Comments on: Milanese Children Suffer as City Named Pollution Capital of Europe

By: Tomas

Tomas — Fri, 15 May 2009 03:42:50 +0000

Have you ever been to sofia??? I stayed overthere in the center for two years and i had to runaway. Milan is really clean compare to it. (Now i live 20km frm Milan). I remember sometimes i decided to wash my car and within 24 hours was more then 1cm of dust on it. To open window means decide to invite cleaning service.. Milan is still ok. If europe doesnot finish for you behind germany try to have a look bit further east. Car park conteins more then 50 percent of old wracks with no katalysators.Check it out. …. But compare to other italian cities Milan is ugly….I agree

By: Filippo and Monica

Filippo and Monica — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 19:09:26 +0000

1) none of you understood the point of this article
2) what has Netherlands or immigrants have to do with milan’s pollution?
3) from where the hell are you writing? because we dont think london, or other british/american cities are less polluted than milan. and by the way what kind of name is gavin hudson?
4) we are italians so think twice before posting such idiot comments
5) four points are enough. :)

By: kennedy star

kennedy star — Fri, 09 May 2008 17:35:30 +0000

hope the kids get help soon!

By: Tino Devio

Tino Devio — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 02:54:20 +0000

It appears to be coincidental that fashion and waste are in close correlation.

I do hope that fashion is going to become more sustainable in Milano.

By: Louis Vuitton

Louis Vuitton — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:51:32 +0000

If I lived in that city I would move out right away. Air pollution is known to take out within 5-10 years of normal life expectancy.

By: MCG

MCG — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:16:17 +0000

yeah, I’m sure he does. Unlike the US, in Europe right-wing (most of times) means liberal

Yeah but even if liberal has different meaning in Europe and America conservative doesn’t really. And the Netherlands is still probably the least conservative country in the world with the only competition being Scandinavia. We are also not especially right winged and certainly not intolerant. Not by European standards and certainly not by international standards. It’s a weird comment by Fugal.

By: Nicola

Nicola — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:53:15 +0000

Why monitoring 10+10 days only, with the first period across Christmas holidays ? In Rome (>500 Km away) we had the same increase of children admission rates at hospitals during the Christmas period. This was caused by family doctors being on holiday, not by pollution
( article in Italian ).
Also, it’s flu season. You can get cleaner data during other seasons, by eliminating one possible variable.

I’m pretty sure Dr Alessandro Fiocchi can easily obtain data for one year or more, since he works at a hospital. So I’m confident he can provide more reliable findings from a statistical point of view.

By: tom

tom — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:55:01 +0000

yeah, I’m sure he does. Unlike the US, in Europe right-wing (most of times) means liberal

By: mooop

mooop — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:41:08 +0000

I think Fugal means “right-wing” when he says Conservative, the same way that the article writer says “Soccer” when they probably mean football.

By: fugal

fugal — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:14:35 +0000

Yea but the Netherlands is Europe’s toilet, honestly some of the most narrow minded and extremely conservative, not to mention xenophobic, individuals come from the Netherlands. I’m not saying they all are, but if ever I could generalize the beliefs of a country so wholeheartedly – it’s true of the Dutch.

WOW I’ve never seen such ignorance coming from an (I assume) European.. Do you even know what Conservatism is? It’s pretty much nonexistant in the Netherlands and Italy is ironically one of the most conservative Western European nations. Maybe you were talking about right winged? In which case your comment would be less baffling but still completely off the mark. In any case by any measure the Netherlands is and has always been one of the most liberal progressive nations in the world. What exactly in the Netherlands do you find so conservative? Pretty much the only political party that we have that could be considered conservative by international/Italian standards is the SGP and they have 1% of the vote.