Those gases from engines
Those smoke from factories
are causing our Mother Earth to be down with asthma!
Spare a knowledge,
Spare a thought
Air talk!
Shocking Facts!
1. 70,000 premature deaths in the U.S. each year are tied to air pollution.
2. The USA alone releases one quarter of the world’s carbon dioxide emissions. From 1990 to 2002, U.S. CO2 emissions increased 95 percent from 1960 levels.
3. According to the World Health Organization, if you are one of the 18 million residents of Cairo: Breathing daily air pollution is like smoking 20 cigarettes a day
4. The World Bank reported in 2002 that pollution causes 2.42 billion dollars worth of damage to the Egyptian environment annually
5. According to Carnegie Institution’s Department of Global Ecology, carbon dioxide (a greenhouse gas) is rising at an alarming rate. During the 1990s, carbon dioxide emissions increased approximately 1.3% each year. But since 2000, the rate has increased to 3.3% per year, with an estimated annual global CO2 emissions increase of 35% from 1990 to 2006.
Your remained in Refesnica and shared your views with the governments of different countries on the 1974th World Environment Conference.
You are amazed by the advanced technology by the time 4529 and are asked by the organisation to present and share the different measures the different countries were exercising by year 2009.
You went back to year 2009 and managed to find these bits and pieces of strapped information from your collection when you were working as a environmentalist:
"Fit catalytic converters to cars; 95% from exhaust gases; nitrogen oxides; metal catalyst;