Electric Cars Are Not the Answer To Air Pollution, Says Top UK Adviser (theguardian.com)

Cars must be driven out of cities to tackle the UK's air pollution crisis, not just replaced with electric vehicles, according to the UK government's top adviser. From a report: Prof Frank Kelly said that while electric vehicles emit no exhaust fumes, they still produce large amounts of tiny pollution particles from brake and tyre dust, for which the government already accepts there is no safe limit. Toxic air causes 40,000 early deaths a year in the UK, and the environment secretary, Michael Gove, recently announced that the sale of new diesel and petrol cars will be banned from 2040, with only electric vehicles available after that. But faced with rising anger from some motorists, the plan made the use of charges to deter dirty diesel cars from polluted areas a measure of last resort only. Kelly's intervention heightens the government's dilemma between protecting public health and avoiding politically difficult charges or bans on urban motorists. "The government's plan does not go nearly far enough," said Kelly, professor of environmental health at King's College London and chair of the Committee on the Medical Effects of Air Pollutants, official expert advisers to the government. "Our cities need fewer cars, not just cleaner cars."

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Re: Not THE answer

[Anonymous Coward]

The answer is that carbon pollution isn't actually pollution and you global warming scammers should stop shoving your climate change lives down everyone's throats. Human activities aren't harming the planet, no matter how much you lie and say that they are. People should see through Tesla and similar scams as attempts to inflate the prices of cars to make them unaffordable so only the rich people will have cars and the freedom to move about. Global warming is a scam to redistribute money to the rich people at the expense of everyone else. Undoubtedly I'll be censored to -1 for telling the truth and will be on the receiving end of ad hominem fallacies, because speaking the truth is so unpopular around people who have bought into the climate change lie hook, line, and sinker. When you get rid of all of the adjustments to the temperature record that cook the books to show warming, the Earth hasn't been warmer at all for the past century. Furthermore, rural stations away from the effects of growing urban heat islands don't show the warming, either. Global warming is a lie, and we should accept that carbon pollution isn't pollution at all, while solar and wind energy aren't clean at all.