SOMETIMES, I wonder if readers of Reinventing Scotland think: “Yes, that would be nice. Wellbeing would be a lovely thing to base the economy…
SOMETIMES, I wonder if readers of Reinventing Scotland think: “Yes, that would be nice. Wellbeing would be a lovely thing to base the economy on.”
Since the Industrial Revolution, global CO2 emissions have grown exponentially. The effect of rapid rises in CO2 emissions includes increased global temperatures, negative health outcomes such as increased respiratory illnesses and crop failures/agricultural productivity reductions.
Air pollution, considered to be the world’s single largest environmental health risk, is also having an effect in Scotland. Air pollution is estimated to cause between 2500 and 3000 annual deaths here. Politicians adore individual policies, vote-winners, eight-word TV soundbites to prove they are doing something – but they are throwing pebbles in the ocean expecting it to change the tides.
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