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> Consultant engineer Joseph Bazalgette, who was already working as a surveyor for the Metropolitan Commission of Sewers, was employed to mastermind a plan for
by disadvantage 3y ago
> Consultant engineer Joseph Bazalgette, who was already working as a surveyor for the Metropolitan Commission of Sewers, was employed to mastermind a plan for sewers, pumping stations and the redevelopment of the embankments of London. The results of his remarkable efforts are still maintaining London’s health today. The Great Stink may not have the historic cachet of the Great Fire or the Plague of London, but its influence was ultimately to the good of the city.
Now the UK still has to deal with smog. Cars might be all electric in my lifetime, but smog is still a persistent problem and causes respiratory problems.
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- boringg 3y agoHow would the cars (And heavy duty vehicles) being all electric/hydrogen not solve the smog problem?
- dkdbejwi383 3y agoElectric cars only get rid of tailpipe emissions. Cars still leave other contaminants via their tyres, for instance
- mikestew 3y agoWhat do those “other contaminants” that aren’t tailpipe emissions have to do with smog?
- ggm 3y agoAt least one book I have read about the rise of plastics said that during the worst years of rubber shortages in WW2 there were serious proposals to scrape roads and recover tire materials in the USA. I believe the discovery of stable artificial rubber materials, capable of being produced in volume in time for the D Day landings helped with the supply chain crisis as the armed forces moved forward (the rate of supply became a major issue and logistics demands were high)
- tcmart14 3y agoI've heard that break dust is also really carcinogenic.
- boringg 3y agoWhile that is true it that has little to do with smog. Smog is air contaminants.
- wigster 3y agoa descendent of Bazalgette invented the Big Brother reality TV show. I always think they reversed the process established by their ancestor and started pumping shit back into our homes.
- throwup238 3y agoThe laws of the conservation of shit are immutable and inescapable. You can displace shit in spacetime but eventually it comes back.