Ten years ago, Alastair Harper was an advocate for young people’s health sitting in a stuffy meeting room in London planning an air pollution campaign.(十年前，阿拉斯泰尔·哈珀是年轻人健康的倡导者，他坐在伦敦一间闷热的会议室里，筹划着一场空气污染宣传活动。) “My phone started buzzing,” he said. “I took the call, and then told the room I needed to leave immediately.
十年前，阿拉斯泰尔·哈珀（Alastair Harper）是年轻人健康的倡导者，他坐在伦敦一间闷热的会议室里，筹划着一场空气污染宣传活动。“我的手机开始震动，”他说，“我接了电话，然后告诉会议室里的人我必须立刻离开。”
“I had to get to UCLH [one of London’s major hospitals]. My own child was headed there in a blue-lit ambulance because she was struggling to breathe London’s toxic air.(我的孩子正乘着蓝灯闪烁的救护车赶往那里，因为她呼吸困难，难以承受伦敦有毒的空气。)”
“我必须赶到伦敦大学学院医院（UCLH，伦敦主要医院之一）。我的孩子正乘着蓝灯闪烁的救护车赶往那里，因为她呼吸困难，难以承受伦敦有毒的空气。”
Hundreds of thousands of parents across the UK capital had similar experiences in those years. Between about 6,000 and 8,000 people were dying prematurely(过早地，提前地) each year in London in the late 2010s. In 2020, an inquest(死因调查，验尸) found that the death of Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah(英国首位被认定死于空气污染的儿童) in 2013 had been a direct result of air pollution, the first time it had been listed as a cause of death in the UK.
那些年，英国首都数十万家长都有类似经历。2010年代末，伦敦每年约有6000至8000人过早死亡。2020年，一项死因调查认定，埃拉·阿杜-基西-德布拉（Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah）2013年的死亡是空气污染直接导致的，这是英国首次将空气污染列为死因。