How fresh is your air?

The air from the earth (detail) - photograph shows the air above the horizon at Aldeburgh, Suffolk, at midday on a cloudless February day, 2007.
 

 

 

  • Air is the single most important ingredient for survival. No living person can survive without air. Yet what protection is there for our air supply - and who controls quality now?

  • Most of us suffer exposure to many air pollutants, causing or hastening 40,800 deaths/year in the UK according to the EU and more than 2 million premature deaths each year (source: World Health Organization). Yet we have no alternative but to breathe the air which surrounds us – regardless of unacceptable pollution levels. If there is a problem with our water supply, we can buy bottled water – if there is a problem with our air supply, we must breathe it anyway and live (if we can) with the consequences.

  • Most of our land is privately owned, even our water is now privately owned – inconceivable a generation ago… Will air be next...?

 

 

 

 

 

 

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