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a neighborhood street festival in the german city of cologne for a day cause a band pedestrians and bicyclists a free to use the streets normally traffic clogs these roads and clues the air levels of fine particulate matter and nitrogen oxides are high in downtown cologne pediatrician christiane during is trying to raise awareness of the problem. imo your kids have a cigarette. this cigarette made of chewing gum symbolizes the invisible danger of particulate matter and not region oxides it represents the 2 cigarettes worth of toxins during says cologne residents inhaled every day. he sees a lot of young patients with respiratory problems in his practice. was akin to ask dr seuss for no fish where there are pediatric practices located near. by in an

area with heavy traffic and we've observed an increase in the problems children have in the months when we get temperature inversions they start and then the polluted air is tracked below and there's an increase in respiratory irritants from traffic concert particles from coal fired power plants children get diseases that are more severe and they need longer to recover we have to prescribe more medications. it's generally accepted that fine particular matter and nitrogen oxides pollute the air we breathe and can destroy our health the question is who is responsible. fine particulates a small fragments of solid materials only could droplets suspended in the air that may contain contaminants such as salt will lead particulate matter is divided into

3 categories. the largest of these particles are attempt of the width of a human hair this is the catch a great peak in 10 particular matter less than 10 microns in diameter and these relatively course particles tend to stay in the respiratory tract refined matter that has particles less than $2.00 microns in diameter make up the class pm $2.00 and is small enough to penetrate the lungs ultra fine particles are less than 0 point one micron in diameter and they can enter the bloodstream. i think occurring and if the particles are small enough to get into the bloodstream that's a huge problem in small children whose immune defenses are still weak there are uses to mr in training so to speak preparing for all the things that it will face later in life that's why kids generally have weak immune defenses in addition and i'll show you here the long of a 12 month old child is still very very small and that's

a big problem for pediatricians in the us and. their pollution affects the most vulnerable the sick the elderly and children like. this 6 year old has to use a nebulizer to thin the mucus in his lungs when the air quality in cologne tyria rights during the winter months you'll get a calm that invariably develops into bronchitis or even pneumonia in an effort to break the cycle doctors prescribe various medications and inhalations chorister problems the main problem is the strong medications and i try to avoid them by treating him 1st with homeopathy and herbals and then cough syrup but we usually end up resorting to a cord as i spray on the part f. ing so who's as soon as he starts coughing i tense up because i always feel that he develops this cough no matter what i do. or no what it means is that families have

kids can't live in cities especially if they're predisposed to these kinds of conditions. chemical outside yes vice because the area so bad that ultimately you can't live their. son's chronic condition forced into and mercker fan version to move out to the suburbs but you'll scoff hasn't improved if seems there's no escaping colognes polluted am. trying to cook we've even considered moving to the coast. you know but i'm a teacher so i can't just get up and leave it's always a question of where you can find a job but theoretically everybody should move away from cologne. traffic is one of the causes of air pollution in cities 63 percent of traffic

related party. matter is generated vibrate anti aware only 37 percent stems from engine source engines are primarily responsible for the not triggered signs in city air less so for particulate matter. traffic generates high levels of dangerous ultra fine particles toxins and here to their surfaces and can enter the bloodstream. in downtown cologne pediatrician christian during is vacuuming dirt off the street deposits of fine particular matter consisting of sort and rubber as well as lead barium aluminum and mercury street cleaning has long been used as a method of reducing traffic related air pollution but what christian during his doing here is merely symbolic. in the thought of not a bad year. as is our voting in this road has made a difference the substances we vacuumed out these particles are contaminated the

water so much that when we pour it in here we see that it's completely cloudy. bush the intruders. how damaging is particular matter to our internal organs next to the cemetery is the institute of forensic medicine of colognes university hospital. in the basement pathology lab is the work place of forensic medicine specialist marcus brauchli out. here he investigates cases in which the course type or time of death is unclear. what shield can read the organs of the deceased like a book and this lung is no exception. it sounds in this this is the long of a man aged around 50 who lived here in the city at the autopsy determined that he

died of natural causes. what we see very clearly by looking at is long that he held significant quantities of particulates matter and god without. the deceased was not a smoker the pathologist can tell that from the tissue still the left lung is covered in black dots. on come tile and if you can see polluted air as a residue in the lungs the shiny covering here is the pohlmann area that surrounds each lung in directly beneath the pleura and we see this pattern of black dots these are carbon particles particles and it's the dirt this individual inhaled and that was deposited in his lungs. we breathe about 20000 times every day passing some 10000 liters of air through our lungs particles smaller than 10 micro meters in diameter or p.m.t.

