As a possible counterpoint, consider the following image: https://goo.gl/maps/R9aBPPb59yC2 https://goo.gl/maps/R9aBPPb59yC2 I used to drive past this block fa

As a possible counterpoint, consider the following image: https://goo.gl/maps/R9aBPPb59yC2 https://goo.gl/maps/R9aBPPb59yC2 I used to drive past this block fairly often and I'd shudder every time. I can't imagine living there. (It's worse in person than in the photo, really, the building is black). Poor people are overwhelmingly more likely to live in those sorts of conditions in London - more likely to live near traffic lights, close to busy polluted roads, on major arterial routes, and generally just in the pollution hotspots. By contrast, the wealthy are more likely to live in luxury apartments with proper AC, or leafy suburbs, or just on side streets that aren't front-line pollution (compare Euston/Marylebone Road to side streets). (I say more likely, because it's true on a statistical level, but it's also just obviously true. I can afford to not live there so I don't. It's obviously horrible, look at it, there's a massive road on one side and a railway line on the other. You'd better have some bloody good sound insulation if nothing else). So actually reducing emissions is in some ways an inverse tax on the poor - because poor people inhale more of the shit anyway.