Clearing up Europe’s Air Pollution Hotspots

Clearing up Europe’s air pollution hotspots. (2015, February 19). Retrieved March 2, 2015, from http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/02/150219101645.htm

 

With air pollution hotspots still remaining in Eastern Europe, Southern Poland and major European cities such as Warsaw, Paris, and Milan, it has been making a major impact on human health, contributing to lung and heart disease.  In order to avoid the not-good environmental effect of these European cities, they would have to follow the WHO air quality guidelines.  Europe, however, will have to strictly control the emissions from coal and wood burning home heating, road traffic, and other sources such as industrial-scale factory farming.

 

The fact that the citizens are encountering such pollution in their area and are at risk of the possibility of having diseases such as lung cancer and heart problems, there aren’t that much choice for a substitute.  If Europe is really concerned about their environment, it should be just right to control the emissions of different types of gases including greenhouse gases.  Even if it is very strict, when it is for the better, there is nothing wrong of doing so.

2 thoughts on “Clearing up Europe’s Air Pollution Hotspots

  1. I think you’ve touched on a tragedy of the commons situation. The problem is there are companies making profits that involve polluting the air… and those companies give people jobs. So that is the opposition to following the WHO guidelines. In the US, we have the Clean Air Act. Do you think those countries could implement a similar law in modern times to help them with this issue?

    Hope you feel like you got a lot out of following your topic Gillian. Thanks for all your hard work on that.

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