I live in the greater Toronto area in Canada. Minus the forest fires, a typical AQI is 6. And this despite the fact that there are millions of people living in the area, in a lowland, high car usage, low mass transport usage compared to Europe, cheaper fuel, less carbon tax level. I think it's three things...first, low use of diesel cars for passenger vehicles. Second, North American suburbs have a lot more green space than the dense compact areas of Europe. Third, EVERYONE has air conditioning in the area, which means every building is taking air in, filtering it, and goes back into the outside environment filtered lowing the outside AQI. The air conditioned buildings provide protected areas for people when AQI levels are high. In the house I live, despite reaching an AQI of 75 outside due to forest fires, the house indoor AQI was 1 due to the HEPA filtering and recirculation of the air conditioning.
Here in the US we have many who are proud to breathe polluted air and drink polluted water while stuffing billions into the hands of those responsible.🇺🇸
Unfortunately we have our fair share of those fools here in Europe. The issue where I live is actually farming - the entire country is extremely over farmed (biggest food exporter in the world after USA and we're one of the smallest EU countries). The crazy thing is that the entire industry is at very best break-even but most likely economically negative given the huge healthcare costs it creates.
@@radicalbyte We muddily do what we must,until we bodily bust - K.Vonnegut
In India we have now even stopped complaining...our PM is taking us straight to Sun & Moon😁😠😔
People used to live in much worse conditions. Clean air is a result of wealth and wealth is a result of previous pollution.
You can reduce wealth and have more expensive manufacturing but those who are poor will suffer the most.
In either case poorest suffer as they move to polluted areas to seek employment.
These polluted areas are polluted because they are productive.
That said the issue could be resolved but air is another tragedy of the commons.
congrats on beating Russia to landing on the moon... well in a controlled manner... , pollution aside, you should be proud. @@jerryjerry20
I came to Belgium two weeks ago from the US. I live in Texas, so the air isn’t the best, but I had an asthma attack for the first time in four years in Belgium. I was choking. I thought my asthma was gone but the pollution triggered it. I’m really glad the Belgian people saved my life.
Where in Belgium were you?
Antwerp region is one big chemo dump.
Anything goes in Belgium.
To divert attention the whole society is nitpicky on all kinds of little rules amd details.
@Yogi_Ravensome parts of texas are incredibly humid. its a massive state tho, so it depends where from texas
where do you live in texas?? someplace rurual im guessing
No problem we will close the Antwerp harbor. @@bobdebouwer7835
This is an extremely important topic that I wish had more public attention/mindshare.
When you really look at the numbers of severe illness and death caused by fine particulate matter pollution, it's especially insane that Germany quit nuclear power before it quit coal. (And actually extended its use of coal to fill the gap left in base-load/nighttime power generation.)
It's like banning plane travel because you're worried about a crash, and then making everyone travel by car instead, which is actually much more deadly.
That's Germanic ingenuity: a knee-jerk reaction followed by wondering about, "How could the physician die on the job when I kicked back ?" 😆
What this tells you is that the current German coalition government was never truly "green" but anti-nuclear. And when it comes to nuclear energy in Germany, the anti-nuclear movement in Germany and the leftist based protest groups which became the Green Party were funded by the then Soviet Union. Why did the USSR do this? Because the US under Ronald Reagan parked Pershing nuclear missiles on West German soil after the West German leadership actually wondered if the US truly would come to the aid of West Germany if the USSR with its massive tank formations suddenly crossed the border. The USSR was incensed, because the nukes negated the tank and manpower advantage, so the USSR funded hysteria about nuke power, so that average Germans would ask their government to tell the Americans to remove their nukes. I'm sure with the current Ukraine war, the Ukrainians wished Biden acted like Reagan and parked nuclear weapons on Ukrainian soil to keep Putin in his place.
EU sent notice to poland for using their coal, so why not do same for germany... this is puzzling
@@effexon
Maybe it's because Poland is already using so much coal that the pollution in Poland is much higher than that in Germany.
Germany did have a push for generating much renewable energy. I think that Angela Merkel's plan to shut down all nuclear reactors by using Russian natural gas as a transition fuel fell apart due to Russia's using its natural gas as an economic weapon to support its attempted and failed annexation of Ukraine opposed by Germany. Germany does have much coal so it went back to using more coal.
Poo-tin made everyone "travel by car." Of course, Germany could have bought U. S. A.'s fracked gas but that costs much more than locally produced coal in Germany for sure.
everything you say is correct.
Honestly, only banning cars from cities really helps. Foster biking and public transport. This will lead to new investments and makes everybody more healthy.
The amount of money that is being wasted for cars is outstanding.
There are so many sources of air polution, just removing old cars is not enough, new heavier cars also emit massive amounts of brakedust and material from their tyres as do delivery trucks etc... The worst thing is... many new heavy (poluting) cars have a HEPA filter protecting those on the inside while still harming those on the outside. It seems unfair to those of us on a bike...
Yes.... SUVs need to die...
We should ban bikes too. Bikes also pollute.
Alas consumer credit banks don't want to stop selling credit for expensive SUVs
@@AllisterCaine I agree if the more hardcore 4x4 stay for off paved roads work uses like forestry, agriculture and such.
A switch to public transport is key.
As long as travel times are two to three times longer using public transport in the cities and service is lacking in rural areas, the chances are low.
@@HolgerJakobs underground trains are faster than cars: always
@@anhidric1 Only if they are available. In most places, they aren't. And most times, there is no direct connection. Switching trains and platforms costs additional time.
