Air Pollution And Morality In Los Angeles

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Along the years in Los Angeles, California, air pollution has significantly increased. Consequently, people throughout the city have inhaled toxic waste, causing them to continuously get sick. Air pollution is a problem known worldwide due to the damages it causes such as cardiorespiratory disease. The main reason behind all of this is because of human beings. Humans have constantly been polluting the city, not realizing nor caring for what the aftermath is. I personally cannot go another day knowing that our city, which is nicknamed, “City of Angels”, is being polluted on a daily basis. Seeing this situation in person at the Griffith Park’s Observatory gave me a motivational drive to research more about the whereabouts on air pollution.
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Neuman talked about how the emissions from certain tailpipes on automobiles are the main contributors to ozone
Avazpour 3 pollution increase, which brings me back to my first point on why traffic is bad for our society.
Another article I came across was, “Spatial Analysis of Air Pollution and Morality in Los Angeles” by Michael Jerrett, it was focuses on chronic health effects that was associated within a city due to air pollution. Jerrett quotes,
“We also note convincing evidence of specificity in these health effects, with a stronger association between air pollution and ischemic heart disease than for the more general measures of cardiopulmonary deaths or all cause morality.”
Reading this quote makes me wonder why people don’t cherish what is naturally given to them such as free and clean air. Polluting Los Angeles can start off very little, basic things such as cigarette buds, car oil and burning accessories can make a huge impact towards air contamination in the city. Therefore, we have to keep a clean environment in order to avoid cardiopulmonary deaths or all causes of
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It is due to the fact that there is a lot of association involved with the people within the city. When people interact with one another transportation is needed. Therefore, people use a vehicle in which runs off gasoline; when gasoline is used smoke is exposed to air causing contaminated air to flow within the city. Releasing gas into the air makes it harder to breath for any human being, so question is, why are we harming our selves? Air is something we can’t escape from; we need air in order to survive. And when air is not clean our health is at