Patrick Lee
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Comms Manager at @ImpUrbanHealth, focusing on air pollution and making cities better places to live. Views are my own. Bluesky: @patrickjalee.bsky.social
London, England
Joined November 2013
Burning wood is devastating people's health, especially in cities 🔥 Despite that, sales of wood burning stoves are increasing 🚨 So how can councils and campaigners inform people about the connections between wood burning and air pollution? 🧵👇
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💰🚨 Air pollution likely costs the world >$10 TRILLION every year — ~10% of global GDP 🚨💰 📑 BMJ Open study (Hegelund et al., 2024) tracked 3.1m Danes for 18 yrs. Result? PM₂.₅ & NO₂ linked to 700+ diseases — not just asthma & heart disease, but diabetes, cataracts,
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10 years on from the Dieselgate scandal, justice still hasn’t been served in the UK. While other countries made carmakers pay, ours let them off the hook. Sign the petition now and demand accountability now! https://t.co/KKNiAgR4Yh via @38degrees
you.38degrees.org.uk
10 years ago it was revealed that many diesel cars were being fitted with illegal technology that means they emit levels of toxic gases (NOx) exceeding testing and legal limits. These emissions...
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🚨Quiz time! ❓🔥According to the latest data, what's the biggest source of fine pollution matter (PM2.5) in the London borough of Southwark? 💡Answers will be revealed next week!
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🪫🧵With news the Government is drawing up plans to reduce household bills, our new research commissioned by @OctopusEnergy shows just how much energy bills are having an outsized impact in contributing to the mood of broken Britain and poor ratings for the Government
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From the University of Birmingham: "For every ten microgram per cubic meter (µg/m³) of increased exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2.5), the risk of dying from any cancer rises by 22%." https://t.co/IiVqQEYh6v
birmingham.ac.uk
Researchers have found that long-term exposure to environmental pollutants was associated with increased risk of mortality for many types of cancer in an elderly Hong Kong population.
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Sustained exposure to air pollution causes cancer. @pompili_cecilia: “Air pollution has been demonstrated to be significant for both genders, especially in younger patients." https://t.co/7O4JhqE4T9
theguardian.com
For decades, lung cancer has been viewed as a disease of older men who smoked. Now, cases among young women are on the rise and doctors are baffled. Could air pollution be behind it?
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📢Our Amplifying Voices strand partners with the communities who are most affected by air pollution to advocate for change. 🫶As part of that strand, we're proud to support @TSIPtweets' work to listen to the communities most affected by air pollution.
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.@_wearepossible are proposing a scheme to get electric cars into the hands of care workers in rural areas, driving long distances to deliver vital services. I’ve just used their webtool to ask my MP to consider this scheme - will you do the same?
action.wearepossible.org
We’ve worked with The Care Workers’ Charity and New AutoMotive to propose a scheme to get electric cars into the hands of the people who need them the most: care workers in rural areas, often driving...
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📢Our Amplifying Voices strand partners with the communities who are most affected by air pollution to advocate for change. ♥️As part of that strand, we're proud to support @EllaRobertaFdn's work to protect children from air pollution. https://t.co/yx1o2S64MN
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🔥A core part of our work @ImpUrbanHealth involves partnering with those who are disproportionately affected by air pollution. In this film one of those partners, @EllaRobertaFdn, talks about their tireless work to protect children from air pollution. https://t.co/Dk8pfRNNQy
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Learn more about @ImpUrbanHealth's work to support the communities disproportionately affected by air pollution here: https://t.co/u9DU4fdGkd
urbanhealth.org.uk
Our Amplifying Voices strand supports the communities who are most affected by air pollution to advocate for change.
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🔥Air pollution harms us all, but it affects some people more than others. 🤝At @ImpUrbanHealth we support the communities who are most affected by air pollution to advocate for change. Last month I had the honour of speaking to one of them: @EllaRobertaFdn.
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🔥Want to know what the biggest sources of air pollution are in your borough? In some boroughs (like Lambeth) burning wood is the #1 source of PM2.5. In others (like Southwark) it's construction. Find out for your borough here 👇 https://t.co/HkAYkWEdPy
urbanhealth.org.uk
As part of our commitment to equitably improving air quality, we're sharing the latest insights from the London Atmospheric Emissions Inventory (LAEI), a crucial dataset that maps sources of air...
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Learn more about the health effects of air pollution: https://t.co/uDPxWYujoe
urbanhealth.org.uk
Debates around air pollution have been sabotaged by misinformation and online abuse. So, what does the research say about how air pollution affects health?
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💔If you live in an area with high air pollution, you're 27% more likely to develop heart failure. 📈For every extra one microgram in an area where people lived, the risk of developing heart failure increased by 7% and the stroke risk grew by 3% https://t.co/lzxtrs8LUj
theguardian.com
Exclusive: stroke risk is 7% higher and heart failure risk increases by 27% in areas with worst level of pollution, research shows
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Angela Rayner pays the wrong rate of stamp duty & it’s a national issue. Johnson’s government squandered billions on sweetheart deals & test and trace contracts which didn’t work ! All of which went to his cronies & nothing happens. If you want to talk about two tier justice BBC?
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Thanks to Angela Rayner, zero hours contracts will be banned, no-one will be subject to fire at will, no-one will be able to be fired and rehired, and no-one will lose their private rented home just cos their landlord wants them out. That's quite some legacy. Thank you Angela.
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Angela Rayner found to have acted in good faith and made honest mistake: Resigns. Any similar outrage for Farage? Any “tax dodger” graffiti outside his house? Any public outcry for him to go immediately? “How could any politician be so stupid?” https://t.co/0j78zJUzVf
theguardian.com
Exclusive: Reform leader’s use of personal services firm is a practice criticised across the political spectrum
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Meanwhile air pollution contributes to 500 deaths every week in the UK, while costing the economy £27-50 billion every year. https://t.co/MSou9mAl9v
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🚨New research has “profound implications” for preventing dementia. 🧠 “The most direct implication is that clean air policies are brain health policies.” ⚠️ “This is something we can change.” https://t.co/pttD8r2n29
theguardian.com
Airborne particles cause toxic clumps of proteins in brain that are hallmarks of Lewy body dementia, study indicates
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