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Ep. 44 - As Attenborough Warns Decision Makers, Could This Tech Help?
- Autor: Vários
- Narrador: Vários
- Editor: Podcast
- Duración: 0:19:51
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Sinopsis
This is no time for making plans for 2050 - people are dying - today! It was while studying at Cambridge university that today’s guest Nat Rich realised quite what a state the world is in – and that if people knew some of the stuff she was finding out, they’d be horrified. The problem of carbon emission, and the high NOx levels which kill people, is global, and especially bad in London where it’s easy just to blame the cabs, or the buses, or the trains. We constantly break the EU’s limit for safe pollution levels. And it can only get worse. And government is tackling the issue by charging vehicles for their emissions – rather than trying to solve the problem at source! But the issue goes much further than that. We reply on all sorts of machines to keep the world running, and it’s not just cars or plans or lorries, but also the generators that run our hospitals. It was a few years back that while working within the water industry, Nat had come across a magnetic device that claimed to reduce carbon emissions wh