Over 125 million people in America live in places with way too much air pollution. The EPA blames the early deaths of over 64,000 people in America on air pollution every year. Asthma, lung and heart disease are also made worse by air pollution. adding on to the negative impacts on health and the environment, air pollution in the form of smog and acid rain have been shown to kill agricultural crops and harm buildings at a cost of between $2 and $3 billion per year.Cars and other vehicles are the biggest source of city air pollution, creating more than two-thirds of the carbon monoxide in the atmosphere, a third of the nitrogen oxides , and a quarter of the hydrocarbons in short the tings that cause smog. Some emissions put out by cars and trucks are known to cause cancer, including toxic things like soot, arsenic, formaldehyde, and lead. "In the 1996 National Toxics Inventory, EPA estimates that mobile sources such as cars, trucks, and buses release about 3 billion pounds of cancer-causing, hazardous air pollutants each year". http://www.epa.gov/
Are there ways to reduce our air pollution, especially from vehicles since they're the largest factor? Are there cars available or being made that release less air pollution?
ReplyDeleteDo you think that if cities used more local transportation it would decrease the emissions?
ReplyDeleteI agree with Adeline. I wonder if there is a way to make public transportation more appealing to people, especially in large cities?
ReplyDeleteWe should really find a way that the air pollution is not bad and still have our main sources of transportations.
ReplyDeleteAre there dramatic differences in the statistics of cancer and other diseases associated with air pollution between rural and urban areas?
ReplyDeleteThe fact that mobile sources, such as cars, buses, and trucks release 3 million pounds of cancer- causing hazardous air pollutants each year really worries me. I wonder how we could lower the pollution being released each year, do you have any idea's?
ReplyDeleteAre there any types of transportation or cars that produce less pollution?
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