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Exposure to pollution caused by cars and other vehicles is strongly correlated with asthma.[0] I'm glad you mention CO2, which does cause global warming, we mig
by grey-area 6y ago
Exposure to pollution caused by cars and other vehicles is strongly correlated with asthma.[0] I'm glad you mention CO2, which does cause global warming, we might want to try to fix that too before it is too late?
Carbon Fibre is expensive and irrelevant, and fires from it even more so, unless you want to minimise the impact of oil based cars on health in cities. Most popular EVs don't use it.
Traffic is a major source of particulates (20-30%) [1] so reducing it would help a lot, in particular diesel cars and trucks, though yes some things like rubber from tyres would only be helped by traffic reduction, simply switching to EVs would help a lot.
Moving to walking, bikes and public transport for most journeys in cities is the sustainable answer I suspect we'll end up at, and from that future our reliance on individual polluting cars will seem insane. It would require a rethink of some city planning of course, but many people happily live without cars in Europe at the moment.
0. https://airqualitynews.com/2020/02/07/air-pollution-responsible-for-half-of-childhood-asthma-cases-in-barcelona/ https://airqualitynews.com/2020/02/07/air-pollution-responsi...
1. https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/news/what-are-main-sources-urban-air-pollution https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/news/what-are-main-sources-urban...