@@HolgerJakobs that's why important to address those issues, that's what the switch entails, it has to be top down. There are major cities where public transport or cycling _is_ faster. And many cases even in smaller places where, depending on your circumstances, it will be faster to use non-car transport rather than go through traffic, find a parking spot and do all the other logistical things related to driving a car.
@@viliussmproductions Very true, but it is going to take decades. In the last 20 years, public transport hasn't improved, but declined. Bad decisions of the politicians. I didn't vote for those.
Great report. Finland has very strict rules when it comes to butcher their nature for building purposes, no wonder why Finland has the minimal pollution
More than 20% of Finns live inside that red dot, but it's pretty good elsewhere.
@@Mephitinae it's bad in spring after the snow melts off the roads and before people take their winter tires off but otherwise it's fine unless you're near busy traffic a lot. i live in the helsinki metropolitan area outside of the densely built up area and the air is already a lot better here than in the core of the city. i think not letting people drive to the city centre with studded tires would do a lot for improving air quality.
@@Mephitinae also to be honest if i got to make the descisions i would do what barcelona did and ban through-traffic from a lot of the streets but i don't think the right wingers here are gonna let that happen without a big fight and crying about "bicycle-communists"
Air quality gets terrible in Finland as well in spring and also in winter when exhaust from burnt wood gets trapped by inversion.
Because in the past they were buying resourses from neighbouring countries so cheap that it didnt even make sence to use their own
To me all DW presenters are eloquent. I really enjoyed the quality of questions Mr. Goff asked. The wording was excellent.
The wording is not the topic of the news, is pollution 😢😢
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They just report the information and have absolutely no biases. Just facts and information.
That's what news used to be in the U.S. . Now even the reporters and news has opinions.
The DW does a great job at being very unbiased. It's very much appreciated.
I was in Bogota Colombia last year for three weeks vacation. I think that maybe take 10 years off my life . the car, bus , truck , and motorcycle pollution is through the roof 😢
3 weeks is a very long time in Bogota
According to your calculation I should be dead already since I was in Jakarta for eight months - Bogota had the cleanest mountain air one can imagine compared to there.
I live in Alberta, Canada, and this summer, we had a HUGE problem with wildfires/air pollution. The air quality was so very bad that there were many days when we were told to stay inside and not leave the house. We already have a very short summer season here (mostly very cold winters from October to April), and now we can't even be outside in summer? We spend most of our time indoors. What kind of life is this?!
Agreed, it’s been a terrible summer. It seems like the air quantity took a dive every weekend.
@@Gwynarra2 Yup, exactly! People need to take charge, it starts with the individual. There are many things one can do to save the planet. Don't wait for those hopeless politicians to make changes because, in the end, all they care about is their own financial well being....
@@Miki0603 Yes, you're right, it has been a problem for a few years now, but I think this summer was especially bad.
the Canadians really need to be told not to use fires in a forest!!
Oh ok, I didn't think about the lightning.Yeah, but cigarette sparks?? thats humans and trains also.@@Miki0603
It's fascinating how the 2.5 ppm map pretty much is a population map over Europe, too. There's no country that has managed to keep air pollution in check, even places like Norway, which has a lot of space and air to diffuse its local pollution. Time to step up!
Time to cull the herd, real talk.
If we think about the long list of serious problems currently threatening mankind, of which air pollution is only one, it's so obvious that despite all the meetings and summits etc that they attend, world leaders are totally incapable of solving any of these problems. That's why our Creator is very shortly going to remove all human governments and everyone causing suffering for others. His just and righteous, heavenly Kingdom government, which Jesus preached about, is the means by which he will do this. (Luke 8:1; Matthew 6:10; Daniel 2:44; Proverbs 2:21, 22) The Kingdom will undo all the harm done by greedy, selfish people, and it will bring true peace and security to the earth. (Micah 4:3, 4; Psalm 37:10, 11) The needs of every individual person will be lovingly cared for. (Isaiah 65:21, 22) Tears of sorrow will be changed into tears of joy. (Revelation 21:4) These wonderful changes are imminent!
Atleast its not as bad as in China, where a literal persistent smog presides over a lot of cities. The only time the CCP does something about it is when a city is in the public spotlight - like what they did during the olympics.
@@sandradixon6205 don't do drugs and UA-cam at the same time, pls.
Individually, we can solve this: ditch your car.
This again is one case where nothing changes because large corporations (in this case car manufacturers) profit more from the status quo while there are high societal costs that they are not paying. I live in one of the most polluted cities in Germany. We need better public transportation and far better bike infrastructure and we need to severely limit the entry of cars to our inner city, but that just won’t happen.
Du hast eine Alternative vergessen... Wegziehen!
@@melchiorvonsternberg844 Das ist offensichtlich keine Alternative, wenn man mehr als zwei Sekunden drüber nachdenkt. Während individuelle Stadtbewohner unter Umständen wegziehen können (was allerdings oft arbeitsplatztechnisch, sozial und finanziell belastend ist und in vielen Fällen das Problem der Luftverschmutzung verschlimmern wird, weil man außerhalb wohnend typischerweise stärker auf ein Auto angewiesen ist), kann man das schlecht der gesamten Bewohnerschaft einer Stadt raten. Man kann ja schlecht eine Stadt einfach zerstreuen und das wäre auch definitiv nicht sinnvoll. Der Vorschlag "Wegziehen" ist einfach keine systemische Lösung. Luftverschmutzung ist aber ein systemisches und kein individuelles Problem. Systemische Probleme mit individuellen Lösungsvorschlägen lösen zu wollen, führt nicht weiter. Demgegenüber sind systemische Lösungsansätze denkbar. Einige davon habe ich genannt.
