Air Pollution: An Issue In The World

Air Pollution greatly affects our health and well-being on a global scale resulting in deaths and health difficulties for a great portion of the world population. The diseases that are a result of breathing in the toxic air are lung disease, heart disease, strokes, Asthma and cancer. As Kate Galbraith states, “Dirty air can cause lung damage as well as heart disease, strokes and cancer” (2). The air we breathe into our lungs is full of containments such as Carbon Dioxide emissions, greenhouse gases and other chemicals. Carbon Dioxide is the gas we exhale from our lungs and by breathing this gas into our lungs we shock our lungs. The disease mentioned before often lead to deaths in which the statistical data regarding that are astonishing. According to the World Health Organization, “Air pollution claimed seven million lives around the world in 2012” (1). This statistic reinforces the idea that air pollution is harmful to us. Seven million deaths is a large figure. Air pollution shortens our life spans, “At an average loss of life of 11.5 yrs,” (Mason, Rowena and Josh Halliday). Eleven and a half years is a significantly large portion of a persons’ life and many things can be accomplished during those 11.5 years but many people don’t have a chance to live those years because of the effects of air pollution. Air pollution is a silent killer and one that can be stopped.

Air pollution not only affects the health of the world population, but affects weather patterns over the Pacific Coast. Storms formed by the Pacific Ocean have strengthened over a period of time and the reason being is that the air pollution caused by many countries in Asia mostly, China changes the way storms are organized over the Pacific Ocean weather ...

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...osts of Air pollution From Agriculture Clarified”). Animal manure releases ammonia into our air and stays there until we breathe that air in. This animal manure pollutes the air along with carbon dioxide. The idea of breathing in ammonia from animal manure is disgusting. Although there is another source of air pollution and that is “the burning of noxious fuels- coal, wood and animal waste,” (Jacobs). Coal is a source of fuel for many purposes but it gives off fumes when it is burned for use. These fumes pollute the air even more. Coal, motor vehicles, wood burning and animal manure are powerful containments in the air. Be careful of what you breathe in, you never know what is in the air.

One might object that air pollution is an important issue that has to be resolved. One might argue this by claiming that costs of solutions for the problem are too high.