About Air Pollution Campaign

About Air Pollution Campaign

Air Pollution Campaign is our campaign to stop the air pollution.  It's all started from the task given by our college teacher about creating campaign for our environment. We all know, that air pollution has becomes a great problem to the social lives nowaday. The problem about clean air is not negligible anymore. It's time for us to stand up and take care for our nature, and for our next better generation.

What Can We Do About Air Pollution

What Can We Do for Cleaner Air

 

The Go Green movement.

Keeping the air clean is a very important thing to do. With clean air, we will have a healthy life. We can start to take action from the simpliest thing first.

 

Smart Transportation

• Driving less
• Walk or ride by bicycle
• Shop by phone or online
• Ride public transportation
• Look for the lowest polluting model or air-friendly vehicle
• Avoid engines that smoke
• Limit engine idling
• Keep your vehicle tuned, like support the smog check program, replace your air's filter, using a good energy source, tighten your gas cap, and keep your tires properly inflated.

The Effect of Air Pollution

 

The heavy polluted air in China

As we know, air pollution affects our lives and environment. The effects can be short-term or long-term. These are the examples of effects caused by air pollutions.

Health Effects

• Short-term effects that can be realize fast like a burn feeling on eyes and nose, throat irritation and make breathing difficult
• Pneumonia and bronchitis
• In a report from UK, Government experts concluded that people die prematurely between 12,000 to 24,000 every year as a result of short-term exposure to air pollution
• The increase of asthma attacks. The incidence of asthma appears doubled in the last 15 years due air pollution.
• The reaction of pollutants with natural sensitizers can increase the incidence of allergies,such as hay fever
• Some highly toxic chemicals released in the air such as benzene or vinyl chloride can cause cancer, birth defects, and lung injury in long-term period
• Cystic fibrosis - increased risk of pulmonary exacerbations and decrease of lung functions due air polution particles such as automobiles emissions, smoke, and tabacco smokes.
• Strokes, heart disease, cardiovascular disease, lung cancer, and other lung infections
• University of Rochester Medical Center discovered that early exposure to air pollution can damage brain and nerve such as autism, schizophrenia, short-term memory, and lack of learning ability.

 

The Cause of Air Pollution

 

Air pollution caused by industries.

Air pollutions is caused by many factors, by human activity or even by natural cause.

Human Activity Factors

• Human industry
• Deforestation
• Automobile or vehicles that emits nitrogen oxydes, carbon monoxides, and hydrocarbons
• Coal fueled electric power plants
• Air toxic and mercury-contained products
• Military resources such as nuclear weapons, toxic gases,biological warfare, and rocketry
• Waste incenerators
• Traditional biomass burning including wood, crop waste, and dung
• Fumes from drying paints, hair spray, aerosol spray, and varnish used for wood finishing
• Charcoal fire
• Lawnmowers
• Dry Cleaners
• Industrial accidents

Stop Air Pollution!

Why must we concerned about air pollution?

 

Air pollution covering the big cities.

We all familiar about air pollution- as we know, Air pollution refers to the contamination of the atmosphere by harmful chemicals or biological materials. Nowadays, it's become one of the most serious problems in the world.

All living things need air to survive. For example, average human breathes over 3,000 gallons of air each day. However, how if our air is polluted? What is the impact for our lives?