Mother Earth: the local parents fighting air pollution
Day 2: Air pollution in the capital is reaching dizzying proportions (quite literally). Meet the mothers who have had enough
Educating the younger generation on air pollution. Pic: Sarah Glover-Smith
“Take a deep breath,” we tell our children as they spiral into a tantrum over a dropped ice cream. Rarely do we imagine that by doing so, we could be blindly subjecting them to damaging levels of air pollution. Yet that is the case for many residents of London boroughs with extremely high degrees of pollutants, who see no future free of smoggy school runs.