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Clearing the Air

The Beginning and the End of Air Pollution

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Clearing the Air

By: Tim Smedley
Narrated by: Tim Bentinck
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**SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY INSIGHT INVESTMENT SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2019**

'Read this book and join the effort to terminate air pollution.' Arnold Schwarzenegger

Air pollution has become the world's greatest environmental health risk, and science is only beginning to reveal its wide-ranging effects. Globally, 19,000 people die each day from air pollution, killing more than HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and car accidents combined.

What happened to the air we breathe?

Sustainability journalist Tim Smedley has travelled the world to try and find the answer, visiting cities at the forefront of the fight against air pollution, including Delhi, Beijing, London and Paris. With insights from the scientists and politicians leading the battle against it, and people whose lives have been affected by it,
Clearing the Air tells the full story of air pollution for the first time: what it is, which pollutants are harmful, where they come from and - most importantly - what we can do about them.

Air pollution is a problem that can be solved. The stories uncovered on this journey show us how.

Clearing the Air is essential reading for anyone who cares about the air they breathe. And this much becomes clear: in the fight against air pollution, we all have a part to play. The fightback has begun.

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Anyone who live in cities should read this book. Despite the grim subject this book is pragmatic and positive about the issue. The writing is engaging and the narrative keeps me attentive.

Very informative and interestingly written and narrated

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I really enjoyed this book, and found it to be eye opening in many ways. I enjoyed it so much in fact that after reading the physical version I got the audio book so I could listen through it again.

When it comes to audiobooks, the narrator is obviously very important. I think the narrator in this book is generally quite good. But there is one glaring problem. I wish, so much, that he wouldn't try to do the accents. Every time he is quoting someone, he tries to do the accent and an imitation of the persons voice. I find it so distracting and unnecessary. It honestly really detracted from my overall enjoyment of this audiobook.

Overall a great and really important book

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I simply don’t have the patience to wade through all the padding, even though the kernel of the book is very interesting and relevant. There is so much fluff around what really matters that one just needs too much time to fish it out.

Too much padding

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