Monday, April 7, 2008
Is the Environment Suffering?

There is no doubt that our environment is suffering today. With globalisation and industrialisation, the quantity of pollutants (air and water) in our environment have increase indefinitely in recent years.

For this post, i will focus on air pollution as it is one of the main environmental concerns in the world today. From the pie chart shown above, the main source of air pollutants is on-road mobile. Vehicles emit alot of air pollutants, one of which is carbon 
dioxide, a greenhouse gas. These air pollutants should not be taken likely as it will have an
adverse effect on our environment. In this case, it is air pollution and global warming. In my opinion, we, the inhibitants, and our environment are interlinked. Therefore, if one of which will to suffer, the other one will definitely be dragged along in the suffering process. Air pollution will cause serious problems like breathing difficulty, sorethroat, skin itchiness and other air-related health problems while global warming will ultimately affect our climate and hence our agriculture economy. Stating these much, it will make us ponder why have we not done our part to save our environment and ironically doing more to pollute it. Therefore, it is time for us to do something to solve this urgent matter. STOP DRIVING CARS.

Shi Xiong (9)