A Push for Diesel Leaves London Gasping Amid Record Pollution. Have we learned the lessons from the history of London fogs?

A Push for Diesel Leaves London Gasping Amid Record Pollution By KIMIKO de FREYTAS-TAMURA Britain's efforts to aid the environment have inadvertently led to a spike in an even more insidious form of air pollution than the deadly smog of 1952.

Pea soup, or a pea souper, also known as a black fog, killer fog or smog is a very thick and often yellowish, greenish, or blackish fog caused by air pollution that contains soot particulates and the poisonous gas sulfur dioxide.

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"In Victorian times it was our love for home fires that politicians were reluctant to upset; today it is our love for cars and other private means of transport. It took many decades to act on the knowledge that pea-soupers cost lives. How many decades will it take in our own time?"

Have we learned the lessons from the history of London fogs? | Christine L Corton

Writers and artists were inspired by the pea-soupers but smog cost thousands of lives

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