my china smog research paper

The city looked like the air was filled with smoke or fog but this isn’t fog it is a cloud of death. As simple as a choice riding a bus every day to school or riding your bike, but little do we know are choices effects our environment and our future. The air in our atmosphere is the key to our

lifecycle and life. Millions of people and your action effect our environment.

“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed.”-Mahatma Gandhi. China has been living in smog for a while now. China has a population of over 1.3 billion people. And 34,750,000 people live in the largest city in the world. Shanghai is located in China (of course). Since the demand for electricity has grown, China has to burn fossil fuels which let out carbon. Now China is trying to stop the smog after red alert went off in Beijing. China has closed over 1,200 factories in the result of smog. It also doesn’t help that coal is the main energy source about 75% energy is based on coal. Smog not only looks ugly, it also harms are health. Smog can cause heart attacks, lung problems, and also can lead to death later on or have lots smog inhaled. But residents of China sometimes don’t have much money to get out of this smog capital. So instead they go for caned healthy air for their children. Or seek homes for better air quality. Bad air contributes to 1.6 million deaths a year or roughly 17 percent of all deaths in China, according to a scientific paper recently published by independent research group Berkeley Earth. “Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.”-Jacques Cousteau.

The trees disappeared year after year, now all I can see is hope and fear destroyed. The forest I once knew is now a coal burning factory. This is also happening in China. I explained on my recent paragraph that since China is so populated the demand of electricity and coal is growing. So where do we get all this electricity and coal to feed the needs of residents of China? Well China is growing in factory numbers. Due to this factor, more and more carbon is being released into the environment. Now, we are cutting down the only things that help us breath, trees. We are also destroying plants and plants suck up lots of carbon and releases clean oxygen. The place you grew up with is now a polluted factory. How ca you change that?

Black liquid spewed out of the ocean floor and reached the surface. The oil rigged failed and left oil, a toxic chemical to fish and other sea creatures. Oil not only hurts sea creatures they also hurts the economy. Also it is a pain to clean up there are many techniques but there super expensive. $627 million lost when Gulf Shores had an oil spill. These disasters also cause pollution. Thankfully we have new high technology to supposedly stop oil spills from happening for a long time. But they can’t take back the sea creatures and lives the oil spill took.

Rocks shaped as ancient statues lies in Easter Island. An island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, just west of Chile. What is so special about this island is that scientist says that these rocks were hand carved millions of years ago and carried to where they stand now. But how could these people carry these thousands of ton rocks? That’s the mystery. But not only they made statues but to carve these statues they chopped down all there trees to make these wood masterpiece. But lots of these animals were gone because they cut down there habitat. So they couldn’t eat. So they used all there greed and cut down trees. Just like deforestation, maybe next time there think twice before you make that decision.

The air of China hasn’t always been this way it is the effect of the human mines. Every deep breath I take is a luxury to China citizens and every breath I take they would buy. But wouldn’t it be nice if the air was clean and all of us could breath as one.