STEP 2014 Conference Key note speech. (Keith Brown MSP)
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Keith Brown MSP Minister for Transport & Veterans
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Transcript of STEP 2014 Conference Key note speech. (Keith Brown MSP)
cleanest available technology
where possible, separate pollution sources from people
In the 17th century, the approach was to seek…
…the same approach is still true today.
“Attributable deaths do not represent the number of individuals whose length of life has been shortened by air pollution.”
“Long term exposure to air pollution…is unlike to be the sole cause of death in individuals...but will contribute to deaths from respiratory and cardiovascular causes, in combination with other risk factors”