@@p.s.224Danke für die Darlegung von Fakten, deren ich mir durchaus bewusst war. Ich wollte dich nur verarschen, du Stadtkind...
London has had a charge on cars entering Central London for a decade, and they are extending it at the moment - so it is possible, it just needs the political will from your politicians. It isn't popular but the original measure made some difference. Once the ban on the sale of new ICE powered cars comes in then the situation should gradually improve Europe-wide over the following decade or two as people buy new electric cars and the old ICE cars are gradually scrapped. Of course, German Greens pushing their country into closing down nuclear plants and re-opening lignite burners was an absurd decision for so many reasons. But planting trees in cities and replacing old heating systems have benefits for both climate change and air quality.
Good points. Too many industries profit from maintaining the status quo at the expense of the environment. This has to CHANGE at some point.
Brake dust (fine dust) is very deadly. Even if EVs just half the CO2 emission, their regenerative braking can add a lot to improve air quality in the cities!
True, but it is mostly because EV's are heavier because of their battery packs. Bigger petrol cars have the same issue. There needs to be more limits on car sizes or at least their purchase should be discouraged. SUV's for instance are less economical, emit more and are less safe for people outside and inside of them (heavier and more blind spots). I think it's crazy there are not policies for this. The company I work is switching all vehicles to electrical cars, but some of them are big extra heavy SUV's.
Still doesn't address the dust from the road and tyre degradation.
Degradation grows exponentially with mass
Regenerative braking doesn't cause brake dust as it simply uses the electric motor to recharge the battery. Their normal braking would add to the brake dust but not regenerative braking
The very act of braking causes brake dust. Regenerative braking systems don't stop brake dust from being produced.
Besides, those heavy great EV's need the brakes to work harder. The tyres are supporting a much heavier car and so the wear on them is harder. I wouldn't be surprised if EV's were adding to the problem rather than reducing it.
What we 'really' need is better public transport systems - for all, subsidised so they are a much 'cheaper' way to travel - rather than being the same price as one person taking their car for that journey instead.
If my low income family takes the bus into town, it costs £12 for our return tickets. If we take the car, it costs £2.50 there and back. Buses are often cancelled. How is that any encouragement to take the bus?
More services, more subsidies, more reliability, better connections between rail and bus routes, family package deals - and they'll have less pollution.
@@debbiehenri345 could you please explain how regenerative braking creates dust? Normal braking works through friction of a brake disc on a brake pad which causes dust to be produced as both wear down from the friction. Regenerative braking has no touching parts and instead uses the spinning of the motor (connected to the wheels) to induce an electric current in the coiles in the motor which causes electricity to flow into the battery. It is similar to the force you would experience if you move two repelling magnets past each other. It does not rely on friction and therefore should not produce brake dust.
Here in the US, wildfires cause very significant drops in air quality. It used to be only some localized pockets, but this year it has been very bad with huge fires in Canada.
Seriously! I live in Michigan and the smoke kept blowing all over us for like 3 months.
Last year Washington DC ordered Us Forest to burn before forest dept sent data breaking US law unfortunately officials want pension so no whistle being blown
Sorry about that, it's even worse up here
You can prevent wildfires by investing into preventive measures against wildfires such as brush removal and early detection systems but the governments cut corners and do not care about such things.
California often burns but it's hard to invest into something that will not effect the current election cycle.
@@princeofexcess That's a big part of it, my uncles all worked in disaster mitigation up here in Western Canada, and have been talking for decades about how the government needed to be doing more controlled burns. However, climate change is a big factor too, anyone who denies it at this point has no clue what they're talking about. I've seen the glaciers near my hometown shrink to less than a fifth of their size over just the last two decades, every year it just gets hotter and hotter and it magnifies the mistakes made by the government
They never talk about Belgrade. Last year it was the most poluted major city in the world at least a handfull of times.
Here in India none of the parties don't even pretend to do anything about the air pollution. We have an average AQI between 100-200.
Yes it is insanity, but hopefully the fission plants will soon be running and will start having electric cars! India has one of the few Luna probes and is progressing fast!
Stop burning coal.
Indians don't connect their own actions with the consequences of just don't care at all, "due to our poverty" and "great numbers."
That's Socialism without concern to achieve the social good of clean air, clean water, clean land, clean people, clean government, clean finance, etc.
Start buying uranium from Africa
@@stevenhenry5267I don't think you understand what causes those pollution levels in India
EU: there's pollution in our air!
India: you breath air?
Only the Delhi and Mumbai regions have polluted air.
EU makes sure our air is polluted. We get a couple of days with blue sky, when lucky, and then they spray the sky with chemtrails that afterwards cover the sky. And not contrails which evaporate.
@@akr.... stop the cap
Reminds me again about one statement i heared a while ago along the line of:
'Say even if climate change scientists would be wrong about how they interpret their data, it wouldn't still too bad to have clean air and water and none poluted lands at the end.'