into the nasal cavity and trachea our natural defenses allows us to cough or sneeze small amounts out of our bodies. but those defenses are overtaxed by large quantities of particles the respiratory tract swells up even smaller particles pm to $4.00 and $5.00 going into the poll rate alfio light and trigger brumfiel infections the result. pneumonia or bronchitis. equal to chronic inflammation as those courses can create liberation of connective tissue fibrosis and along that produces the lungs that elasticity in the patient experiences shortness of breath a hunger for air that is not curable what is tired of our. culture of fine particles into the bloodstream triggering chronic inflammation of blood vessels that leads to clogged arteries that can lead to a heart attack or stroke statistics for europe show that pollution can shave up to

2 years offer. lifespan. the black life shortening deposits of visible under the microscope the accumulation of carbon particles in the loans is known as answer cosas. and what if you look at this and consider that our own lungs probably look their same it's clear that we need to go out and breathe fresh air from time to time when most people living in big cities all have lungs in which we find to a greater or lesser extent deposits of carbon particles mean it would have been a go playing world but i have to say that when i started 30 years ago we saw far more pronounced cases of anthrax hoaxes than we do today to play on the whole it's declined but we still see it in anyone who lives in a big city looking obviously in this but you didn't and it was. their pollution generated by the particulate matter drop significantly in germany after $990.00 that includes nitrogen oxides which was thrust into the spotlight by german come

make a v.w. small recent emissions scandal but since 2009 there's been little improvement in equality. the situation is far more grave in delhi the world's most polluted capital the air in the indian city is 10 times more contaminated than in cologne a trip to delhi is like a trip into germany's past this is how polluted the western european country was 4 decades ago. people try to protect themselves with face masks. we meet up with the shore club she works for the center of science and environment and is an environmental advisor to the government she takes measurements to show us just how bad the air is. like. cut. cut yeah like the 2.

but i don't have much choice. but. to be upbeat and bored at home but if you don't actually deal with. the daily threshold value for particles in germany is 50 micrograms per cubic meter of. the measurements show delhi exceeds that by a factor of 30 that were taken in a heavily polluted area still. have issues with it. so i didn't want to lie to evolution as fully as he should he would have. but when it joins us tonight you start looking for definition it does change my mind and now i want to look for the evolution in the evolution if you have ever so that if not you come

up with the definition of the future definition of missing baby. whatever you think . the indian government has responded by closing the coal fired power plants and ordering taxis that run on gasoline or diesel to switch to compressed natural gas but many still fill up with the bad fuel and traffic isn't even the main source of delhi small it's the poor households in this city of 28000000 that use coal heated all ends to press their laundry and open fires to cook their meals. households like bano davies every day she makes traditional flat bread often she uses the lack of wood to fire her stove such domestic cooking fire as one of the biggest sources of pollution here. poor residents a poisoning the city's a and themselves. and i have trouble breathing. yeah he

is. he or my eyes search. so that i often get headaches. sometimes i can hardly breathe and have to go to the hospital is a good. deed from space air pollution it is plain to see the haze hoppers not only above the city but stretches in a broad band across india pollution levels are highest between november and monch then hospital waiting rooms fill up with coughing patients and pollution kills an estimated 1800000 indians every year doctors at b.l.k. hospital center for a chest and respiratory diseases used a lung function test to check for early warning signs. not only be. known be there and be bitten say below. some more some more

some more some more and dignity and say that's very good x. and. we see that you know but doctors can only treat the patient symptoms and try to relieve their pain in the recent deal as the number is increasing day by day i'm seeing more and more young children the symptoms suggestive of i'm seeing more and more people whose stupid you would ask my gets boysenberry frequent so the number does almost double i can not tell my patients to stop breathing because it's essential to breathe so when i see them again and again in my will be telling that the are the only a bit vague though but be an art absolutely all right it's really frustrating then i don't have to take a philosophy and tell everybody to plant a tree but probably you know we need more than just planting a tree. the bale family lives in greater. an affluent district in the capital.

