If the government can't protect schools from pollution, we'll have to do it ourselves - with help from Mother NatureWhen was it, maybe two weeks ago? I was just about clinging on to sanity's rigging amid the daily tempest of trauma that has become my family's morning routine. My 11-year-old was fuming loudly because I hadn't bought her any croissants (what have we become?!), the dog was expressing his fear-anxiety about the postman, my husband was losing his shit at the toast he had just burned, my 10-year-old was punting a rugby ball through the kitchen air (the tinny hi-hats of the latest indistinguishable mumble-rap track playing on his portable speakers) and John Humphrys had the hump about something.On this occasion, it was the air quality in inner-city classrooms, which, to be fair, is a legitimate thing to grump on about, even if it was with that tone of pantomime incredulity he employs. (NB: what follows is a very vague estimation of a memory that is most likely wrong in the first place.) "Surely there's something we can do to improve the air our children are breathing," harrumphs Humph. "Plants?" I suggest to the radio. "Well, yes, there are things we can do," says the air-quality expert. "Plants," I say again (I'm certain she's going to say "plants"). "We can fit classrooms with air purifiers that mechanically remove more than 99.97% of air contaminants." And plants, surely? "Very interesting," says Humph, content no further investigation is required. And that's that. Continue reading...
Safer air for the kids? Grow more houseplants
20. května 2019 8:30
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Celý článek: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/20/safer-air-for-the-kids-grow-more-houseplants
Zdroj: The Guardian