Our Creator has promised that very shortly he's going to "bring to ruin those ruining the earth". (Revelation 11:18) His righteous, heavenly Kingdom government is currently poised to take over the rule of the entire earth and it will undo all the harm done by greedy, selfish people. (Luke 8:1; Matthew 6:10) It will remove all human governments along with those who refuse to live in harmony with others, our beautiful planet, and all life on it. (Daniel 2:44; Proverbs 2:21, 22) There will be true peace and security on the earth where everyone's needs will be lovingly cared for. (Micah 4:3, 4; Psalm 37:10, 11) Everything will be completely free of pollution. These wonderful changes are imminent!
@@sandradixon6205challenge not mentionning god or religion in youtube comment section: impossible.
I live in a rural area of BC Canada, and there are trees all around me. Unfortunately, the AQI has been over 50 (the dividing line between a green or good evaluation and yellow or moderate) for half of the past three weeks. Trees by themselves aren't enough.
your trees are also on fire, largest fires in a long time .... that makes a difference
If there are enough of the big ones, it good enough for me.
Trees help air quality. Unfortunately, recent distant forest fires did not help - caused by both lightning and human activity
We want it all but haven't realized that with this many people on the planet, we just can't do that. We want clean air. We want a vibrant economy. Something has been breaking here; our planet.
Ah, but the billionaires will save us! The holy trinity of Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg will invent some miracle so we don't have to change anything!!!
OK, sorry, I can't keep that level of sarcasm up any longer 🤣
overpopulation is a myth
@@peterclarke7240 lol... You probably meant 3 of the 4 horsemen of the apocalyptic...
I was in New York city for a week....mid way through I couldn't wait to get out and get a breath of fresh air. I don't know how people do it.
Went to china advising a transportation company in Henan. Which itself is an island popular with tourists, couldn’t breath couldn’t taste the whole time. Smog blocks 30% to a high of 70% sunlight in the bad days. When I got into LAX swore I’d never complain about air quality again
Thanks for addressing the issue.
You European?
as a cyclist commuting just 15 minutes in a small city (Timisoara) in Romania, my eyes are burning after cycling to work, while avoiding as much as possible the main roads...
This did not surprise me, even when diving in Greece i breath the toxic fumes of cars passing by while the shops are filling the gas bottles...
Wait a minute, EU has the most strict laws when it comes to air quality are you guys saying it's not working?
Just checked my place in northern Poland, it says it was 20 to 40 today. Kinda mindblowing how high that is.
It's the cars. Reduce the amount of cars on the road and also plant trees on every street
@@s87-d7d High, Goober?
@moosesandmeese969
Start with your car then go plant some trees on “your street”……..
as a matter a fact throw out your computer, cell phone, chuck your washer, dryer, stove, microwave, refrigerator, AC and/or heating unit, your toilet and shower and/or tub, don’t take a plane or bus or train anywhere etc etc etc………
Oh and go eat those “styrofoam peanuts” from your last Amazon delivery from China that was delivered to whatever residence you’re currently dwelling in……….
Yep, most of these cities have very little industry anymore but still a ton of PM2.5. Paris even gets most of its electricity from zero air pollution nuclear and hydro. It's clear that cars are the biggest part of the problem in Europe.
@@s87-d7d and I see you as part of the problem
@@s87-d7d there are bigger issues in, for instance, China, India, and anywhere downwind of a coal plant. Natural gas furnaces and appliances are quite bad as well. That said, cars are generally the biggest problem in terms of PM2.5.
Where are the links to the air quality maps that were used in this report? I would like to review & compare the info.
I've been wearing N-95 masks outdoors for almost a decade as it's good for filtering air pollution. Can't rely on governments to do anything right and polluters should be paying higher fines to cover the costs.
Tottally agree Europe should the entire world for 300 years of "development" from planetary destruction.
@SA-ks9vz
And yet those N95 masks you have been wearing for “10 years” aren’t biodegradable……… guess you’re doing your part…….. polluting…….. you should be fined for your 10 years of polluting and the fines should be higher in your case considering you’ve been doing it for at least 10 years according to yourself………. Either that or you have thousands of masks shoved into plastic bags(which aren’t biodegradable, by the way) in whatever residence you dwell in (oh and by the way go look around your particular residence and let me know how many items you have that aren’t biodegradable) and how much pollution you are putting out daily…….. I’m curious………..
since apparently “you’re doing everything right”…………. So in conclusion I can’t relay on you to do “everything right” either or anything right for that matter of fact…………. But hey keep “patting yourself on your back” because you’ve been wearing a N95 mask outside for the past 10 years……..
though you probably haven’t figured it out yet but I’ll inform you.
You are a hypocrite, nothing more and nothing less………..
Does this contribute to waste pollution? I know with mask mandates throughout Covid had serious environmental impacts, would this be any different?
@@OllieX123 It's a trade off since governments knew about these impacts in the 1970s and did nothing about it, we have to either pay with our depleted health or use protection until it's fixed and they take it seriously. They are trying to come up with reusable silicone N-95 masks, so that might help the impact.
@@OllieX123 There are masks with replaceable filters so not much pollution compared to the average plastic pollution.
I live in Austria. Many people switched from heating with gas to wood stoves. You can hardly breath on cold winter evenings when you take a walk outside...😢
Because of the high gasprices.
