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Air Pollution 

 

Introduction:

One of the other issues Hong Kong faces is Air pollution.  Hong Kong is the eight worst in the world right after Morocco(Casablanca).  This is actually Hong Kong is a well developed city.  For the past few years, Hong Kong has had more cases of asthma and lung cancer due to poor air conditions.  The levels have dropped drastically because of OC (Occupy Central).  The reason that the pollution level has dropped is because the students have most stop people from using main parts of Hong Kong which forces the people to take another road or to stop doing what they usually do.  If Hong Kong was to improve air quality now, we could save about 1,600 deaths a year might be avoided if air quality improves.

 

Economical Impact:

This has a very huge impact because of the medical service needed to support these sick people.  We could save at least 2.1 Million Hong Kong dollars.  We are using this money because of poor air quality and that is not our fault.  The heavy industries are polluting our city everyday with enormous chucks of man made carbon dioxide emissions.  The most harmful carbon dioxide made by mankind is Dioxin.  Dioxin is the most toxic manmade substance known to scientists.  We could stop producing Dioxin today, Dioxin is made by burning rubbish in a machine called an incinerator.  When we burn the rubbish the incinerator releases toxic, if we keep burning the rubbish in our land fields, we will have super toxic made everyday and are affecting us.  We can stop that today, if we stop burning rubbish are start to recycle the rubbish.

 

Statistics:

The main reason to why air pollution is reaching alarming levels is because of the use of cars.  The cars need a source of fuel to use and it is petroleum.  Petroleum is causing a lot of pollution. Taxis use a lot of petroleum and are one of the biggest consumers in Hong Kong. 

Ever since 1999, the Hong Kong Government were forced to start the program because taxis were causing drastic amount of petroleum gas to be released.  This programs aim is to convert taxis to using LPG.  Taxis have signs that tell you weather the taxi is fuel efficient or not.

 

Conclusion:

In conclusion, try not to take cars so much, even if you do try to use public transportation because that saves a lot of fuel.  If you are close to your destination, maybe walk there not take a taxi there. 30 minutes of walking can increase you life by a few years if you do that on a daily bases.