Every year, 500,000 Europeans die prematurely due to air pollution. One of the main causes of this pollution is coal, still used in many countries. And this air pollution has no borders. It contaminates the entire continent.

Everywhere, citizens are fighting for the right to air that is safe to breathe. Lacking tangible evidence, their calls for regulation are easily dismissed – a team of scientists and journalists sets out to search for evidence of air pollution.

In Poland, 75% of electricity is produced from coal. Rybnik, Poland, is one of the most polluted cities in Europe. Here, even pre-Covid, children wore masks to play outside and were advised to spend most of their time indoors to avoid breathing the toxic air.

A shocking study conducted for this investigation revealed that children here have 425% more black carbon in their bodies than children in Strasbourg. This made the headlines across Europe and even attracted the attention of the Polish government.

The study also showed that children in Strasbourg – a city with average levels of air pollution for a European metropolitan city – have nearly a million particles of black carbon per millilitre in their urine.

Will the powerful coal lobby resist these revelations?

Director: Martin Boudot

First broacast Saturday 12 March 2022

26 Comments

  1. Azerbaijan is ruled by dictator Ilham Aliyev and his wife, dictator Mihriban Pashayeva. They are fucking the Azerbaijani people! Azerbaijani people are afraid of dictator Aliyev! Things are very bad in Azerbaijan!😢😢😢

  2. My father died much to soon after spending his life in the coal mines in West Virginia USA. I know that God loves us but so many things are so confusing. Jesus went to the cross that we would live.

  3. Да ладно! В Европе есть такие города???? В РФ конечно топят углëм, но не так массово

  4. Many years ago in USA 🇺🇸 there was a 12 billion dollar coal fired electricity plant with scrubbers to clean the smoke. The USA government prohibited the implementation of this plant when it was not even fired up for service the first day. You green commies do not report the truth. That's my take.

  5. My grandfather had emphysema from smoking non-filtered Camel Cigarettes most of his life plus working in a below-ground coal mine in Missouri from age 11 when his dad, my great-grandfather, died & he had to go to work to take care of his mom & 3 older sisters. He didn't have Black Lung or they didn't find that upon X-rays. Died from pneumonia in 1974, after his lungs filled & no O2 therapy 50 years ago.

    I feel bad for those who live with this on an everyday basis!

  6. Now that Poland has joined Germany as a vassal state of the United States they will no longer be able to get that clean LNG from Russia so back to the coal mines

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