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As an asthmatic person, I hope this too. Berlin is quite bad on some streets, especially due to people's love for diesel cars. This also includes trucks and di
by pimeys 7y ago
As an asthmatic person, I hope this too. Berlin is quite bad on some streets, especially due to people's love for diesel cars.
This also includes trucks and diesel buses.
- choeger 7y agoI don't want to trash your hopes, but the particles are pretty much independent from traffic nowadays (see how Stuttgart is doing these days). The drought around Berlin will probably kick way more fine particles into the city than all Diesel cars together. The only thing that could help would be more trees and less dense cities.
- thesz 7y agoMore trees [1], less particle pollution, you say? [1] https://www.businessinsider.co.za/georgia-helicopter-causes-pollen-storm-video-2019-3 https://www.businessinsider.co.za/georgia-helicopter-causes-...
- amelius 7y agoAnd less helicopters.
- choeger 7y agoWell, conifers, obviously ;)
- vladvasiliu 7y agoI think that the trouble with pollen (from the trees) is mostly allergies. However, it seems to me that allergies are much more frequent nowadays than they were in the past, and mostly concentrated in the cities. There's a study [1] linking allergies and asthma with pollution. > Strong epidemiological evidence supports a relationship between air pollution and the exacerbation of asthma and other respiratory diseases. Recent studies have suggested that air pollutants play a role in the development of asthma and allergies. So maybe more trees IS the solution, even though it would seem they're the problem? [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3192198/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3192198/