The coal in China was killing around 300,000 people per year directly.
The deadly particles in London are now mostly invisible. If you live in London you'll die 20 years earlier. Great city, but I'm glad I'm not there any more. I used to hate having a nose full of black coming out of the northern line. London is rated as having the worst air pollution in Europe. They say about 50,000 people die per year in the UK because of bad air quality.
How polluted are the rest of the big cities in England, e.g. Manchester?
20 years seems way too much, I doubt people in a clean country get to die e.g. in the their 90s on average, while Londoners perish in their 70s.
I saw an EU study a few months ago claiming the most polluted monitored place in the 28 EU states is the town of Pernik in Bulgaria and Sofia is the most polluted capital ( it's in Bulgaria as well).
The deadly particles in London are now mostly invisible. If you live in London you'll die 20 years earlier. Great city, but I'm glad I'm not there any more. I used to hate having a nose full of black coming out of the northern line. London is rated as having the worst air pollution in Europe. They say about 50,000 people die per year in the UK because of bad air quality.
There's still some coal stations near cities in the UK though... even one near London. http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Existing_UK_coal-fired_...