France Offers Its Petrol And Diesel Drivers Up To Ten Thousand Euros If They Change To Electric Cars...

The French Government is about to change the taxes on petrol and diesel so it can offer incentives encouraging car users to give up their petrol and diesel powered cars for electric ones.
Starting in April, France will offer a bonus of up to ten thousand Euros, around US$11,400, to the over eighty percent of those who drive diesel cars and the more than fifty seven percent of those who drive petrol cars.
This offer will apply to vehicles that are more than thirteen years old and aren't equipped with modern particle filters.
All this in an effort to reduce the country's high level of toxic air pollution...
Seems like a deal too good to drive past...

And You Think You're Doing It Hard At The Coal Face...

Perhaps next time you're feeling hard done by
at your workplace, when your tea break isn't long enough to finish the crossword, spare a thought for some of the women working in the most atrocious conditions in Munshiganj, Bangladesh. These women spend their days shoveling and sorting waste coal with little more than a spade and a makeshift sieve.
Wearing no protective clothing, working often in bare feet and inhaling the most toxic dust that causes horrific lung diseases, they're paid less than twenty dollars a week.
These women don't know what a tea break is
but they can still smile.
For some, life is hard at the coal face...