Ecological disaster, caught in the story.
When it comes to London, the first thing to remember the ordinary people, is, of course, red telephone booths, big Ben and… the constant smog. The veil of soot and smoke, it seems, never fading away over the Albion, that’s the prerogative of big cities. However, few people know that I can conceal and deadly. So, in 1952, the Great Smog killed 12 thousand British.
The British could call a thick “pea soup”, which literally means “pea soup”. The great smog of 1952 went down in history because it took the maximum number of lives. Due to windless weather, which for 5 days were at the beginning of December, the coal smoke was almost unbearable. Children and the elderly suffered from dyspnoea, in most cases, strangulation was with a fatal outcome.
4 years later after the Great Smog, the British voted for the adoption of the clean air Act. A number of victims, surprisingly, did not cause panic among the English, but still prompted the government to introduce new environmental standards and to take seriously the issue of environmental pollution.
