THERE was a time when concern over air pollution used to be treated as an exaggeration. Now it is just about everyone’s disturbing story. One family to the next there are cases of cancer, asthma and an array of mild and serious breathing disorders. As it has been with smoking, awareness has taken a long while to sink in. When it finally has, an enormous price has already been paid in terms of public health.
But if awareness has come, in public discourse there is a humdrum quality to the concern and very little of the urgency one. . .
