By: Praghna Palaparthy
We've all heard of the term "air pollution," but how many of us actually realize the significance of its consequences? By definition, air pollution is "a mixture of solid particles and gases in the air." These particles and gases in the atmosphere come from vehicles, dust, pollen, exhaust from trucks, volcanos, wildfires, and etc. Due to modern-day technology we are able to understand what causes air pollution, how much it grows in a period of time, and what we can do to help reduce it. How can we help? Well, average humans can help by following these restrictions:
Reduce the usage of energy.
Use solar power to power homes, and drive electric cars.
Use public vehicles, carpool, bike, and walk.
When filling up your car with gasoline be careful and avoid spillage, do not use more gasoline than needed.
Even with a gasoline car, drive in Eco mode if possible.
Make sure your car tires are properly filled
Use ecosystem friendly things instead
Recycle, reuse.
Divide garbage properly.
Use gas logs and not wood.
The Air Pollution from the 1900s had changed drastically up till 2020 in the U.S, here is a picture from (https://www.bbc.com/) that explains this:
1900 = 0-2 billion tonnes of CO2
1920 = 2-3 billion tonnes of CO2
1940 = 5 billion tonnes of CO2
1960 = 9 billion tonnes of CO2
1980 = 20 billion tonnes of CO2
2000 = 25 billion tonnes of CO2
2020 = 35 billion tonnes of CO2
In this article, we learned some basic facts about air pollution, and how we can help reduce and prevent the increase of global warming. Once again, to summarize the chart above as well as the article, most of the air pollution in our atmosphere is credited to dust, volcanos, wildfires, cars, and more. We can help reduce Air pollution by conserving energy, driving electric vehicles, walking, biking, carpooling, using public transportation, and etc. For more information on air pollution, climate change, and global warming, please visit the following websites:
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