00:00Uno de los aspectos que más impacta a las ciudades es la calidad del aire.
00:06El aire contaminado causa daños irreversibles en nuestro cuerpo, en el cerebro, en el corazón, en los pulmones, pero también
00:13es causa de muerte.
00:15En el mundo, 600 mil niñas y niños mueren al año por respirar aire contaminado.
00:21De acuerdo con la Organización Mundial de la Salud, esto equivale a un niño muerto por minuto,
00:25una cifra que es alarmante porque el 93% de las infancias en el mundo están expuestas al aire tóxico.
00:33Como en el Reino Unido, en donde 40 mil muertes al año son atribuibles a la contaminación del aire.
00:39Y un caso que ha marcado precedentes es el de Ella, una niña de tan solo 9 años de edad
00:46que murió a causa del aire contaminado.
00:49Ella vivía a 25 metros de una de las avenidas más contaminadas de Londres y tuvo innumerables complicaciones de salud.
00:58En 2020, el certificado de defunción de Ella fue el primero en incluir la contaminación del aire como una causa
01:08de muerte.
01:10Su madre, Rosemont, luchó durante estos años para que la muerte de su hija Ella fuera reconocida como resultado de
01:19la contaminación del aire.
01:20Y justo para saber un poco más de este trabajo que ha hecho Rosemont, vamos a escuchar una entrevista que
01:29le hizo Arely Carreón,
01:31que es parte de la Coalición Movilidad Segura y que estuvo en Londres con estas mamás que se autodenominan Mons
01:40for Lungs, mamás por pulmones,
01:42y que luchan por el aire limpio.
01:45Arely, buenas tardes, adelante.
01:48Hola, Héctor. Estoy con Rosemont en Reino Unido.
01:54Hola, Rosemont.
01:56Hello, thank you very much. Hello, Pablo, behind the camera.
01:59I want to ask you, in Mexico, do we have people against the changes for clean mobility?
02:08What would you tell them in order for stop this resistance to change?
02:13Well, one of the things I will talk to them about is people's health.
02:17I have never been to Mexico, but I can only imagine the health impacts over there.
02:26Since my daughter died, so my daughter still remains the only person to have died from air pollution in the
02:33world.
02:33And even without looking at your stats, I know in Mexico, there will be a lot of people who've got
02:39illnesses and people,
02:41children with asthma, old people with respiratory illnesses.
02:46We know on high air pollution days, more people have heart attacks.
02:49I would like to persuade them to think about the health benefits.
02:53So I'm not here to talk about climate or anything like that, but we really focus on health.
02:59And we know, for instance, asthma is a lifelong condition.
03:03Once you've got it, you can't get rid of it.
03:05So that is my focus, that if you put in some of these measures, then the air will be better
03:11and not as many people will be ill.
03:14And I think they need to listen to the doctors and the scientists.
03:18I think I am confident that doctors in Mexico know about this, that air pollution is bad for health.
03:25And I think when you're talking about air pollution as well, you need to look at the impact it has
03:29on the whole body, on all the organs.
03:31We know about respiratory.
03:32That's quite easy to make.
03:33But we need to look at the brain.
03:35We need to look at the stomach.
03:38We need to look everywhere.
03:39It actually impacts the whole body.
03:41So strokes, heart attacks, cancer, it is linked to that.
03:47And I think these are very important conversations we need to have.
03:51Initially, we were talking about just asthma and respiratory, but we know now it is a lot more than that.
03:58And unless we do these measures, things aren't going to change.
04:02I can imagine you must spend millions and millions on your health care.
04:07So I'm not saying it's going to cure everything, but people are going to feel better.
04:11If we breathe better air, people are going to be a lot more healthier.
04:15And it is the same here.
04:17It will be the same in India.
04:19It will be the same worldwide.
04:21What would be your message for Mexican moms on clean air?
04:26I think Mexican moms, they are the ones that mainly take the children to hospital.
04:31They need to demand.
04:33They need to get their voices heard.
04:35They need to mobilize.
04:36And they need to get their doctors also to advocate for them.
04:40The doctors in Mexico need to advocate for their patients.
04:44They are seeing these children in hospital with respite.
04:47I am not there, but I can only imagine what it's like.
04:51And we need to talk up.
04:52It is not right that children should be on oxygen masks.
04:56And as the climate gets warmer and warmer, air pollution gets worse due to all the mixing of the chemicals,
05:02due to ozone, air pollution.
05:04So that's what I will say to them.
05:07I can't imagine what it's like over there because even here, there are deaths.
05:12So in Mexico, it will even be.
05:14And also, I'm worried about the poorest.
05:17They will be suffering the most.
05:19It is the same the world over.
05:21So my message will not change no matter what country I am in.
05:26So it could be Argentina.
05:28It could be Brazil.
05:29It will be because we know there's a link with poverty and breathing dirty air.
05:35Thank you so much.
05:36No problem.
05:37Thank you very much.
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