After Paris's coup against SUVs, the UK should slam the brakes on these polluting monsters too | Andrew Simms

Parisians have voted to triple parking charges for these behemoths. Let that be the start of a much wider crackdown Paris has developed a taste for better city living. Its vote to begin pricing sports utility vehicles (SUVs) off its streets by tripling parking charges is part of a diet for reversing autobesity - the trend by car manufacturers towards larger, more dangerous and polluting cars.It's not difficult to see what has driven Parisians' ire: the reasons to dislike SUVs form a tailback so long it's hard to see the front of the queue.Andrew Simms is an author, co-director of the New Weather Institute, coordinator of the Badvertising campaign and the Rapid Transition Alliance, assistant director of Scientists for Global Responsibility and a research associate at the University of Sussex Continue reading...