they've installed special technology in their home to help improve a quality. that's my kids back home. and say hi yeah it's me that. the ngo i'm there knowing my dad ok so for them to eventually if i have a pair. that's for phillips. there but if i go there and the big brown unit of forbes so this through say or one from either group. there that one revere recently bought. you know a. manager. here so this is a very very serious story that from the company. marine i'll buy a lot is an architect. he spent almost

a 1000 euros on the air purifiers when they go outside in air pollution is high the children have to wear face masks. and. last year there was a guy and my child and him step out and they were just. stepping out for the next 3 for school or anything so therefore there must. be. there was a backpack. in the winter myra and mira spent 3 to 4 months almost exclusively indoors $22.00 of the world's most polluted cities are in india and the situation isn't improving clean air is a precious commodity that only the wealthy can afford to improve air quality for everyone india would need to lift millions out of poverty and to read akkad open fire cooking. germany could serve as an example

its biggest polluters industry and coal fired power plants were ordered to install filter systems domestic coal ovens were gradually replaced by gas heating and electric stoves. the german environment agency operates one of 6 measuring stations in noid globe so in eastern brandenburg state it also analyzes dacha from . the state finance stations marion vic mumfie big heads the agencies equality department she advises the government on strategies to tackle fine particulate matter and nitrogen oxides the filter that is currently collecting particulate matter isn't here at midnight it's pivoted over here and falls into this refrigerated chamber where the use filters are stored as good as the stuff although we can see there's already a residue on it. and then the bigger they are running back in the 1970 s. you could literally taste and see the smog at least in the industrial very area and

big cities with a given that the fine particulate matter we measure here is a health hazard that you can't see and so it's hard to convince people that it's a serious risk to their health. agency uses high precision instruments to conduct its measurements when coal fired power plants are ramped up in neighboring poland or winds carries a higher and dust clouds to germany the values measured here rise in the e.u. the threshold values for the inhalable particles measuring $2.00 microns or less is $25.00 micrograms per cubic meter of air averaged over 3 years. to how one small vessel and we took the data for pm 2.5 in germany and compared it with the authorized threshold value that they're going to show us on this as you see on the map everything is green which means we have not exceeded any threshold value and are in compliance with the limit so it looks like there is no health risks but the world health organization has recommended limit is much lower when we

compared our data to their threshold value of the map or suddenly read in other words there is a health hazard so if we want to protect public health we should use the w h o's recommendations as our yardstick. threshold values are always the result of negotiations politicians not doctors all scientists decide whether the air we breathe is clean and. and currently politicians are focused on road traffic as the main source of pollution bought marion victim and phoebe exists elsewhere. would fuel heating systems are significant factor in air pollution especially out in barrel areas and fun if you drive through village you'll see stacks of wood everywhere people use them to light a cozy evening fire but most don't have an exhaust filter and everything that's burned inside goes straight up through the chimney and out into the air and that's what we prefer. emissions of pm $2.00 particularly matter from wood stoves

has risen in germany in recent years while the share from automobile engines has dropped since 2008 would fuel started to have a mission more particulate matter than engines would combustion now generates ball most as much atmospheric pollution as traffic comprising engine exhaust as well as tires and brakes where. the reason more and more people like the schimmel family are eating with wood because it's considered a carbon neutral fuel but particulate matter from wood burning stoves is as much a health hazard as diesel sort chimney sweeps regularly encounter users who don't know the rules of making a fire it's a big problem so that's my stock no i would under starter. started a wave packed it i don't know where you put the candling it would be totally overloaded . with hollywood. stoves that are overloaded all multis with high

royster content emit high levels of pollutants like nitrogen and sulfur outsides hydrochloric acid and particulate matter. chimneysweep mario vides small dogs and wood will soaked in works to light the fire people it's the thin a log on top this is the low emission top down method. through there so that's the way to do it a perfectly stacked starve use. of the manufacturer has testbench conditions to achieve certain values with optimized words and set up conditions for these vary from site to site. so in order to make it at all possible that the emissions correspond relatively closely to the manufacturer's values we generally sweep's need to show our customers how to use their stars because otherwise it's pointless. even if owners like their fires by

