“The massive health costs of air pollution became obvious. Just breathing had become a ticking time bomb. **In 50 years – from 1840 to 1890 – death rates from bronchitis increased 12-fold, meaning 1 in 350 people died from it**. If that were still the case today, 26,000 Londoners would be dying from air pollution every year. ([Location 872](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0C3X6X695&location=872))” --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[London]], [[pollution]], [[climate-change]], [[fossil-fuels]], **Source** -- [[260103133118 - B - Not the End of the World]]