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London, UK – As with many large cities across the world, pollution is a key factor in the quality of life of Londoners, tainting the air which people breath on a daily basis. The UK has recently failed to meet a World Health Organisation standard that limited the amount of ultra-fine particles in the air.
According to reports from Professor Annette Peters, a director at the Institute of Epidemiology at the Helmholtz Zentrum in Munich, ‘particles are a major and invisible danger to our health, especially in London, and our big cities’.
With around 10 Million people in and around London at its peak, the use of personal vehicles is still a major contributor to the unhealthy London air. In spite of an extensive underground metro system, fondly known in London as ‘The Tube’, as well as a wide network of public buses run by Transport for London, the problem is still of grave enough concern to come to the attention of the WHO.
The main hub of the pollution lies in the heart of the congestion zone, where ironically, traffic was reduced in order to cut down on harmful pollutants and gases, yet as the demographics change in certain areas, so do the levels of pollution that run in parallel to the geographic location.
With the National Health Service in the UK already crippled from under-funding and lack of resources, the UK does not need further reason to seek medical treatment, and with air pollution being a leading cause of asthma, lung cancer and other breathing difficulties, the UK must tackle this hidden killer harder than before, prior to the consequences becoming so severe that the cities and towns across the UK succumb to pollutant conditions on a par with other globally renowned polluted cities
