Wendy Zuckerman
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3,659 appearances
16 recordings
3 series
first heard May 2020
last heard 2 Jul
Wendy Zuckerman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But the truth is that almost nowhere in the world actually meets those standards every day.
And actually, this big report just came out last month from the American Lung Association.
And it says that nearly 50% of U.S.
kids now live in a place with unhealthy levels of air pollution.
So even though it's really rare to get sick like Ella did from pollution, to Stephen, he sees what happened to her as an extreme example of what's happening to all of us.
And so Rosamund hatched a plan.
She wanted to get air pollution listed on Ella's death certificate.
And if she could do that, it would be a world first.
Rosamund wanted the real reason that Ella died to be official.
But she also thought that perhaps Ella could put a face to all these awful statistics about what pollution is doing to us.
Her lawyer also thought that it would open the door to more lawsuits for other people to force governments around the world to clean our air.
But getting air pollution on a death certificate, it was going to be tricky.
Rosamund had to go to a court to convince a coroner that there was a direct link between pollution and Ella's death.
And even though we have statistics showing that pollution contributes to millions of deaths each year, it's actually really hard to point to a person and say air pollution killed them.
But with Ella, the data was so damning.
She was living under illegal levels of pollution.
And so Rosamund thought she could do this.
In late 2020, almost eight years after Ella died, the second inquest into her death began.
Stephen was an expert witness.
Did you think you'd win?
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