the book it's virtually impossible to match manufacturers and mission values in daily use woodstoves a much more pollution inclined despite the best efforts of chimney slaves. you are better i work below at the emission source or the stove the cleaner the exhaust gases that i generate will be and the more i'm protecting the environment and my neighborhood of foreign made mine in missouri. according to the german environment agency woodstoves account the 20 percent of the particulate matter emitted in the pm $2.00 size range in germany that figure is rising. power plants are still the biggest emitters with 26 percent 2 thirds of these emissions stem from coal fired power plants traffic takes 3rd place with 19 percent of the share contributed by agriculture is just 5 percent.

but the german environment agency only measures direct emissions. felt is a professor of atmospheric physics at them. max planck institute for chemistry his findings are quite different lady fell says there's another culprit responsible for polluted air livestock. the animals bear a share of responsibility for the problem this from operate sustainably but whenever you buy cheap meat from a conventional factory farm you're making a decisive contribution to the creation of atmospheric particulates matter. how was that possible layfield explains the following distinction primary particulate matter is emitted directly into the atmosphere when matter created for example by tire wear or stove or engine combustion decomposes into smaller particles secondary

particulate matter is formed by chemical processes in the air. ammonia for example which is scapes from farm and combines with other substances to form particulate molecules some of these substances carcinogenic and small enough to enter the gas exchange regions of the lung the out and the bloodstream. as if. i believe the german environment agency is a figure of 5 percent is to lug 5 or 70 percent of fine particulate matter is formed in the atmosphere it isn't released in some way as dust is formed chemically . making a politician but livestock manure is spread as fertilizer in the fields the ammonia it contains escapes into the atmosphere yuck monier also escapes from the stables and particulate matter is formed when ammonia combines with nitrogen oxides from road traffic to be. alarming conclusion some 40 percent of all the

fine particulate matter in germany is generated by agriculture and above all by factory farming. ammonia gas from farm in your blankets the ground and reacts among other things with nitrogen oxides from traffic to form ammonium nitrate in the atmosphere it may become a snow genic high ammonia levels are produced in north west in germany a center of industrial animal farming west winds carry the gas across the country meat production is a key industry in germany could that be why there's so little public debate about agriculture is role in generating particulate matter. madeon victim and feel big agrees with bell's assessment. if i stop if we want to tackle the problem of particulates matter we need to see fewer wood burning stoves less

livestock farming or cutting emissions from livestock farming less ammonia. that would reduce so-called secondary particulates matter and would really bring relief to a large part of the population and we could meet the stricter threshold values. that would significantly reduce particulate matter pollution across germany and not just in large cities. is going to no doubt this is not just about guaranteeing every person's right to clean air it's also about making clean air economically viable people call in sick to work they have chronic diseases none of that is factored into the equation instead short term economic interests are given precedence without a real evaluation of the health liabilities and their related costs so you have. the problem of ambient particulate matter michoud by wood stoves and i agree culture is compounded in cities by traffic. particulate matter and nitrogen oxides

accumulated hotspots on heavily trafficked roads in so-called street canyons or at railway stations and this is especially true in the winter months. when temperature inversion traps polluted any of the ground. barbara hoffman is an environmental epidemiologist whose evaluated studies on air pollution involving tens of thousands of participants. their findings are surprising. their out of hours it's not really tricky of course it's the drivers who are sitting in a cabin that are exposed to the highest levels foghorn is a solid and when riding a bicycle even if you can only distance yourself from heavy traffic by a few meters or take a road parallel to the main road the exposure is already significantly lower beutler going up. 65 cities in germany regularly exceed limits cannot treat an upside emissions produced by diesel vehicles the values are particularly

high in munich stuttgart and cologne. environment commission a common avella took germany and 5 other countries to court. some of the pm complains to be. in 2000. and 5 the place for it to be in 2010 so i think we've waited a long time and we cannot possibly wait any longer we cannot have plans which are telling us that compliance might be some time even after 2021 after 2025 times so these were the main reasons. the most effective way to rapidly cut nitrogen oxide pollution is to ban diesel cars from roads with the government dragging its feet the organization environmental action germany began suing the 65 affected cities to force them to stay within pollution

