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\"00005_opt\"<\/a>Hearing an article on the news on plastics the other day got me thinking about I thought were the three pressing environmental problems.\u00a0 I came up with plastic pollution,\u00a0 Climate change (obviously) and particulate pollution.\u00a0 I’m going to have a look at each one in separate blog posts first looking at particulate pollution.\u00a0 But considering each one is there a political will to deal with and societal will, which there has to be in every case since significant lifestyle changes are inevitable?<\/p>\n

I think on plastics there is.\u00a0 There are an increasing number of techno fixes and there is massive public backing for solution to what is partly a litter problem caused by a small minority.\u00a0 “Blue planet” really did have an effect.\u00a0 I think in 5 years there will be huge progress on sustainable alternatives.\u00a0 The huge problem will be dealing with what’s out already there.<\/p>\n

On climate change we are half way there.\u00a0 There is a good deal of political and societal will but not enough.\u00a0 Some people think this summer’s northern hemisphere’s heat wave is a tipping point.\u00a0 I hope they are right, but such moments have been predicted before.<\/p>\n

On the last of our three pressing environmental problems particulate pollution I think we have a long way to go.\u00a0 For the most part we are talking about traffic pollution although in India and China there are other causes such as coal and wood burning combined with other natural sources.\u00a0\u00a0 Governments reaching are for the electric car as a solution.\u00a0 This is only a partial one.\u00a0 We will start looking at this most pressing of problems first with an proposed scheme in my city of residence.<\/p>\n

Neil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hearing an article on the news on plastics the other day got me thinking about I thought were the three pressing environmental problems.\u00a0 I came up with plastic pollution,\u00a0 Climate change (obviously) and particulate pollution.\u00a0 I’m going to have a … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,223,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-pollution","category-cars","category-climate-change","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nThree pressing environmental problems - The oil lamp - shining God's light on peak oil<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=8180\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=8180\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=8180\",\"name\":\"Three pressing environmental problems - 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