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Old 07-12-2007, 09:32 AM
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Yes, I remember it () - it wasn't just London but most of NW Europe. If you look in the papers of the time you'll see people saying we can't do anything about it, pollution is an unavoidable by-product of industrialisation and urbanisation .... sounds familiar? But, of course, it was possible to stop it quite easily - the knowledge and the technology was there so it just needed political will ...
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