limits the 1st verdict was handed down in in early june 2800 of them became the 1st german city force to take action by an administrative court. just one lot over the state of north rhine-westphalia who's now take all necessary measures to ensure that a complies with the limits of nitrogen dioxide by september 1st 2019 of the skittish however the court has made it clear that it considers a bone and diesel driving to be the only suitable measure to ensure compliance with this limit. so there's now a 98 percent likelihood that a ban on driving diesel cars will be imposed. 3 weeks later in late june 28th in an administrative court in stuttgart also ruled in favor of driving bans. the state government complied banning diesel cars from all roads in stuttgart from january the 1st 2019 and not just on selected roads like in hamburg or as planned

in berlin. the ban applies to cars made to euro 4 standard and alter. said we wouldn't be discussing driving bans. today have cars were as clean as they're supposed to be if manufacturers had used cheating software but installed suitable hardware would be complying with air quality standards for both nitrogen oxides and particular matter. if all the affected cities introduced driving bans at least $1300000.00 diesel drivers would be impacted. is an advisor to federal ministries he doesn't see driving bands as a necessity. for him out of our mind i've always appealed for patience the values will continue to improve and reach targets across the board even in schuchardt and munich through france our common our initial cut our communication. argues that diesel technology is indispensable if all vehicles were replaced by vehicles with

better exhaust technology it would be more environmentally friendly than scrapping older vehicles just because of their high emissions on it or whom when the thought of them gearing up. this folks back in percentage has a diesel engine that's banned instruct us that we can do an excellent into the diesel engine is a feat of engineering and no nation masters this technology better than we do in germany german engineers did an incredible job here even if there are some things that weren't criticism in total it's an excellent engineering achievement of the engineers to. call heads the reciprocating engines institute at the karlsruhe institute of technology his team studies engine emissions and alternative fuels cock believes the diesel engine has been demonized in the pollution debate he doesn't condone manufacturers use of fraudulent software to cheat emissions tests

but he blames policy makers for setting bro traffic pollution limits at a time when they were technologically unattainable. but i was part of that this whole business for the last i think sober bout it. i'm sure other developers faced an impossible task either they had high levels of particulate matter and the low levels of nitrogen oxides or high levels of nitrogen oxides and low levels of particulate matter back then you couldn't achieve low levels of both at the same time that only became possible with exhaust aftertreatment technology but it was a generally known fact that in reality vehicles were emitting far more than the utopian limit of $180.00 milligrams per kilometer. simle tiny asli cutting particulate matter and nitrogen oxides wasn't technically feasible 10 years ago in diesel engines combustion occurs at a particularly high temperature generating

a lot of nitrogen oxides in fact the particulate filter in diesel cars relies on not trigger and dioxide to prevent clogging the gas converts the carbon sort into not trick oxide and c o 2 these exhaust gases would not filtered. detention engineers have been in this grazer where they have to decide which factors to prioritize in their t.t. for because they could only reduce an engine's nitrogen oxide emissions at the cost of all other operational parameters engineers refrain from optimizing nitrogen oxide out question addition close up to me other. mechanical engineers have only been able to comply with threshold regulations since the development of selective catalytic reduction technology it uses your rear to also remove nitrogen oxides today thomas called seize the diesel engine on the home stretch it is not the case lantern will be needed for years to come have patience the emissions problem is

resolved we mustn't demonize diesel. but it will take years to upgrade all the diesel vehicles on germany's roads with the new technology. affected cities. need to act and they need traffic managers because vehicles generate less pollution when they're moving than when they're stopped in traffic jams. is looking to technology for help it's installed filters around measuring station at make it all the location that clocks up the worst air pollution in germany johannes stoner and patrick little are in charge of the pilot project. new conference with installed filters on a 350 meter stretch along the road and neck and towards the last one is back there at the car dealership put off on a sign by. all the holes in all 17 columns of stock filter

