Air pollution in the modern world
Everything Electric Podcast
The Fully Charged Show
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2020
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Helen Czerski interviews one of her colleagues at University College London all about how air pollution has evolved in the city. From the most recent times to historic events, they talk about how air pollution has altered over the years.
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| 0:00.0 | The Oh, Hello and welcome to the fully charged show podcast I'm Helen Cheriskey. We've been hearing quite a lot about air pollution |
| 0:36.0 | recently because during lockdown it all seems to be changing. We've heard that |
| 0:40.0 | mentioned on some recent fully charged podcasts. I've certainly noticed out and about |
| 0:44.5 | cycling especially that the air pollution where I live in London definitely |
| 0:49.2 | changed. It went down and then it seems to be going back up as the traffic comes back. |
| 0:54.0 | And so lots of us have noticed changes, but what exactly is going on? |
| 0:57.8 | What's the science behind it all? |
| 1:00.1 | So we thought it would be great to get a proper expert to explain it all to us and that expert is Dr Gary Fuller from King's College London. |
| 1:07.6 | He runs the London Air Quality Network and he's a senior lecturer in air pollution measurement. |
| 1:13.2 | His particular expertise is urban air quality, |
| 1:16.3 | but he's also done a lot on the effects of pollution on health. |
| 1:19.9 | So this is a really critical issue right now. |
| 1:23.1 | You know, we're seeing not only if we've got a massive health emergency on the go, |
| 1:27.9 | but it's causing changes in behavior. |
| 1:29.7 | We have to decide what to do next. |
| 1:31.7 | What are we going to do? How are we going to use our roads and deal with |
| 1:35.2 | pollution after we're all allowed out after COVID's, well decreased even if it hasn't gone away? So there's lots of questions. It's all about air pollution today and it is a pleasure to |
| 1:44.8 | welcome Gary Fuller to the fully charged show podcast. |
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