Introduction:
Air pollution and climate change have a serious impact on us and our world. Everyone helps reducing air pollution make a cleaner world for a better tomorrow. Time is limited, we have to take our individual responsibilities to rescue ourselves and our world today.
In this article, we will tell you the knowledge of air pollution and how you are able to reduce it easily with a lot of blessing you are getting. This is the most priority jobs we can do for our world with urgency in our daily list.
What is air pollution?
Air pollution occurs when the air contains a harmful amount of gases, dust, fumes, and odor. Gases that trap heat in the atmosphere are called greenhouse gases (GHG). The heat-trapping by GHG causes changes in the radiative balance of the Earth—the balance between energy received from the sun and emitted from the Earth.
Everyone helps reducing air pollution of Green House Gas make a cleaner world:
GHG consists of Carbon Dioxide, Methane, Nitrous Oxide, and Fluorinated Gases. The severe impact of GHG is causing Global warming (Climate Change)
Super Pollutants (Short-lived Climate Pollutant) consist of Methane, Fluorocarbon, and Black Carbon (Soot) – causing global warming and illness to the human body.
Microscopic Pollutants (Particle Pollutants) are a mixture of solid particles and liquid droplets found in the air. Some particles, such as dust, dirt, soot, or smoke, are large or dark enough to be seen with the naked eye. Some are so small they can only be detected using an electron microscope – causing global warming and illness to the human body.
Toxic gases consist of Nitrogen Oxide (NO & NO2), Ozone, Sulfur Dioxide (Odor), and Benzene – causing illness to the human body.
Understand the impact of Air Pollution, so please helps reducing air pollution?
Impacts of Air Pollution:
- Cost pay by the hospital and our lungs – can cause heat-related illness or death.
- Ocean acidification increasing certain types of air pollution.
- Extreme weather – It can bring severe heat waves, floods, and droughts.
- Glacial Ace melting – Rises of sea level – Loss of land area.
- Plant and Animal extinctions – Break the balance of the ecosystem.
- Wildfire – Loss of jungle area and animals.
Super Pollutant impacts our health:
- Soot mainly comes from transportations and the industries burning of fossil fuel.
- Carbon is a dangerous and high potential to heart attacks and strokes, cancer, developmental effects in children, and premature death.
- Methane is mainly emitted from the oil and gas supply chain through purging and flaring.
- Methane reacted with sunlight can form ground-level ozone, which can dramatically reduce crop yields.
- Fluorocarbon used as a refrigerant and domestic air-condition.
- Fluorocarbon is more potent than carbon dioxide to destroy ozone in the atmosphere.
Seriousness of Particles Pollutant:
- Carbon Particles Pollution is resulting from fossil fuel burning.
- Acute asthma happened to children or adults.
- Couching or difficult breathing.
- Heat-related illness.
- It is depleting the nutrients in the river base, coastal base, and ground soil.
- Acid rain effects.
- Affecting the diversify of the ecosystem.
Seriousness of Toxic gases:
- Nitrogen oxide, mostly produced by vehicles.
- Formation of fine particles.
- The NOx reacts with other pollutants in the presence of sunlight to form ozone.
- Ozone is harmful to the airway and lungs.
- Sulfur dioxide irritates the skin and mucous membranes of the eyes, nose, throat, and lungs.
- Benzene is a cause of cancer in humans. Short-term causes skin, throat, and lung irritation. Long term causes excessive bleeding and can affect the immune system, increasing the chance for infection.
Air Pollution is a public health emergency, attributing seven million deaths to exposure to unhealthy air. Health is paying the price of the climate crisis. Our lungs, our brain, our cardiovascular system suffered the most for the cause of climate change, which is overlapping with the purpose of air pollution.
Sickness related to Air Pollution:
- Pneumonia
- Pleurisy
- Bronchitis
- Asthma
- Cardiovascular mortality
- Perinatal mortality
- Coronary heart diseases
- Cancer
- developmental disabilities in children
- deliver babies prematurely
- etc.
Here are the solutions, please helps reducing air pollution:
The solution needs Countries contribution to reducing air pollution:
- Reduce the use of fossil fuel for engines, burning, or heating industrial or domestic.
- Replanting helps to reduce carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
- Seventy-three countries signed the Paris Agreement, an international pact to combat climate change by investing in a sustainable, low-carbon future.
- Eliminating soot from transport and households – scrapping polluting vehicles, stoves, boilers, and ships – develop zero-carbon traffic and houses.
- Introduce enforcement, reducing methane emission throughout the oil and gas supply chain by stopping venting and flaring.
- Phase down using Hydrofluorocarbon in refrigerants and industries.
- One potential solution scientists are examining is to suck the carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and bury it underground indefinitely.
- Manage agricultural residues, strictly enforcement bans on open burning.