I dunno for the rest of Europe, but here in my part of Germany one big issue is that there´s lots of good solutions but absolute abhorrent implementation. Like generally requiring low energy homes is a good idea. But forcing half the rural population to sell their old farms to Chinese "investors" because the owners can´t afford the costs to renovate their houses to the new energy standard, isn´t going to help at all. Neither is the prevention of wide spread solar power usage, by pretty much regulating to whole sector to a hold. At the same time, personal interest of certain politicians gets in the way. Like how they reduce spending on train infrastructure and propagate to own multiple cars to rural people, because why having one efficient car, if you can have two giant inefficient SUV´s?
Freedom culture, amirite?!
The main problem is privet car centric transportation system, change that and will will solve multiple BIG problems at once !
I'd say coal power plants are a larger issue.
Australia also has poisoned air, poisoned water, poisoned agricultural produce.
Bring back Covid!
The air quality was superb when no one was out and about creating pollution.
Humanity always wait to the last minute to do something. Be it tax returns, or climate change.
Unfortunately, planet climate is like a fright train, it take a lot to start or stop it.
Freight.
The only one fright-ening and fear mongering is you.
You do realize Covid killed millions of ppl and created mass poverty in many countries
Yeah, how about we can have permanent home office… why waste time and energy going into the office when I can solve everything from home. Ridiculous. If people want to meet up with team members they can go to the office but most people prefer working from home at least 2 or 3 day a week.
Paris ruined my lungs. I now have chronic asthmatic bronchitis. Many of my friends became asthmatic during their time in France (Paris).
Because everyone smoke
You can't be serious. I live in Paris for 10 years now, and none of the person I know have such problems... Your health was probably not good before, don't be so dramatic. Exceeding pollution thresholds happen less than 15 days a year in Paris. It's nothing compared to what happen in any other cities in the world
Does this mean we can sue corporations for contaminating the air? Or, more likely, laws to ban cars or at least to restrict movements.
Corporations Own us 😅 we are doomed to die a slow and painful death
They should reduce smoking specially in front of kids. Parents snoking in front of kids are really sick.
two many people, too many plants, little space
If Europe’s air quality is that bad I don’t even wanna know how bad the air I’m breathing in here in the northeast USA
The US actually has better air quality than every country in Europe besides 4
You forced Germany back to coal,prolonged a war and a winter with no LNG from Russia?? And your craping on air pollution of a car
Germans forced themselves back to coal. As a population, we've basically brainwashed ourselves over decades into being extremely irrationally afraid of nuclear and ignoring all hard science that contradicts this belief. Mass hysteria - it's a wild phenomenon.
I live in Catania, Italy, since 10 months. Here you can't even go for a 20 min walk because the air is so poluted that you get sick. The 99% of the cars are diesel and clearly without any kind of control from the authorities like the german Tüv or the spanish ITV.
5 micriograms/m^3 of what? Nitrogen oxides, phosphorous oxides, sulfur oxides, carbon soot, hazardous organic compounds? This is an obvious issue. News agencies need to do their homework or hire scientific staff.
If that map is accurate, Finland has some f***ing good air.
because it has low population density outside of capital....in helsinki is same as other european cities
It's not though. While capital region has worse air quality than the rest of the nation it still is a lot better than southern/eastern/central Europe.
Damn. I'm Swedish, and I thought my little town would be in the green, but it appears I'm just in the red, just barely.
It's probably like 3-4 qg/m3 European parliament just needs excuse for people to stop burning wood in their homes because they can't tax that.
That's how the saying goes: "Do you believe me or your lying eyes?". If you set the limits low enough, you can sound the alarm all the time. The people nowadays don't even know what real pollution looks and feels like.
This data is showing pollution levels in the summer when air pollution is always higher due to high pressure systems & less precipitation. Replacing traditional cars with electric cars won't help much because in many countries like Germany they will be powered by coal powered plants. Also air pollution from China & India, the biggest polluters can be carried to Europe with the jet stream.
thats good point.... they found out ships moving to non sulphuric fuels cleaned up whole northern african continent area having effect in weather patterns.
Äh, nope! The renewable energy level in Germany is in avarage, more than 50% today...
The equation is very simple; the more economic ''growth'', the more emissions & pollution
And exponential economic growth is not sustainable
@@06howea1Of course not
This is not about trees and capture of CO2. It’s about toxins from burning hydrocarbons. Electric transportation is what’s needed, especially to eliminate Diesel.
The city is no place for cars.
EVs have a huge environmental and social impact as well. See lithium production. Cars in general need to go away. They just take up precious space and are having an air and noise polltuion impact.
I remember traveling from North America to Holland back in 1983 and back then I thought the air quality in Europe was bad.
We should very strictly limit cars in cities, unless you actually need it for your job or life take public transport
Cut it out already with this pandemic bs.
When you mention the WHO air quality limits, it is important to note that they were significantly tightened in 2021!
Please do something. There are cars everywhere in cities. My streets have zero trees and three lanes for cars. How is that even legal?
One step would be to get rid of cruise ships. Speaking from a coastal city, most of our air (and sea) pollution derives from those monstrosities dumping waste in the gulf and even docking here with their engines on. Incalculable ecological damage.
When a government has given tax cuts on vehicles because they were polluting so little, the same cars shouldn't be banned from cities because they polute so much. Government politics have to be more forward-looking and consistent in the long run!
Important video!
Not mentioning wood burning in homes for cooking and heating is not serious, wood burning is the worst pollutant
When I lived in a large Asian city in a certain communist nation* back in 2011-2012, the entire winter was usually up above 500 AQI, sometimes above 900. When I moved back 2017-2019, it was a lot better, but would still be above 150 most of the winter. I wound up developing asthma from it - the whistling in my lung would wake me up at night. I wore an N95 mask every time I set foot outside and ran filters 24/7, 365 days a year in my home and it still damaged my health like that.
