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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Was it like you thought this was a slam dunk?
And as Stephen remembers it, the government lawyers really put him to task.
After all the evidence was presented, the coroner had to decide.
Did pollution kill Ella?
The new coroner's report listed air pollution, along with asthma and acute respiratory failure, as Ella's official cause of death.
And since that happened, things have been getting better.
The council where Ella lived has made it way easier for people to find out what's going on with the pollution on any given day.
And doctors groups in the UK are updating guidelines and training manuals to make sure that doctors know that air pollution can trigger asthma.
And in London, they already had this program that basically charges a fee for some of the dirtiest cars and trucks, but it was only in central London.
So after this decision came down, they decided to expand it even further to neighbourhoods like where Ella lived.
And today, it now covers all of Greater London.
And it has worked to make the air cleaner.
The city reported that since that program started, nitrogen oxide levels have dropped almost 30% across all of London.
Stephen told us that this case, this little girl, was able to break through and stir up real change when tons of research, I mean mountains of papers on air pollution and asthma, didn't.
And for all of this work, in 2021 at the United Nations' big conference on climate change, the World Health Organization dedicated a special report to Ella.
Right there on the cover, it says.
But Rosamund knows that what they've done so far, it's not enough.
She quit her job as a teacher and became a full-time clean air advocate, giving speeches, starting a foundation and organising protests.
She wants our air to be cleaner.
She wants us to do the stuff we've been talking about since Captain Planet came out.
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