- Prevent forest and peatland fires through land planning, water management, and fire prevention strategies.
- Improve burning efficiency and additional insulation for Brick kiln wall.
- International shipping use low sulfur fuel by law enforcement.
- Introduce covered storage and efficient application of manures; encourage anaerobic digestion.
- Use incentives to foster the extended use of wind, solar, and hydropower for electricity generation.
- Strictly enforce bans on open burning of household waste.
- Go for Clean cooking and heating – Use clean fuels – electricity, natural gas, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) in cities, and LPG and advanced biomass cooking and heating stoves in rural areas.
- Strengthen all emissions standards; a particular focus on the regulation of light- and heavy-duty diesel vehicles.
- Enforce mandatory checks and repairs for cars.
- Suppress construction and road dust; increase green areas.
- Encourage a shift from private passenger vehicles to public transport (electricity transit).
- Promote the use of electric vehicles by the local government.
The Solutions need everyone’s contribution reducing air pollution:
- Plant a tree to help reduce air pollution.
- Replace regular light bulbs with compact fluorescent light (CFL) bulbs, use two-thirds less energy, and give off 70 percent less heat.
- Turn off lights, computers, television or radio when you are not using them.
- Wash your clothes in warm or cold water to reduce your use of hot water and the energy required to produce it.
- Plant a tree if you have space in your garden – A single tree will absorb approximately one ton of carbon dioxide during its lifetime.
- Look for the ENERGY STAR label when buying home or office equipment.
- Use water-based paint or low VOC paint.
- Use an environmentally friendly cleaner.
- Choose the use of electric-based vehicles.
- Choose public transport, and the best is electricity transit.
- When you are driving, accelerate gradually and strictly obey the speed limit.
- Drive less, on the days with unhealthful air quality.
- Maintain your vehicle tires properly inflated.
Everyone’s Responsibilities
Everyone has the responsibility to help to fix the climate change crisis and air pollution issue. The solution to tackle climate change and reducing air pollution is not a difficult task, but is a choice for you only.
Every state actively bans smoking tobacco. But fossil fuel combustion is the primary driver of climate change and also a significant contributor to air pollution.
The programs in place helps reducing air pollution?
- World Health Organization (WHO) reported that 198 countries pledged to pursue “Safe” air quality by 2030.
- Coal-fired electricity must end by 2050 so that to limit global warming rises to 1.5C. We may not want to see a significant climate crisis coming very soon.
- China has 200 million bikes using for daily commuting is indeed helping to reduce Air Pollution.
- Amsterdam wants to only allow carbon-free vehicles by 2030 is certainly an encouraging news.
- Oslo implemented its car ban in 2019, but not all politicians are pleased.
- Madrid plans to ban older cars, especially from 500 acres of its city center by 2020.
- Hamburg is making it easier not to drive, in order to reduce Air Pollution.
- Copenhagen has 50% of its population using bikes to work every day is truly an excellent achievement.
- Paris will ban diesel cars and double the number of bike lanes, certainly help a lot to reduce Air Pollution.
- London asks drivers to pay a congestion charge for the purpose of reducing car use in the city.
- Brussels is using cameras to enforce a fine for old vehicles in order to reduce GHG in the city.
- Athens joined a pledge to ban diesel cars by 2025 in order to eliminate high pollution cars.
- Frankfurt received a court order to ban around 60,000 cars for the reason of eliminating polluted cars.
- Berlin received a similar court order for the purpose of banning the polluted cars.
Car free campaign in the city help reduces Air Pollution:
- New York forbids cars to enter Central Park, which certainly helps protect air quality.
- In September 2019, Milan joined Rome to implement a three-day ban on passenger car use in order to reduce car use.
- Bogota closes its streets every Sunday from 7 am to 2 pm in order to prevent cars entering the city.
- Any country promotes the use of electric bike help reduce air pollution make a cleaner world..
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Conclusion:
In summary, everyone can contribute to help reduce air pollution to save ourselves and our world. Are you ready to act? If you have a different opinion, please give your comment to us, we will reply to you within 24 hours.
Let us conclude some of the actions that can reduce air pollution here.
- Can our scientists able to find the solution to suck the carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and bury it underground indefinitely? I hope technology can find a way to do it in the next three to five years.
- Replace fossil fuel combustion by using renewable energy needs every country to implement law enforcement to push it up. Air pollution can significantly improve by cutting down the usage of fossil fuel combustion. You are invited to take action here for your own health and people around you.
- Choose any action that can help reduce air pollution in your daily activities. Everyone contributed a small action, can accumulate to become a great help to reduce Air Pollution.
