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ULEZ is completely unnecessary because pollution has been dropping on its own for decades, due to usage of cleaner energy sources.
The idea that London is still some Victorian, smog-filled city because of transit vans is ludicrous. ULEZ is just a money-making scam.
So what you are saying is that cleaner cars on the roads works. Great I agree with you. My point is that ULEZ is not about climate, it is about health. Fewer cars that pollute can only be a good thing. And if making you buy that cleaner car is going to cost you, then I care as much about that as you do about kids health.
The main source of pollution was the coal industry, and pollution levels were already low without ULEZ: https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2017/06/air-pollution-london-vs-delhi-768x544.png
Comparing to other countries and other industries is not helpful. If children in London are dying from car pollution we should reduce it. We should also reduce coal burning but that doesn't mean we have to ignore car pollution, especially as i doubt there are coal power stations in London.
Ignore the Delhi comparison, because it's not relevant. It was just the best graph I could find.
Regardless of ULEZ, pollution has been and still is falling.