Adv. Dr. Tal Rotman: Even if the degree of pollution is from the power station, you have not checked the electricity generation?
The witness, Prof. A. Grotto: What do you mean I didn't check?
Adv. Dr. Tal Rotman: You don't know what part of the pollution comes from electricity generation.
The witness, Prof. A. Grotto: True, but I know that electricity generation also causes morbidity and cancer. I mean, I didn't have to prove these things, I didn't have to prove again that air pollution causes cancer, lung disease, and no vascular disease. This does not need to be proven.
Adv. Dr. Tal Rotman: No need to prove.
The witness, Prof. A. Grotto: This has been proven in the medical literature in tens and hundreds and thousands of articles.
Adv. Dr. Tal Rotman: There is no need to prove that transportation and power generation cause L.
The witness, Prof. A. Grotto: Nor is air pollution from industry. There is no need to prove that this is a cause because it has actually already been said, the World Health Organization through its bodies says the substances are P 2.5 which is one of the indicators of air pollution, it is a substance that is defined as carcinogenic, so I don't have to prove it now again in the State of Israel.
Adv. Dr. Tal Rotman: You are aware that smoke from ships, there is emission of pollutants from ships in the port?
The witness, Prof. A. Grotto: This, too, there are many sources of pollution that people are exposed to. Our goal, as a public health advocate, is to reduce as much as possible the sources that can be reduced, the PM2.5 that I talked about earlier cannot always be reduced. Some of it comes from a struggle from Africa and we have nothing to do, but the part that we can deal with is our job to deal with.
Adv. Dr. Tal Rotman: I mean, you are actually, if I understand you correctly, you are saying that there are a lot of sources of pollution. There's transportation, there's a port, there's electricity generation, and there's what you said, desert dust. Right? And there is also industry and everyone together pollutes and I try to reduce where I can.