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Originally Posted by SlackDad
But to use your argument from earlier, when I was asking for specific research, that as this would take a long time to undertake should not mean that we do not act now. Therefore would it not be sensible to ban (or seriously restrict) driving and flying until we have all the facts? As we appear to have done for smoking in public places.
For me the comparison was more about Government time and priority, ratehr than a spurious, we shouldn't do anything about smoking because vehicle emissions are very bad too.
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You're expecting prioritisation from the Government that dedicated weeks of Parliamentary time to stopping a few thousand horse riders from chasing foxes across the countryside? If there's one thing this Government does not do, it's prioritise effectively.
Even so, I reject the suggestion that just because we are talking about smoking now, it means that no-one has done anything about vehicle emissions. Without wishing to repeat myself, I said in a previous post above, the emissions problem is vastly greater and more complex. Nevertheless, a lot has been done. Nobody is saying we should do nothing about emissions until we understand the problem better. What I said earlier was that I will not accept the casual abuse of statistics that has been posted, comparing air pollution death with passive smoking death among bar staff, when we have no background or context within which we might understand if the comparison is even valid.