In When Rivers Burned:
The Earth Day Story, I talk about the 1948 smog in Donora, PA, which killed
twenty people there.
But the United States wasn’t the only country with smog
problems. The deadliest smog in recorded history was a “killer fog” that struck
London in December 1952.
It was so thick that people couldn’t see their feet. Thousands
of people were hospitalized, lips blue, struggling for breath. At least 4,000
people died. The death toll could actually be many times higher.
This incident
led to Britain’s Clean Air Act.
Find out more at the History Channel website:
http://www.history.com/news/the-killer-fog-that-blanketed-london-60-years-ago
1 comment:
This all sounds like a dystopian future rather than the actual past, Linda. Thanks for increasing our awareness of how fragile our environments it.
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