First off I will start by telling anybody that is reading this blog some important facts about air pollution. Like my previous pollution blog I will explain what it is air pollution is contamination of air by smoke and harmful gases, mainly oxides of carbon, sulfur, and nitrogen. Now did you know the average American can breathe about 2 gallons of air per minute and adds up to about 3400 gallons of air each day thats a lot of air to breathe in. also a little history lesson for you in 1952, the Great Smog of London killed 8000 people which pretty much states that air pollution is not a recent occurrence. Something scary for you to also think about it is estimated about 70% of the air pollution caused in Chinese cities is due to tailpipes and about 28% of the Americans believe they are most affected by air pollution caused by vehicles and thats a lot.
Next I will now tell you what the cause are to our planet's polluted air. The three main causes of air pollution are Emissions from industries and manufacturing activities, burning fossil fuels, and household and farming chemicals. So when air pollution is caused by emissions from industries and manufacturing activities it is the process of many waste incinerators, manufacturing industries and power plants that releases large amounts of carbon monoxide and chemicals into the air. Now with burning fossil fuels everybody does that in everyday ordinary stuff. Also when it is caused by household and farming chemicals it is done by crop dusting and just using regular household cleaning products.
Now the final thing for this blog I'm going to mention possible solutions that everyone can do to stop air pollution. Possible solutions could be recycling and re-use things and using greener energy. Now using the solution of recycling and re-using things it is pretty much self explanatory you recycle so the material can be used again and re-using just help prevent us from having to make as much new thing to replace the old ones. So now by using greener energy we would use alternative sources for energy such as wind energy, solar, and any other renewable energy so we can minimize burning of fossil fuels.
So after explaining what air pollution and some other facts on it such as, what some causes are, and mention possible solutions that everyone can do to stop it I hope you can help to save our planet's air. Well, I hope you enjoyed this third blog entry and thanks for reading.
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