Landmark U.K. coroner's ruling blames air pollution in 9-year-old girl's death

CBS News ^ | December 16, 2020 | BY HALEY OTT

[Oldeconomybuyer]

London - Air pollution "made a material contribution" to the death of nine-year-old London schoolgirl Ella Kissi-Debrah, a U.K. coroner ruled on Wednesday. The landmark ruling is the first time air pollution has been officially listed as a cause of death for anyone in the U.K.

Ella Kissi-Debrah died in 2013 after suffering severe asthma attacks for three years, her mother Rosamund Kissi-Debrah told CBS News last year.

When she died, the cause of her death was determined to be a severe asthma attack leading to respiratory failure. But a report compiled for Kissi-Debrah by Stephen Holgate, the former chair of the U.K. government's advisory committee on air pollution and a professor at Britain's University of Southampton, found that Ella's asthma attacks coincided with years of illegal air pollution levels on a busy street near her home.

On the basis of that report, Ella's previous cause of death was scrapped and a new coroner's inquest was opened.

"Ella died of asthma contributed to by exposure to excessive air pollution," Philip Barlow, the coroner for Ella's south London neighborhood, said on Wednesday. He said that during Ella's life particulate matter levels in her neighborhood were above WHO guidelines and nitrogen dioxide emissions exceeded legal limits.

"Toxic air pollution is a public health crisis, especially for our children," London Mayor Sadiq Khan said in a statement. "Ministers and the previous Mayor have acted too slowly in the past, but they must now learn the lessons from the Coroner's ruling and do much more to tackle the deadly scourge of air pollution in London and across the country," he continued.

"As we walk around our cities, there are still illegal levels of air pollution. This matter is far from over," Rosamond Kissi-Debrah told reporters after the ruling on Wednesday.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Rosamund Kissi-Debrah poses for a photograph ahead of the opening of a coroner's inquest in London, November 30, 2020,

[Bogey78O]

Should we put “sugar” as the cause of death for people with diabetes?

[Larry Lucido]

Wonder what the pollution was like from horses and smelters?

[facedown]

Just setting up a new group of “deep pockets” to fleece.

[EEGator]

Toxic air pollution is just part of living in a global city.

Right towelhead mayor?

[BipolarBob]

In Britain, emissions of black smoke were up to 50 times higher in the decades before the clean air acts than they are today. The great London smog of 1952, that prompted policymakers to act, killed 4,000 in the space of a week. But even that was not as dramatic as what went before.

[Organic Panic]

Does Benjamin Crump have a law license in the UK.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Fifty years ago air pollution was blamed for THE COMING ICE AGE!

1970 – Is Mankind Manufacturing a New Ice Age for Itself? (L.A. Times, January 15, 1970)
1970 – New Ice Age May Descend On Man (Sumter Daily Item, January 26, 1970)
1970 – Pollution Prospect A Chilling One (Owosso Argus-Press, January 26, 1970)
1970 – Pollution’s 2-way ‘Freeze’ On Society (Middlesboro Daily News, January 28, 1970)
1970 – Cold Facts About Pollution (The Southeast Missourian, January 29, 1970)
1970 – Pollution Could Cause Ice Age, Agency Reports (St. Petersburg Times, March 4, 1970)
1970 – Pollution Called Ice Age Threat (St. Petersburg Times, June 26, 1970)

Now pollution is blamed for Glo-Bull Warming.
https://www.nrcm.org/climate/global-warming-air-pollution/

[lgjhn23]

Of course, their socialized non-medicine would have nothing to do with...naaa, never. /s

[montag813]

This is a deliberate, designed ruling as part of the “Great Reset” to force “fossil fuels” into oblivion and enrich the Green Empire a billionfold. Carbon taxes next worldwide. In 10 years, urban brown and blackouts will be a regular daily occurance throughout the U.S. and Britain.