Causes, effects and solutions

In, R, Hotz’s article “The World; Asian air pollution affects our weather; Scientists report more clouds, stronger storms in the Pacific region”, he states that under the influence of Asian instensified air pollution, weather in the area along the Pacific Ocean has became worse in recent years. He points out that because developing countries such as India and China focus on the fast rate of industrial development, they produce a lot of chemical pollutants into the air; therefore, Hotz introduces the close connection between Asian air pollution and the Pacific storms: the more Asian air pollution, the stronger, more frequent, and more destructive the Pacific storms will be. Also, he says that there are many serious intercontinental climatic consequences that are implicated by the adverse situation of Asian air pollution and the Pacific storms. Climatic anomalies more and more appear in almost every corner of the world: more thunderstorms and rainfall are created by thick clouds in winter, the western coast of the U.S can be effected by the air during the spring or summer, the melting of polar ice packs accelerates, and fierce downpours will occur instead of warm showers in a particular purpose. Moreover, Hotz mentions that the Pacific pollution poses a grave threat to human health and plant life. In brief, in the article “The World; Asian air pollution affects our weather; Scientists report more clouds, stronger storms in the Pacific region”, the author analyzes the reason and the current situation of climatologic change due to Asian air pollution and the Pacific storms.

It is apparent that this author’s idea is fundamentally right. We should meet problems head on as soon as possible. If we want to solve the problem of Asian air pollution, it is the first step that we should figure out causes, effects, and solutions of this environmental pollution.

First of all, it’s very certain that the man-made pollution source is the principal factor that caused the Asian air problems. These problems come through in people and governments’ behaviors in the developing countries in the Pacific’s region: the growing population, the increasing vehicles in use, and the industrial energy structure. Excessive population growth is an extremely serious problem facing the Pacific less developed countries. As we know, China and India hold one fifth of the world’s population; yet, there’s an axiom of the environment: the more people there are, the greater the demands and wastes on the earth’s resources. Also, Asian countries pay more attention to industrial booms, with maintaining economic development the main trend, and as a result of expanding economies, the amount of private cars will become increasingly steeper. As a direct consequence, more and more carbon dioxide and other chemical gases in the air are produced because of this social progress. Air pollution has existed in many Asian developing countries, hitting the environment of the Pacific region and affecting the world environment as well.

Next, the direct consequence that the air pollution leads to becomes more and more common and grave. Not only can it destroy the natural system, but also the Asian air pollution can influence human life and human activity directly or indirectly. First, less developed countries spew carbon dioxide, dust, grit and contaminants continuously into the air. The air pollution forms a protective layer above the earth surface so that it prevents heat lost; thus, global warming is beginning to increase. Due to global warming, climastic anomalies and natural disasters happen worldwide. Around the world, no matter where it is developed countries or less developed countries, they sustain losses from droughts due to the fact that there is less mean yearly rainfall than before and warmer winters. Furthermore, dangers to human health are overhanging; air pollution can lead to respiratory disease directly. What is worse, because of the polluted air and the warmer temperature, there is more and more serious infectious disease relating to viruses. For instance, the bird flu closely followed SARS to spread throughout China in just 4 years. Demonstrably, such a sudden, catastrophic result of environment and human health is the primary risk that must be avoided at all costs.

In addition, the solution of improving the quality of Asian air must be put into practice and allows of no delay; we should address the issue of Asian air pollution immediately by focusing on technology, policy and economic measures. To begin with, people should tap new energy sources instead of using coal as the basic power source in developing countries in the Pacific region. Even though there is some renewable and recyclable source such as natural gas has been used in some ways, we still need to put more new energy into service. Second, developing new energy is not enough. It will be more effective if technology is incorporated into policy. Every government should be dedicated to futher the event of reducing air pollution. Also, enabling closer international cooperation is necessary, and governments should have conversations regularly. Moreover, it’s true that the economic growth rate is important, especially for developing countries; however, environmental protections cannot be ignored at the same time. The sustainable development will be the trend in society; if the occasion arises, it must sacrifice some economic advantages in order to ensure environmental benefit. All of the environment, technology, policy and economic measure tie together. Trying to improve the situation of Asian air pollution, we can put emphasis on technology.

In conclusion, the first step to solve the problem of Asian air pollution is to analyze the causes, effects, and solutions of the significant environmental problem. First, the growing population, the increasing vehicles in use, and the industrial energy structure are the three main criminals of the Asian air pollution. Futhermore, this environmental pollution can influence both the natural system and human life and human activity. Finally, even though this problem is serious, we still can improve the situation by connecting environment with technology, policy and economic measure. There are more than a million people who died because of respiratory diseases and other disease related to air pollution every year; there are more and more icebergs disappearing in the South Pole and the North Pole; there are many endangered species that cannot be saved in time because of the change of global climate. If we are not fully aware of the gravity of the situation of Asian air pollution, it’s a certain destruction. It will take everybody’s effort to improve to improve the situation of air pollution.

Reference:
Hotz, R. (2007, March 6). The World; Asian air pollution affects our weather; Scientists report more clouds, stronger storms in the Pacific region. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved May 31,2007, from LexisNexis.