Air Pollution In New York City

I became interested in the problem of air pollution in New York City. Air pollution in New York City is becoming more serious than before these past years. People in New York have been breathing polluted air without noticing it. The biggest air pollution that ever happened in New York City happened on the date of 9/11. On 9/11, terrorist’s crashed a plane into the World Trade Center. The huge building collapsed onto the surface and created huge smog that frightened most of the people at the scene of the incident. This air pollution lasted for about one week until people in the New York City worked together to solve the problem. There are many reasons for this problem of air pollution in New York other than the incident of 9/11. I’m more focusing on who caused this air pollution, why did they do this activity that caused air pollution, how did they do this activity, when did they stop this problem, who is the main cause, and where was this activity is been done. New York City is one of the biggest cities in America and it has a huge population of people living in New York, about 12 million people. People in New York City are the ones that are responsible for the problem of air pollution in New York City. According to Dan Fagin (2005), the air pollution is from the vehicle exhaust and other sources of urban pollution. There are a lot people that are living in New York and many of these people or families have a vehicle of their own. These huge amounts of vehicles that produce smoke every day cause the air to be polluted. Factories in New York City are also one of the main sources of air pollution. Factories could create dangerous elements of smog and ground-level ozone, which is toxic to the respiratory system and particulate matter, tiny airborne specks of either liquid or solid particles that consist of soot and acids that can lodge deep in our lungs (Williamson, 2005). This problem could affect our health.

I plan on writing three arguments about this problem that people in New York should not do. With this argument, air pollution in New York could be reduced to a smaller amount. First, factories in New York City produce a lot of smoke these days. This smoke could pollute the air easily. Moreover, New York City has a lot of people living there and many of these people have their own vehicles. Vehicles produce smoke from the exhaust. Too many vehicles cause a lot of smoke in the air and could cause the air to be polluted. Finally, open burning fire should be illegal to prevent people from burning their trash or garbage. Burning garbage produces a lot of smoke into the air environment.

I have found a variety of articles on this topic that I learned and it gives me plenty of information of the topic of New York environments. I also have a useful website that helps me to solve the problem of the topic.



Reference:

Fagin, D. (2005, July 17). Ozone’s lingering effects; Smog from city damages plant life on Long Island. Newsday Article. Nassau and Suffolk edition. Retrieved 10/25/05 from Lexis Nexis website.

Williamson, D. (2005, July 9). Prisoners of pollution: Doctors, Patients demand fast action on smog. Windsor Star Article. Final Edition . Retrieved 11/07/05 from Lexis Nexis Website.

New York’s pollution causes bad health for the babies


In the article entitled, “In New York, Air Pollution Reaches Babies in the Womb”, which was written by Kate Ruder, newborn babies are not in healthy conditions because of mothers in New York had been breathing dirty air. New York’s dirty air causes health damage among the people in New York. Most victims are mothers who are pregnant. According to Ruder, scientists believe that babies that are born in New York City had accumulated a high amount of genetic mutations with the babies. The reason is that the polluted air or dirty air environment in New York City that is caused by the vehicles, factories, smoking mothers and other sources of urban population. Mothers in New York somehow do not breathe clean air because of the polluted air and all the sources of urban pollution. Newborn babies have more toxics in their bodies more than their mothers who are smokers. Dirty air in New York City can cause lung cancer to everyone and especially is bad to pregnant mothers health ad that of their babies. All types of pollutants and tobacco smokes also can increase the risk of having lung cancers. Mothers and newborn babies have the same DNA but because of the damage from the pollutant it became different DNA. According to the author, “fetus is exposed to a ten-fold lower dose of pollutants than the mother”. However, a fetus that is infected with the environmental toxins will not be able to recover the damaged DNA from the mother’s bodies. Scientists had found a way to understand the problem of the mother’s and the newborn baby’s DNA that been damaged by the air pollutants by analyzing stretches of mutated DNA.

The whole article explains that the air pollution in New York City can cause bad negative effects on people. New York City’s air pollution can cause pregnant mothers to have mutated newborn babies. This means that mothers in New York have been breathing dirty air that can cause bad health to them. Some governments do not care about the environmental problems in New York City because they only consider themselves.

First, pregnant mothers should not be smoking. This is to prevent the babies’ health from becoming bad. To solve this problem, people or government could create a Quit Smoking Campaign. This campaign is for the people who abuse smoking to help them to stop smoking or to reduce their smoking habit. The other way to prevent people from smoking is to show people that smoking can end our life. Advertise that smoking can kill from the newspaper, banner, television, radio and other media sources. Government can raise the price of cigarettes in the market. If the prices of a box of cigarettes are expensive, people would rather not buy it because the price is too expensive.

