John's story

In the late 60s coal fires were banned in London. Now they’re thinking of banning wood burners because they’re giving out a certain type of pollution. But you’ve got to have gas fires and central heating, which means more power stations pumping out more pollution. So it’s a vicious circle.

Air pollution doesn’t affect me so much, at least visibly.

Maybe it does. I can’t see anything. I can’t see any factories with smoke billowing out and stuff like that, where if you go back to the 60s and 50s in London, the smog.

But I suppose health-wise, it’s probably affecting everybody, quietly, slowly, creeping up on us.