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This is great article. purely educative. we all need to know about air pollution. It is not just important for the environment in which we live in, but also for our health. Many sickness are borne out of air air pollution, which is why this article is very important for each and every person to read. Numerous kinds of Sickness that are related to air pollution: Pneumonia, Pleurisy, Bronchitis, Asthma, Cardiovascular mortality, Perinatal mortality, Coronary heart diseases, Cancer, developmental disabilities in children, deliver babies prematurely are enphasized in this article. I have one question: Is the deadly cornavirus as well born out of air pollution? Nice work!
Is the deadly coronavirus as well-born out of air pollution? I hope the answer is yes. Climate change can alter extinct species and shifting the ecosystem. Thus it is possible to generate new species, likes COVID 19. Is COVID 19 a new species? Reduce air pollution certainly can lower down many disease and sickness.
Due to CONVID 19, WUHAN sky is blue due to air pollution dropped with less activity in industries and transportation. The CONVID 19 contribute to less air pollution to all affected cities.
Thanks for concurred our article that every person to read. I hope some solution can implement by everybody reading the article. To save our earth, our air, and our health, we need everybody effort to tackle air pollution.
Hiya Admin,
Thank you for your information about solutions to air pollution. The statistics made sobering reading for a gas guzzling diesel car driver like myself. I have a large family and I am disabled so I am limited in my car choices. My car is a motability one and I don’t think they offer electric vehicles that size but I am due an upgrade so I will definitely look into it with the help of your excellent guide.
Can I ask how paying a congestion charge helps with the environment? I have planted two trees in my garden, an apple tree and a pine tree which I am very proud of and it was fascinating to find out how much carbon dioxide they remove from the atmosphere – really makes me feel like I’ve done my bit and kind of atones for the use of my car.
Thank you for helping me to think about my impact on the world around me, krs PurpleLioness
As London said, traffic cut down 30% after collecting the congestion charge to enter the city center. Your diesel car may produce polluted gas if the government still gives the permit to drive, it should not be a problem. There are many other solutions we can take to tackle air pollution. Great, you have plant two big trees in the garden. God will hear your prayer to guide you. Or choose any solution you can do to reduce air pollution.
Some people cut down trees from the forest to get profit for their own. Also, there is a company that sees the coal price is low, install a new coal boiler for operations. Authority approved permit to them for services.
Thank you so much for your informative article which content is solutions reduce air pollution.The air that we breathe today is full of toxic and hazardous pollutants. Pollution in the environment could leave mother Earth sapped of its beauty and biodiversity.All of us make choices every day that affect the air we breathe.
Common activities – such as driving the car, mowing the lawn, burning wood in the fireplace, even using aerosol hairsprays and deodorants – add substantial amounts of pollution to the air.Each year millions of people die all around the world due to different pollution related problems. The key to live a healthy life is to identify the sources of air pollution and implement practical ways so that you can help stop air pollution.
Buy electricity generated from renewable energies i.e. hydroelectric, wind or solar power.Reducing car traffic could be the only solution to reduce air pollution.Use electric bike Instead of car: It’s better for the environment.Plant a garden that is going to give the air the nutrients that it needs to be cleaner. There are so many plants out there that will eat up the junk in the atmosphere.
Thanks for your many good sharing with us. On the positive side, many efforts been in place. Some management sees the low price of coal, convert gas use to coal use for their boilers. Yes, our garden plant tree but cannot compensate industry cutting tree in the forest for its profit. Many companies are struggling for-profit to survive. Voice up by public to authority to stop this unfriendly practice to the environment. Our concern for better tomorrow is not a strict target to achieve. Let us be optimistic about our future.
What interesting information on pollution. I knew a fair amount of pollution and the causes of it. I also knew a fair amount of ways to make the air cleaner, but what you mentioned I didn’t know. I wonder what are your thoughts of electric cars, electric houses will this help as well?
Electric cars and electric bikes will help to clean our atmospheric air with zero-emission. Electricity generation has to stop using coal, oil, and gas with the replacement of renewable energy, which is solar power, wind power, or hydraulic power. Fossil fuel burning is the main driver for climate change and air pollution.
Copenhagen is the greenest, sustainable, and healthy city, with 50% of its population using bikes to go to work every day.
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Thanks so much for sharing this awareness article with us. I understand a lot by reading your article. With increasing environmental pollution day by day, the whole world will be threatened. Because of air pollution, people are suffering from various diseases. I think,the main cause of air pollution is the use of fossil fuel because of this carbon dioxide is increasing day by day. To get rid of this, you have a very good suggestion for using electric bikes. The best solution for reducing air pollution would be to use electric vehicles. I have decided to use electric bikes from now on. I will share the article you have written with my friends.
best of luck.
Thank you for sharing the idea of using electric bikes. Copenhagen city is the best example of using electric bicycles. The world has recognized Copenhagen as the greenest, sustainable, and healthy city. Thanks for sharing with your friends. Your support for our network is highly appreciated.