"Air pollution kills millions of people every year, but it doesn’t have to be this way. **We know how to get levels of air pollution very low**. I am breathing the UK’s cleanest air for centuries, if not millennia. **The solution is simple: stop burning stuff**. Make sure that people have access to electricity for cooking and heating, stop burning crops and fossil fuels, regulate industrial plants, and focus on clean public transport networks. ([Location 4589](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0C3X6X695&location=4589))" --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[emissions]], [[pollution]], [[climate-change]], [[public-policy]], **Source** -- [[260103133118 - B - Not the End of the World]]