caps are set up to reduce the load of particulate pollution so really took more than 40 measures a listed inch took guts clean air and action plan by the screws on father borders in the debate on introducing driving bans we had politicians and industry representatives saying why didn't you do this why don't you do that to avert a driving ban. so we heard about particle filters being installed in other cities and vehicles equipped with filters and even if we're not entirely convinced about the effectiveness of such measures we say if it's not nonsense let's give it a go or beyond that there's always so we need to show we're using the means at our disposal to clean the air we're open to suggestions but we won't fall for useless hocus pocus then explain. this specialist hope they can persuade stuttgart authorities to install particle filter systems like this one on top of cars in city traffic. to demonstrate in your fine shall we filter particulate matter in the

books. on the fans turn in the air you can feel it here is drawn through the filter i'll show you something else here we have installed the filter solution for the break. it filters particulate matter directly at the source. these brake filters could be installed in any vehicle cars trucks but also buses for example it's generated a lot of interesting things going on start. the engine is a seeking to install their system on small trucks trains and busses this car also measures particulate matter in the environment during our entire test drive in stuttgart the values exceeded the legal limit. even in neighborhoods at higher elevations. you fit in with the rooftop filter removes about 80 percent of particulate matter find jobs are lost in the break filter on the front

axle also was about 80 percent of particulate matter generated by brake wear. but filters can only clean the air that passes through them they can only fight the symptoms not the causes of pollution and they don't remove nitrogen oxides at all for now reducing the number of diesel vehicles appears to be the only solution. then go in next and if in the space of a year we discover our attachments are measurements that we're still a long way from meeting legal threshold values then well prepared to introduce driving restrictions for euro 5 vehicles in 2020. recent court rulings have put the government under pressure it's asked carmakers to offer trade in incentives to customers who scrap older diesels the measures being criticized as a stimulus plan for the auto industry rather than a solution to pollution from the boys from here german car makers are offering attractive premiums b.m.w. for example $6000.00 euros v.w. the v.w.

group $48000.00 marines so $5000.00 euros an average of dollars more on the german government also wants to introduce compulsory hardware fixes fumbled a diesel cars as a buy and we're still talking to manufacturers about. hardware retrofitting. one manufacturer said it will pay 80 percent of the conversion process so we're talking about the remaining 20 percent off the rest in sponsor sent. the incentives only apply in 14 of germany's 65 polluted cities but it's unclear whether they will be implemented to date no manufacturer has agreed to pay retrofit costs so what can be done until the egg gets cleaner barbara hoffman at university hospital dusseldorf says hiding in your apartment is not a solution good policy activity physical activity whether it's running or cycling

or whatever and it's one of the most important protective measures we know when your carry protects against a variety of diseases. and the positive effects far outweigh the damage caused by inhaling air pollutants in front of touched off a fat other of you in any case it is definitely advisable to ride a bike instead of sitting in a car or about a 5 minute and longer hopes traffic then you should avoid riding along main roads by taking side roads where pollution levels are lower and. so much research will last them and of course everyone can try to avoid exposure at peak traffic hours. but what you can't avoid is general exposure there we have no control over what we have helped by. air pollution is rather like the radioactivity it's invisible and it takes decades before its effects show up.

flights to measure air pollution have given physicist your slave felt a different perspective. he and his colleagues study air samples taken at high altitudes the air pollution which we don't even notice on the ground is visible from the. aircraft window. where you can see how bad the visibility is that's air pollution these are not clouds. and the haze over frankfurt or other cities is not a local phenomenon it's a large scale phenomenon which. people in germany are exposed to this air pollution on a daily basis. if you're exposed to this pollution for a longer period of time doozies is well developed. together with other scientists your slowly filters calculated that 7000000 people worldwide die prematurely from air pollution every year in germany the figure is probably 50000

lifestyle diseases caused by obesity smoking and alcohol abuse remain the biggest health hazard but air pollution poses the greatest environmental threat to global health. and i advise everyone to look out of an airplane window from down here you can see how dirty the air is but if you look down from up high you see very clearly imagery from the early on when you realize that it's they say your breathing in and out more than 10000 times a day and it's clear that the air really needs to be clean if you want to live a healthy life because when his name to inflect it's possible that we're on the right track and pollution has decreased slightly but we're still a long way from meeting clean air targets a lot more needs to be done. reducing

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