Winston Churchill's Resistances on the First Anti-Smog Law
The influences of coal and related industries who didn't want a law that undermined their interests
We know from history that one reason, among many,?England's greatness?straddling in the 19th and 20th centuries it was precisely?their energy independence, based on coal, that allowed industry to work, houses to heat up and be able to cook and naval transport to function.
The downside of all this progress was the?pollution that pervaded the cities, including London, creating thick blankets of mists composed from harmful pollutants deriving from the combustion of coal.
It was not understood, in that historical period,?the correlation between emissions into the atmosphere?caused by domestic and industrial coal, and?the lethality of the polluted fog?which was breathed by men and animals, which led to respiratory pathologies often classified as influenza...Read On..