City Trees: London Has New Artificial Trees That Eat Pollution

It would be extremely hard not to agree with any effort that reduces pollution. However, the article appears to be a fluff/puff piece by lulling it's intended audience into a false sense of security and virtue signalling by putting air pollution on par with veganism. No amount of fake trees are going to make a difference, unless there is at least a discussion about diesel vehicles being one of the root causes. To tackle this problem requires concerted efforts, not least by holding the government to account on the, now failed, Clean Air Bill.

Clean Air Bill: https://services.parliament.uk/bills/2017-19/cleanair.html

FT Big Read: 'Air pollution: why London struggles to breathe'

https://www.ft.com/content/9c2b9d92-a45b-11e8-8ecf-a7ae1beff...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/feb/05/the-trut...

Edit: The 'new' Clean Air (Human Rights) Bill was also stalled due to the parliament being prorogued.

https://services.parliament.uk/bills/2017-19/cleanairhumanri...

I like this city trees idea a lot.

Probably less practical - at least for the diamond-creating part, more of an art project - is the Smog Free Project by Daan Roosegaarde. It collects smog particles from the air, which are then to be turned to diamonds and sold to the public to raise awareness.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/06/why-turning-smog-into...