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