Editorial

It’ s certainly been a funny old year so far; you’ re probably sick of reading about it. But there area few things that stood out during the crisis, particularly the decrease of pollution in general and air pollution in particular. For the first time in decades the Hi malay a Mountains can be seen from 200 km saw a yin India; it is posited that more lives in China might have been saved from air pollution-related illnesses than the number who died from Covid 19 now the air is sweet er; in Venice the canals ran clean; and all over the world wildlife has been venturing onto quiet, traffic-less-streets. Can we keep it up when this is all settled? I doubt it. In the rush to get the world up and running again the chimneys and traffic will puff back into frantic action and no-one will have the time or inclination to put any pollution decreasing programmes into place. After all, it’ s not a quick fix. It has taken us generations to make that mess; it will take many years to address it, if we ever do. That is not to imply that industry doesn’t care about pollution. It’s just there is a conflict between what we would like to do, versus the real world. But it would benice…