Moreover, smoke for vehicles can be reduced by finding a way to solve this problem. New York City has a lot of people. Each person in New York City needs transportation to go to some destination. New York City has a variety of transportation that uses oil gas. These vehicles produce a lot of smoke to the environment of New York City. This is why the air is polluted and people find it hard to breathe in this environment. To solve this problem, people could share a car or carpool to work. This can reduce the amount of cars in New York City. The other way is, people could use transportation that does not produce smoke, for example electric train. Electric train is one of the best ways to reduce smoke in the environment. Electric train does not produce smoke into the air because it does not use oil gas.

Finally, people in New York City do not care if they are breathing clean air or dirty air that has been polluted. In New York City, people have always been busy with their work and they do not care about their surroundings. A lot of people in a day breathe this polluted air. To solve this problem, I recommend that people in New York City should often use a facemask. This can help to protect them from breathing the dirty air environment and this is useful for pregnant mothers.

In conclusion, the environment in New York should be taken care of by all the people in the city. If the problem is solved, mothers and fathers also do not have to worry about their health infecting their children’s health. No air pollution, freedom of healthy body.


Reference:

Ruder, K. (2004, July 23). In New York, Air Pollution Reaches Babies in the Womb. Genome News Network. Retrieved 11/1/2005 from:
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Smog Destroys the plants


In this article entitled, “Ozone’s lingering effects; Smog from city damages plant life on the island’ written by Dan Fagin; a staff writer for Newsday. According to D. Fagin’s article, he explains that the polluted smoke in New York City travels on Long Island and causes bad effects to the plants there. Because the surrounding air is being polluted by smoke it is creating huge smog. This smog can cause bad effects to the environment surrounding the place. They predicted that this smog always comes from the East in summer. By July, for some of the plants, for example bean plants, the leaves of this plant will change color similar to the color of a rusty nail. A month later, the leaves will start to fall down to the ground and the ground will be full of leaves. This polluted air can destroy farm’s crops and garden plants because the smog that creates bad ozone could hurt the plants. The reason New York City’s air is being polluted is because of the vehicle exhaust and smokestack pollution that creates a chemical reaction in the air. Because of the large number of vehicles in New York City, the air is always being polluted and it becomes huge smog. The amount of smog in the city is much higher than the amount of smog in the village. The other reason is that in the city there is a lot of machines in the factories that create smoke. These machines produce a lot of smoke and throw it into the air. This is also making the air polluted.

The author is arguing about the air pollution in New York that keeps increasing because of the irresponsible activity that the public does creating smoke or air pollution. This air pollution in New York creates a huge amount of smog and it is traveling to a beach that has farms and crops. This smog damages or destroys the plants.

The author argues that the government should find a way to solve this problem. I agree with the author that smog in the air should be stopped to prevent anything bad happening to the environment.

First, the smog from New York City has destroyed the farms and crops on Long Island. This is what the farmers in Long Island are very upset about; that their hard work of planting has been destroyed by the smog. There is a way to solve this problem and to prevent the plants or crops from being destroyed or damaged by the smog. People on Long Island could build a greenhouse for the plants. A greenhouse would allow the plants to be covered in a big house with transparent glass for the plant to get sunlight. This greenhouse also prevents anything from outside to come inside the house, so smog could not go into the plants and destroy them.

Moreover, vehicles create plenty of smoke in the air and this is what causes the air to be polluted. People use vehicles almost every day to go from one place to another place. To solve this problem, people can carpool together to go to work or some place. People share a car together to go some places rather than bring their own car. This way we can reduce the smoke that is coming from the vehicles by reducing the number of the vehicles on the road. People also can use transportation that is not producing any smoke in the air; such as electronic cars, bicycles or other kind of transportation that is not using oil or gas.

Finally, factories and power plants in New York City have produced a high amount of smoke. This huge amount of smoke is creating dirty air in the environment of New York City. This dirty air can cause people to have asthma, impaired lung function or lung cancers, and can cause death. To solve this problem, people could create factories that throw their smoke in the ground. With this way the smoke is being reduced in the environment. Scientist could invent a machine that does not produce any smoke. With this way, we could at least reduce a little bit of amount the smoke of in the air.
In conclusion, there are many ways to solve the problem of air pollution. If air pollution is being stopped, people both in the city and in the village will be happy with the environment. People can breathe the fresh air without worrying if the air is polluted.



Reference:

Fagin, D (2005, July 17). Ozone’s lingering effects; Smog from city damages plant life on Long Island. Newsday Article. Nassau and Suffolk edition. Retrieve 10/25/05 from Lexis Nexis website.