*I'm not saying which nation cuz their puppets love to get on comments like this and start spewing out nonsense about how terrible the USA's air quality is (they always assume you're American if you're saying anything even slightly negative about their country.)
I know it is china because of there is winter and communism. No winter in south east asia
US is not safe
Ah yes, but what about America, hmm?
Sorry, I'm joking. 🤣
Air pollution is an everyone problem, but waiting for everyone else to solve their issues before we solve ours is the most batshit selfish illogic anyone can use as an excuse for inaction. I cannot stand the sort of people you mention, because they'll happily let the world burn rather than do anything about it.
It's the equivalent of refusing to flush your stinky toilet because your neighbour won't flush theirs, but the reason they won't flush theirs is because you won't flush yours. It's childishly pathetic, and hurts everyone.
We know it's china and you're American. Nobody else has an issue with China being communist
Let me guess... Large asian communist nation.. hmm... North Korea!?
Does burning coal in Germany have something to do with this?
I've been walking through the German rural, low pop village in meck-pom last week where my grandparents live.
It feels like the amount of cars around has exponentially increased and every family needs at least 2 cars compared to 15 years ago.
Same in Lübeck where I grew up. There didn't seem as many cars and traffic when I was a kid, but these days they are everywhere.
I wonder if that has to do with it or there is a graph of the no2 concentration per year/decade.
Not even gonna talk about the big cities, since they are undoubtedly screwed.
Same here in rural Brandenburg. It´s insane, especially when they start building in or around a bigger city and all the traffic gets rerouted via the surrounding countryside streets.
I remember a time, like 25ish years ago or so, where we often didn´t even need a car. My grandfathers brother would takes us to town by horse cart and we´d come back at the end of the day via the school bus bringing all the kids home. lol
Unimaginable today.
To add on that, I used to live in a village near Munich, an hour to Munich centre by the Sbahn. While living there I still saw horse carts and such, especially in the weekend. But overall, the public infrastructure was simply very poor and unreliable. There were only 2 Sbahn/hour going through the village during rush hours, and just 1 Sbahn/hour regularly. In the winter they constantly cancelled the train, leaving pupils, students, and workers stranded. You simply cannot rely on the Sbahn to take you to school or work on time. So people were forced to invest in cars.
I eventually moved back to Munich centre because of the Sbahn issue. The public transportation still gets worse and worse each day. I don‘t see how German people can rely less on their cars when that is the only reliable mode of transportation they have left.
@@thaomac2907is it because cities grow in population so fast, infrastructure simply cant keep up? also downtowns are often crowded as is, causing traffic bottlenecks and solutions like OP mentioned.... train lines are very difficult to expand once built as city grows around them leaving no space. I live in big city region and noticed same, life quality is simply sufferably bad without car, despite for commute it is needed to use public, but any other use car is useful... friend family got car to move kids to kindergarten (sometimes one kid is in one place, other several km in other place ) + shopping groceries. Irony in bigger and bigger cities is, I assume from your description, that lot of people working in city cant afford to live there, so they are dependent on commute via train or car to get to their job. Small town/village life is more ideal but there is rarely any fulltime jobs there, while commute would be like as kid, walk or cycling.
@@thaomac2907 Yeah it defo adds to the problem.
Things like the 49€ Ticket is a nice start, but kinda what's the point if you never know whether you can get there on time.. I got stuck for 2h in Neumünster the other day while on my way back to my uni's town. Couldn't imagine going to work with such an unreliable service.
I mean I pay for a specific route and a specific time associated with that route. Idk how it can be acceptable to leave paying customers stranded like that and even if I were to say take a taxi because I've got an important appointment, I'd still have to pay myself upfront and then go through an unreal pile of paperwork to get me 80 euro back from the DB, hardly being worth the effort.
Also the rural regions have really poor infrastructure in general. While they can look modern, 1 bus/hour is simply not enough to offer people who have cars a valid alternative, I agree.
At this point you might as well say "I'm going on a road trip" when traveling by public transport, cause you can't ever be sure if you'll actually arive at your destination on time -.-
Makes the case for more Nuclear, less coal plants. So obvious.
Its rare that regulations come into place because out of the "goodness of their hearts"
I am really not a fan of the modern, lobby-centric way of policy-making, but there are still some politicians, that kept their drive to make things better. Especially those, that got into politics, because they wanted to change things. I feel that the EU has an above average track-record when it comes to making policies for the people, at least compared to our local German government... Wich isn't saying much, to be honest, but still.
I think that so called "career-politicians" are a big part of the problem. It's hard to feel represented, when non of your representatives know what live is like in the "real" world.
Well as long as we, Europeans, will not ban bad quality everyday products and appliances and mass produced food, which is stuffed with many boosters. We would never live in clean, healthy and economically efficient environment.
Your car, refrigerator, TV, furnitures, clothes everything you use on daily basics should be done with best quality materials, which would last you the most, while they have as little impact on polution as it's possible.
1:01: 🌍 Air pollution continues to be a major problem in Europe, with most people living in areas where air quality falls short of World Health Organization standards.
4:26: ⚠ The EU plans to introduce stricter limits on air pollution, better monitoring of air quality, and easier access to justice for citizens when pollution rules are breached.
