"Mums for Lungs" - air quality campaigners in the UK.
"We are an organisation of people across the UK campaigning for cleaner air to protect children’s health. ...
"We raise awareness of the health impacts of air pollution and champion effective solutions for tackling it."
“The government claims to have world-leading laws on air pollution, but they are meaningless if they are not enforced.
“The increasing number of installations in densely populated areas needs to be controlled. By continuing to allow these appliances to be installed the government is kicking the can down the road”
A unique and crucial moment has opened up for Mums for Lungs, and we need your help. We are in the next phase of our Dieselgate campaign - can you fill out our two-minute survey to tell us your lived experience of air pollution and how it has affected you and/or your family? All responses are anonymous and will form part of our evidence to the High Court at the upcoming Dieselgate court case, to show the real life and often hidden effects of air pollution, for example the sick days taken off work or school, the changes to travel routes to avoid highly polluted roads, or the time taken off work to attend hospital appointments. We have a chance, right now, to get information from the court on what car manufacturers may be hiding into the public domain. Please fill out our survey and help us demonstrate to the court how people are affected by air pollution. Thank you! Scroll down to below the survey for background information on the court case and campaign.
“domestic combustion, mostly from burning wood in stoves and open fires, releases more particulate matter pollution (PM2.5) than road traffic in the UK.
PM2.5 is a particularly harmful form of air pollution which lodges deeply in the lungs, brain and other organs.
An open fire emits 4000 times more PM2.5 than a gas boiler”
Visit mumsforlungs.org for more info on their campaign to raise awareness of the harm of burning wood.
The temperature has dropped here in #Norfolk UK in the past couple of days…I fear this point in the calendar every year because it means people start to light their #woodburners and open fires (although it’s more often the former in the city).
This means I get deluged my my neighbour’s woodsmoke. I can smell it inside our house.
And every year I go around my neighbourhood with the #MumsForLungs flyers - particularly targeting the posher streets with piles of wood outside their doors.
I support the #MumsForLungs campaign on #WoodBurning . Their resources are really informative and you can request flyers to distribute in your neighbourhood:
Äußerst spannend #Luftverschmutzung steht im Verdacht die Ausbreitung des #Corona Virus zu verstärken. Verantwortlich dafür sind wohl insbesondere Stoffe in den Abgasen von Diesel-Motoren:
Air pollution likely to make coronavirus worse, say UK experts | Environment | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/01/air-pollution-likely-to-make-coronavirus-worse-say-uk-experts
#Pandemic #Klimakrise #mumsforlungs
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