The all-electric city before 2030 !

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Published the 23.10.2017 at 16h06

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Forty mayors, including London, Bogota, Cape town, Tokyo or Los Angeles, would be tempted by this due to the ” all-electric “. A powerful combination of millions of people affected by the pollution. A lobbying power for some, but that will not be too face the lobby of the automobile.

7 ile-de-france on 10 to work without a car ?

Anne Hidalgo claims that 7 Number out of 10 do not take their car to get to work. Figures less optimistic published by Airparif, which is a reference in terms of urban pollution, evoke, rather, in a report, 61 % of ile-de-france who continue to brave the ” plugs “. The same report insists on the role of traffic-more and more numerous to explain – in part – increases in air pollution.

School close to major axes : danger

All the figures are overwhelming. It is now commonplace to accuse the pollution of the air in the respiratory affections. We know that automobile traffic is a major threat, far superior to that of the atmospheric pollution background. For example, and numerous studies have shown the past few years, live or have their school near the main traffic greatly increases the risk of having respiratory problems.

Taking into account multiple factors associated with the onset of asthma (sex, respiratory history, parental smoking, etc.), air pollution plays a detrimental role incontestable on the respiratory health of children. A Danish study (Lucy Bayer-Oglesby) revealed that in Copenhagen, the close proximity of major axes of circulation plays a major role in the respiratory problems, and particularly in the shortness of the children. A greater frequency of asthma has also been found in schoolchildren exposed to higher levels of volatile organic compounds, SO2, oxides of nitrogen (NOx) and carbon monoxide. In addition, higher exposure to fine particles increases by 25 % the risk of becoming allergic to pollens. The reduction in emissions from car traffic in urban areas should help to improve the health outcomes for children with breathing and allergies.

In adults, each time the distance to the next major roadway increases by 100 meters, respiratory symptoms, and decreased 11 %… Another example : the probability of developing asthma to the effort is increased by approximately 40 % when a content of the air high in benzene, and it grows by 35 % to a significant concentration of fine particles, two parameters directly related to the car pollution.

As for the debate on the responsibility of the diesel, which has aroused a lot of controversy and that everyone agrees to find complex, it might be turn off with all the measures that go in the direction of the disappearance of the heat-engines in the future. A debate which will probably smile, because of its incongruity, our grandchildren, before the end of the century.