7:26: 😷 Air pollution in Europe is a major health concern, causing premature deaths and various diseases, especially in children, but not enough action is being taken to address the issue.
10:42: 💨 Air pollution is a major environmental threat to health in Europe and globally, with 98% of people living in areas exceeding WHO recommendations.
14:44: 🌍 Air pollution remains a significant health issue despite efforts to improve air quality.
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EVERYTIME the Paris Mayor has been trying to reduce the CARs, ... there has been a hudge rise in the Stereotypes and caricatures and criticism about HEr, about the Paris Mayor and government, and so much has been done for bicycles in the past 10 years, ... and so much morecriticism has arised from that policies, telling this mayor is bad etc... you know , you can't advocate Againste cars and have a good political image. She did a lot, ...let's hope the next paris mayor will ... do More. Still too much cars and CO2 gaz in the city center. WIth millions of inhabitants and millions of tourists, ... we do need to reduce cars dont we ? .... ??? dont we?
If you visit Kazakhstan, especially cities like
Almaty, Pavlodar, Ust'-Kamenogorsk and Astana,
then you will not only feel the air pollution but see it with your own eyes!
Therefore, trust me, Europe is still far away from it.
We have high cancer diseases from that, not just asthma...
Hello! Are you from Kazakhstan 🇰🇿? Вы из Казахстана ?
Which city are you from?
@@brigittelikeslanguages8916 Hello!
Yes, I am originally from Pavlodar, but my whole family moved to Astana some years ago.
@@argyntobyqty6496 hello, interesting. I haven't been to Pavlodar, only been to Astana twice- once in summer, once in 'winter' -last November- was snow. There were quite many cars in Astana. There were constructions underway too.
Entire world being on fire and wars sure do not help air quality
Don't forget to check iodine deficiency. Car pollutants have Bromine which can displaced you iodine too.
9:14 it’s not expensive; healthcare is the most expensive and painful of all.
It’s nothing to panic about. Air quality in most large European cities was way, way worse 100 years ago when we were all burning wood and coal for heat. PM10 and PM2.5 levels in most cities have fallen ever since, to a fraction of what they were, and they are still falling. We’re having one crisis after another, Covid, immigration, climate, heat waves, forest fires, nitrogen emissions… this is one thing we can be relaxed about. And anyone suffering from respiratory issues: count yourself lucky that things are better than they were 10, 20, 50 and 100 years ago. Much better.
They want everyone on energy sources they can tax this has nothing to do with health just money as always.
So u r so developed. Development does not mean taking drugs, illegal afairs, using casmetics for beautyful outlook etc. Developed means mentally thinking better.
PM 2.5 crosses into the blood and thickens it like flour turning chicken broth into thick gravy, straining the heart. This report is not fear-mongering.
How cigarettes are legal ? Pollution directly to your lungs 🫁 ....and you pay for it!!! 🤦♂️
I just checked the AQI in my rural area in Holland: 104! = 33.75 mug/m^3 where 5 is allowed. Bad day today
Yeah. And so Germany is turning off the nuclear power plants to turn on the coal ones. That will improve the air quality for sure. All this arsenic, lead, mercury, selenium, chromium, cadmium, ash, nitrogen oxide, sulphur dioxide will surely make our health here better. And all this because of fear mongering. Good job, Germany!
The best way to reduce ecological transportation costs is to reduce the weight of the vehicle. The average vehicle weighs 3000 pounds. This is way too heavy. If you take the weight of a bicycle, compared to a person, the ratio of a 35 pound bike and a 170 pound person is around 5 to 1. The ratio between a car and person is 18 to 1. This means the bicycle is 13 times more efficient to travel with compared to a car. So, with that said, an optimally designed passenger car to carry five people should weigh less than 1200 pounds.
Do everyone a favor: cut down the ad breaks so we can actually keep up with what you're talking about since it's important.
During the pandemic, the scientists that knew about fresh air and filtration systems were defeated by biomedicine in a struggle for power. We are ignorant about air pollution. Fresh air needs to be mandated and regulated and we need a strong cultural focus where clean air is a competitive parameter. Eg The CO2 levels are displayed live on Apple and Google Maps for bars and restaurants.
Ohh that is such a good idea about live CO2 measures! When you know what you know about the on gong risk of the virus, it’s maddening to be left to our own devices so completely. If people could have simple strategies like this show them what is invisible, in the here and now, other more helpful social behaviours would kick in.
They are also the second top polluters in the world, what did they expect?
Let me guess, the EU will ban cows 😂, so that rich politicians can still drive their porches in the centers. Humanity is a joke
Agriculture and animal farming has a huge impact on the environment indeed. I think the time is running out for that as well.
@@aceyage I dont think agriculture is a problem. Currently theres smog and fog in all cities. The province & nature are doing quite well.
@@wizaaeed Ground water pollution! Fertilizer production!
Humanity is OK, satanism is a joke and its hypnotised followers. Happy Revelation!
Imagine smoking 24 hours a day.
Just look at all those horrible heavy polluting vehicles stuck in endless stationary or very slow moving queues you just know things have to change fast. There’s the pollution but also the danger these heavy vehicles pose to bikes and small, light, electric vehicles which are the obvious solution to our urban transport nightmare.
without those heavy vehicles you will be hungry,no food on your table,no clothes to wear,no electricity,stores would be empty ,no gas on gas stations..look around you everything around you is brought to you by those heavy vehicles seems you have a beef on heavy vehicles? thanks the the truckers while your asleep we are working to deliver your needs!
