Alain Renaudins insight:

 

Atmospheric cancer is the disease of the century!

 

You cannot escape the air you breathe. When the cost of energy rises, trade-offs are possible.

When the air quality deteriorates, what do you do? You have 1 minute to get out of it.

And when your lungs are attacked and COPD is in the top of the chronic diseases (other WHO estimates) ... will you breathe with your liver?

As a reminder, since 1986, clouds no longer stop at borders. Anyway, the last few months have proved that we can be quite autonomous in producing our own air pollution, good local pollution, made in France.

 

For a long time now, we have been aware of the link between environmental risks, particularly those linked to various forms of pollution, and their consequences in terms of health risks. Air pollution is without doubt the most visible - paradoxically - and most immediately challenging phenomenon. No one can escape it, it is a 'fair' pollution in that it affects everyone, rich and poor, it is a long-term pollution but it kills today (cf WHO estimates repeatedly), and it is a pollution that hits where it hurts: our health (mine, my children's, not the - distant - health of the biosphere or the polar bears) - the public cost of public health impacts - and economic competitiveness (absenteeism, lower work rates, loss of attractiveness...).

For all these reasons, this air pollution is both very insidious... and very virtuous:

- it thwarts the theories of the climatoseptics (who could argue that air pollution is not due to human activities?)

- it forces politicians to act;

- It is urgent, bringing the long environmental deadlines closer to us;

- it costs, in lives and in currency;

- It is directly experienced and suffered by public opinion, which is less and less willing to put up with it;

- it is an accelerator of alternative innovations ...