AIR POLLUTION
BEFORE AND AFTER PICTURE OF SMOG IN CHINA
Smog causes aching lungs, wheezing, coughing, and headaches. These are just some of the immediate side effects from smog or (Ozone) exposure. Prolonged exposure is one of the leading causes of death worldwide. In 2010 air pollution was responsible for more than 3.2 million deaths.
Ozone, an invisible gas, is not emitted directly into the air, but forms when nitrogen oxides from fuel combustion and volatile organic gases from evaporated petroleum products react in the presence of sunshine. Ozone levels are highest during the warm months when there is strong sunshine, high temperatures and an inversion layer. Nitrogen oxides are produced when fossil fuels are burned in motor vehicles, power plants, furnaces and turbines. Carbon monoxide is a by-product of combustion that comes almost entirely from motor vehicles.
Places like in the picture above, see this type of smog and pollution at least 1/3 of the year.(usually during the summer months) This type of exposure does irreversible damage to the lungs and causes permanent damage to children raised in these regions from asthma, emphysema, and chronic bronchitis.
Smog causes aching lungs, wheezing, coughing, and headaches. These are just some of the immediate side effects from smog or (Ozone) exposure. Prolonged exposure is one of the leading causes of death worldwide. In 2010 air pollution was responsible for more than 3.2 million deaths.
Ozone, an invisible gas, is not emitted directly into the air, but forms when nitrogen oxides from fuel combustion and volatile organic gases from evaporated petroleum products react in the presence of sunshine. Ozone levels are highest during the warm months when there is strong sunshine, high temperatures and an inversion layer. Nitrogen oxides are produced when fossil fuels are burned in motor vehicles, power plants, furnaces and turbines. Carbon monoxide is a by-product of combustion that comes almost entirely from motor vehicles.
Places like in the picture above, see this type of smog and pollution at least 1/3 of the year.(usually during the summer months) This type of exposure does irreversible damage to the lungs and causes permanent damage to children raised in these regions from asthma, emphysema, and chronic bronchitis.
CONSERVATION PROJECTS
"Great City” as the designers have deemed it, is just one of the many projects being put into action to control the high pollution that typically comes from densely
populated regions of the world. Great city is being designed to where residents won't need cars because everything is within a 15-minute walk of the city center. The 80,000 people expected to live in the Great City would give it a population density of 61,538 people per square kilometer, even including parks and gardens. That's comparable to some of the most densely-populated city districts in the world. With a mass public transportation system and lack of cars, it "will use 48 percent less energy and 58 percent less water than a conventional development of similar population [and will also produce 89 percent less landfill waste and generate 60 percent less carbon dioxide".
Although 80,000 people is only a small portion of the neighboring city Chengdu, with approximately 7 million, the plan is to place more of these "Great Cities" around the worlds overpopulated and polluted cities to cut down on waste and emissions.
Every small step is a forward step!
"Great City” as the designers have deemed it, is just one of the many projects being put into action to control the high pollution that typically comes from densely
populated regions of the world. Great city is being designed to where residents won't need cars because everything is within a 15-minute walk of the city center. The 80,000 people expected to live in the Great City would give it a population density of 61,538 people per square kilometer, even including parks and gardens. That's comparable to some of the most densely-populated city districts in the world. With a mass public transportation system and lack of cars, it "will use 48 percent less energy and 58 percent less water than a conventional development of similar population [and will also produce 89 percent less landfill waste and generate 60 percent less carbon dioxide".
Although 80,000 people is only a small portion of the neighboring city Chengdu, with approximately 7 million, the plan is to place more of these "Great Cities" around the worlds overpopulated and polluted cities to cut down on waste and emissions.
Every small step is a forward step!
REDUCTION OF TRAFFIC=REDUCTION OF HARMFUL EMISSIONS
By making vehicles less of a necessity, extreme cuts to the oil extraction and production could begin. The oil industry is responsible for about 40% of the worlds methane emission due to the high demand. Methane, being over 20 times more toxic than Carbon Dioxide when emitted directly into the atmosphere is extremely dangerous to be exposed to.
Since it is not possible for all cars to be taken off of the roads, the EPA(Environmental Protection Agency) has taken steps to reduce pollutants in our own nation and providing strict guidelines for the car manufacturers and industries by giving incentives and tax breaks to companies producing fewer pollutants. These strict regulations will "hopefully" someday bring vehicle and industrial emissions to next to nothing to where we won't have to be crammed into these depressingly densely populated cities.
By making vehicles less of a necessity, extreme cuts to the oil extraction and production could begin. The oil industry is responsible for about 40% of the worlds methane emission due to the high demand. Methane, being over 20 times more toxic than Carbon Dioxide when emitted directly into the atmosphere is extremely dangerous to be exposed to.
Since it is not possible for all cars to be taken off of the roads, the EPA(Environmental Protection Agency) has taken steps to reduce pollutants in our own nation and providing strict guidelines for the car manufacturers and industries by giving incentives and tax breaks to companies producing fewer pollutants. These strict regulations will "hopefully" someday bring vehicle and industrial emissions to next to nothing to where we won't have to be crammed into these depressingly densely populated cities.