Ban cars, build a wall around the city and destroy those evil vehicles with ATGMs
@@BikolanongLayas21
Cars and trucks are inefficient at best. Ever tried understanding context? Whining about valid criticism... sheesh.
@@BikolanongLayas21we need a much more extensive railroad network to deliver the food and goods we need.
I'm in Chicago and the air quality is horrible. My asthma has only gotten worse over the years.
😔 feel sorry for you. Wish your asthma eased or passed completely.
Somehow I get the impression that a significant part of the scientific community suffers from distortions of perception. Because if you look at the air pollution in Europe's cities 60 or even 50 years ago, there has been a significant improvement in air quality. And one thing should not be ignored in this context. If people decide to live in a big city and enjoy all the advantages of a larger city, then they also have to be prepared to accept the corresponding disadvantages, such as noise pollution and bad air. Nobody is forced to live in a city...
"Nobody is forced to live in a city" is a very ignorant comment. Not everyone has the freedom to choose their job and not everyone can commute for hours to get there. Sure, I'd love a lakeside cottage in the wilderness, but sadly, that doesn't come with an income. Please think before posting a comment like yours.
@@katek6808 Well... I'll make it easy for you. Is it true or not true that someone is forcing you to live in a city at gunpoint? A simple yes or no is enough for me. And since that seems to be the only stumbling block for you in my statement, you probably agree with me about the rest. At least...
@@melchiorvonsternberg844 ah, nice, a typical, unreflected and uneducated "comeback". Nobody is forcing you at gunpoint to breathe at all, so stop doing it and save all of us from your ignorance, I guess.
Didn't the Europe start the industrial revolution too.
I'm really concerned about the air pollution coming from China, India, Russia, Brazil and other developing countries.
Flash news: The rest of the world have air pollution way above the WHO level for decades.
Just. Stop. Oil. It's not a slogan, it's a demand.
Time to get rid of cars in cities and have more greenery.
In the 70ies we had the same traffic in all towns, but cars did much more pollute.
It is much much better today!
I keep wondering how much the rate of solar power generation of electricity could be raised to replace coal and oil power across the world? And how that might help to reduce air polution. Could programs to create solar electric powered trolly systems in countires across the world help clear the air and remove air poluting cars from the streets? If so then why is the EU not supporting such programs?
The EU does attempt to control pollution and promote renewable energy. The stopping of Russian Gas meant that more coal had to be burnt last winter to generate electricity. But this winter LNG will be imported through the dozen or so new FLNG terminals in the Baltic, North and Mediterranean seas. And last winter Gas consumption for heating and power generation was 15% less across Europe, this year new wind farms will be on stream amounting to 4/5GW, gas storage is full already and we look forward to the French nuclear fleet to be fully available. France has ~60GW of nuclear power but many boiler systems suffered corrosion due to the wear and tear of the water rushing through them. They have been under repair for the last 12 months, we hope they will be fully available this year, though at the moment the hot temperatures mean that they and many fossil fuel plants struggle to meet their plated output.
@@briangriffiths1285 OK so I can clearly see what Germany has done to add more solar powered systems to generate larege scale power plants... but not so much places like Greece and Italy... why is this?
@catherineleslie-faye4302
And I keep wondering how people like yourself can’t actually use the logical side of their brains…….. maybe stop posing questions based solely on “your emotional view”……….. this world contains a lot more (and I do mean a lot more) people then just you…….
@@catherineleslie-faye4302 Greece has long had solar hot water heating. Most homes have flat roofs and indeed for some tax reasons are never finished off.The flat roofs take the weight of solar panels and a big horizontal cylinder attached to them. I don't recollect seeing any renewable energy in Italy but it is 8 or 9 years since I last drove down to Rome. Quite possibly solar PV is less favoured down there because the heat at midday would restrict their output. I can imagine solar panels reaching 80 or 90 degrees C maybe higher. whereas in Northern Europe cooler weather and sea breezes reduces the heat build up on panels to a greater extent. Spain and Portugal both have wind turbines up in the central high plains. I think Spain actually achieved to produce all its electricity from wind on one occasion. And here in the UK we have some 30 GW of wind turbines and 10 GW of solar energy. The cooler Spring temperatures produce peak output from solar.We are looking forward to the largest offshore wind farm in the world to be completed in 2025 of 5 GW. Dogger Bank A,B,C and Sofia and a neighbouring area is being investigate for a 2 GW Dogger Bank D.
@@briangriffiths1285 Solar panels in the USA desert south west work in temperatures of +125*F... I was speaking of town + city wide trolly and bus systems not home hotwater heaters. I know plenty of folks even with RVs that have solar panel kits to heat water and provide electricity for fridge and stoves for decades... that is 1998 technology.
International Fresh Air Alliance (IFAA) should be made between countries like International Solar Alliance. Countries should issue a advisory to all international tourists to not visit polluted countries. We should hit the finance of that particular polluted countries if we want some improvement otherwise we are only going to see only tv show.
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Every large city I think should be completely free of any vehicles except scooters, rollerblades, bicycles etc. No electric vehicles, nothing. And little bit of dust that's still generated should be wet cleaned and vacuumed every day, not just few times a week. And speaking of all the first responders, might sound crazy, but i think good old horses could be considered. Endless ways, but one thing is clear, we can't breathe anymore, something needs to be done.
So fcuck people who are disabled?
Important topic. Choose leaders who want to do something about it.