Why Good Air Quality Is Important?

On average, a person inhales about 14,000 litres of air every day, and the presence of contaminants in the air can adversely affect people’s health and people with pre-existing respiratory and heart conditions, diabetes, the young, and old, which are the most vulnerable noted the article, Why Good Air Quality is Important (2014). Therefore, it’s important to plants, animals, and humans to breathe quality air since it supports good health, provides energy, it makes you feel and look great and it’s essential to life. Humans breathe in oxygen and breathe out Carbon Dioxide, as well as a vast number of animals, so what is taken in can be harmful to their health, growth, and beauty. Similarly, plants, trees, and crops need air to breathe, it

However, the difference is, there are serious risks to health not only from exposure to PM but also from exposure to ozone (O3), nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and sulfur dioxide (SO2) WHO noted. Canada as focus on reducing both PM and ozone, but as non-existence air quality standards for sulfur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2), currently. WHO guideline value for nitrogen dioxide (NO2) is to protect the public from the health effects of gas vapors, such as (heating, power generation, and engines in vehicles and ships). Sulfur dioxide (SO2) guideline value concentration of 500 µg/m3 should not be exceeded over average periods of 10 minutes duration. It is produced from the burning of fossil fuels (coal and oil) and the smelting of mineral ores that contain sulfur. The main anthropogenic source of SO2 is the burning of sulfur-containing fossil fuels for domestic heating, power generator, and motor vehicles. (Ambient (outdoor) air quality and health

WHO recommendations have helped Canada recognize the seriousness of making sure citizens live in healthier air quality. According to Goldstein, (2017), a study by University of Guelph economics professor Ross McKitrick and economist Elmira Aliakbari noted from 1975 to 2015, concentrations of sulfur dioxide in the air fell 92.3%, nitrogen dioxide 74.4% and carbon monoxide 90.4%. Ground-level ozone, a major component of smog, fell 27% between 1979 and 2015. WHO is using models that other countries could adapt and form their own standard of air quality. Therefore, if countries like my own continue to maintain a lower level of air pollution, or if countries air pollution continues to increase, which affect human health and the environment than the standard should increase or decrease to suit that environment air