Doctors say tens of thousands of deaths in 2025 will be linked to air pollution.

> Air pollution negatively affects almost every organ in the body and around 30,000 UK deaths will be linked to toxic air in 2025, according to a new report from leading doctors. The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) said that there is “no safe level” of air pollutants as it warned that around 99% of the UK population are breathing in “toxic air”.

> England’s chief medical officer, Professor Sir Chris Whitty, said: “Air pollution remains the most important environmental threat to health, with impacts throughout the life course. It is an area of health where the UK has made substantial progress in the last three decades with concentrations of many of the main pollutants falling rapidly, but it remains a major cause of chronic ill health as well as premature mortality.”

> “Further progress in outdoor air pollution will occur if we decide to make it, but will not happen without practical and achievable changes to **heating, transport and industry** in particular.

> Charity chief executive Sarah Sleet said: “Air pollution is a public health emergency. It is the biggest environmental threat to human health. Toxic air is a major driver of respiratory conditions and can **cause lung cancer** and trigger **asthma** attacks, as well as flare ups of lung conditions such as COPD, exacerbating symptoms such as breathlessness, wheezing and coughing.”

> On Thursday over 100 doctors, nurses, patients and activists will meet at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London and walk to Downing Street to deliver a letter calling for Government to commit to “ambitious” air quality targets. And one expert from Southampton warned that the nation could be walking into a “microplastics-style crisis”.

I work in construction and we are suddenly getting invited to bid PFAS reclamation sites. Tons of them. It is becoming a huge problem in the ground water, especially around military bases. I am also starting to see billboards for personal injury lawyers saying “Are you sick? Have you been stationed at Camp *insert local base name*? Call us!”

I worry we are going to see an explosion in cancer diagnoses in the next 10-15 years.