Clearing the Air

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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**SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY INSIGHT INVESTMENT SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2019**'Read this book and join the effort to terminate air pollution.' - Arnold SchwarzeneggerAir pollution has become the world’s greatest environmental health risk, and science is only beginning to reveal its wide-ranging effects. Globally, 19,000 people die each day from air pollution, killing more than HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and car accidents combined.What happened to the air we breathe?Sustainability journalist Tim Smedley has travelled the world to try and find the answer, visiting cities at the forefront of the fight against air pollution, including Delhi, Beijing, London and Paris. With insights from the scientists and politicians leading the battle against it, and people whose lives have been affected by it, Clearing the Air tells the full story of air pollution for the first time: what it is, which pollutants are harmful, where they come from and – most importantly – what we can do about them.Air pollution is a problem that can be solved. The stories uncovered on this journey show us how.'Compulsory reading' - Chris Boardman

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-07-23
Mått:128 x 196 x 22 mm
Vikt:228 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:320
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781472953339

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Tim Smedley is an award-winning sustainability journalist. After ten years in London – first as a business journalist, latterly as a freelance writer covering the environment – he left in 2014, fleeing the polluted streets for Oxfordshire where he is now based. At first, air pollution was just another environmental story to file. But air pollution seemed to get under his skin and into his veins – literally, as it turned out – and the more he researched, the more concerned he became. Never before had an environmental story come as close to home as this. Tim has written for the Financial Times, the Guardian, The Sunday Times, New Scientist, and most recently the BBC. Clearing the Air is his first book.www.timsmedleywriter.com / @TimSmedley

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Air pollution is a serious problem that we all have the power to solve. Tim Smedley's book, Clearing the Air, shows how the fightback against air pollution works. Tim's book is action-packed and his global journey of discovery uncovers the real heroes who are taking a stand and fighting for their right to breathe clean air. Read this book and join the effort to terminate air pollution.

Innehållsförteckning

Prologue PART I: ORIGINSChapter 1: The Greatest Smog?Chapter 2: Life’s a GasChapter 3: Particulate MattersChapter 4: No Smoke Without FireChapter 5: The Dash for DieselChapter 6: Struggling to BreathePART II: FIGHTBACKChapter 7: The Greatest Smog Solution?Chapter 8: Electric DreamsChapter 9: Road RageChapter 10: What Price Fresh Air?EpilogueThe Clean Air Blueprint: For CitiesThe Clean Air Blueprint: For YouReferencesAcknowledgements