Smog is a poisonous gas. Poison gas is outlawed in warfare.
Smog is a poisonous gas. It is extremely toxic to all life forms. Yet we continue to produce it every day. We continue to kill our fellow citizens with it. Every by-product of gasoline and diesel engines is toxic and lethal to all life forms. This has always been so. Black carbon, soot, particulate matter are everyday terms we use to describe uhealthy air that we ourselves make unhealthy by combusting gasoline, diesel, and other fossil fuels in a wanton manner in ill-conceived, overproduced and overused machines.
Many forms of air pollution threaten our health, including traffic-generated particulate. ...click to enlarge. Defend yourself however you can. Do something to educate yourself and your family or community every day. The American Lung Association: email the EPA. Another study finds traffic pollution can speed the hardening of human arteries. Children living and schooling near highways are more suscceptible to asthma; their lung capacity is stunted.
In our car-crazed culture, it is not the perpetrator--the driver--but the victim of pollution who is burdened with avoidance strategies to protect themselves from the deadly effects of breathing polluted air. There is nothing free about a freeway. Somebody gets dosed with health destroying pollution from the traffic.
Environment minister admits mortality figure from sooty particles from transport and industry for the first time to committee of MPs.
Black carbon, soot, particulate matter are everyday terms we use to describe uhealthy air that we ourselves make unhealthy by combusting gasoline, diesel, and other fossil fuels in a wanton manner in ill-conceived, overproduced and overused machines.
