Scientists
are now noticing that the population of large cities has a major
effect on the amount of air pollution with a catch, there are widely
varying amounts of pollution depending on the region of the city.
Though some cities are able to to function with less emissions the
sheer amount of people still adds up. Though more research is
required it is worthy to note the regional difference causing
different amounts of emission. “Energy usage patterns and
per capita emissions differ greatly between India and Europe,"
Lamsal said. "Despite large populations, Indian cities seem
cleaner in terms of NO2 pollution than the study's other regions."
This could be caused by many different things though. It's
hard to fix something like this easily because sadly people translate
to air pollution. When they burn fossil fuels the NO2 is the
response. It's only dangerous if breathed in high quantities but
within such a tight area as most cities are it can be a real problem
which is why the amount of NO2 is used as a proxy for urban air
quality. The only way to lower it is to stop burning fossil fuels but
our dependence on oil and coal are just to great to stop all
together. Personally I believe that cities are constantly trying to
fight all types of pollution but like every other city program it is
hard to get funding like that. I believe that if people work together
than a lot of the pollution problems we have today can be stopped but
like it was said by Professor Barnhardt in The
Day The Earth Stood Still
“But it's only on the brink that people find the will to change.”
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