Manipulated by fear over pollution figures
RE your alarmist headline ‘Hundreds of deaths caused by air pollution’.
This headline is not borne out by the article which mentions only 150 deaths in Coventry supposedly attributed to air pollution.
This is not ‘hundreds’! I am sceptical about this study, I would like to see the methodology and what they count as ‘death from air pollution’.
With most ordinary deaths no autopsy is performed and doctors usually list a blunderbuss load of co-morbidities on the death certificate because they do not really know what killed the patient.
The article interestingly uses the term ‘may have contributed to death’ twice. This expression can equally well be read as ‘may not have contributed to death’ and is a sure indicator of someone trying to peddle a narrative.
The study was carried out by Imperial College London and COPI and later on the article mentions the government’s ‘clean air strategy’, so obviously a grant was made available for this study by the government, Imperial college snapped it up and gave the government the report it wanted.
This tells you all you need to know, we are being manipulated by fear. As for the WHO levels of pollution, the WHO is a UN body and the UN is a political organisation renowned for manipulating statistics for its own ends.
These figures are trivial compared to the millions that die every year in the developing world due to indoor air pollution caused by burning wood indoors with no proper flu. Instead of wasting billions to save a few lives here the money could be far more efficiently used in giving them cheap electricity and gas from fossil fuels.
M. Pinder,
Coventry.
Just nonsense
MEPS and various attendees at the Conference on the Future of Europe held in Strasbourg recently were treated to a bizarre interpretive dance performance, the footage of which is available on Youtube and is mercifully less than 50 seconds in duration. Just think, if the likes of Alistair Campbell, Tony Blair, Nick Clegg, Anna Soubry, Michael Heseltine and countless other establishment Remainers had their way, then British taxpayers would still be subsidising this nonsense.
P. Sheehan, Coventry.