Air Pollution and Preventing Air Pollution, Health Issues and Why Preventing Air Pollution is Important

Preventing air pollution is important for our whole world to be doing. It’s important that everyone is aware of how they can prevent air pollution and also the health issues that could occur is they don’t.

There are many ways you can prevent air pollution. A major one that everyone can do is to conserve energy. Conserving energy and just doing simple things like turning off lights, appliances or anything that uses electricity when we aren’t using it can help make sure harmful chemicals/pollutants stay out of the air as much as possible. Simply looking up simple ways to decrease how much air pollution we caused can change our world drastically, everyone needs to be made aware of what they should be doing to prevent air pollution and what will happen if they don’t.

If we don’t start to take preventing air pollution seriously a lot of damage could be done. A lot of people I’m guessing under stand that air pollution can affect our world and environment drastically but I don’t think everyone knows how much it can affect our health.

Breathing in polluted air can affect your organs and body. Air pollution can hurt your heart and lungs for example. Polluted are can also cause you to develop different life threatening diseases, cause cancer and even shorten your life span or kill you.

Preventing air pollution is something we all need to take more seriously. We should all be educating more people and taking actions to prevent our air from getting polluted. We also need to prevent air pollution before it’s too late for us to do anything. We need to do something now before we are living in a air polluted world and there is nothing we can do about it.

 

 

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Slides from the Air Pollution Lecture

Written by: Rachel Lawrynk

Air Pollution and How to Prevent Air Pollution-Blog Post 1(General information Blog)

When people hear pollution most people don’t think of air pollution right away. Air pollution is something we should all be thinking about more and make sure we understand what it is, what could happen because of air pollution

 

Air pollution by definition is any chemical, physical or biological agent that modifies the natural characteristics of the atmosphere. A lot of different substances can affect the air and cause air pollution. Cars, smoking, burning coal and burning fossil fuels are examples of outdoor air pollution. Smoking, open fire indoor cooking, CO from furnaces and other chemicals from different products we use in our homes, places of work, etc.

 

Air pollution is a bigger problem then many people think. A lot of people don’t know how much if affects people and how the pollution affects someone’s health. China is one of the top countries with air pollution issues and smog issues. In China, about 1.6 million people in die from air pollution a year, that is about 4,400 a day. In the world, it is estimated that 4.9 million people die from air pollution each year.

 

Preventing air pollution is something that more people should be making an effort to do and more people should be informing people about. Regulation, car pool, mass public transportation and switching to clean energy are all ways to prevent air pollution. Regulating what we put into the air and how much of a substance we put in the air can make a big difference. Car pooling and mass public transportation can decrease the amount of air pollution we cause from cars, buses, etc. Also, switching to clean energy can help us put healthier substances into the air and make our air cleaner and healthier to breath in.

 

Without preventing air pollution we would continue to obviously pollute our air but that would cause us to be breathing in unhealthy air and potentially even air that could be very hazardous for us to go outside for long periods of time and breath in. I don’t think anyone wants to get to the point in life that we have to wear certain clothes or masks to go outside so we can breath in healthy air to live. We need to take preventive measures when dealing with air pollution or any type of pollution for that matter so we can live the best lives we can on earth.

Rachel Lawrynk

References

Lecture Slides/Discussion

https://www.sciencedaily.com/terms/air_pollution.htm

https://qz.com/794542/air-pollution-map-by-country-fine-particulate-matter/

https://www.pollutionsolutions-online.com/news/air-clean-up/16/breaking-news/what-would-happen-if-pollution-doesnrsquot-stop/34329

http://air-pollution.in/possible-things-happen-if-dont-stop-air-pollution/

https://www.des.nh.gov/organization/divisions/air/tsb/ams/aqmdp/share.htm