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Man made trouble, an European opinionFrom: wendy
Subject: Philosophy
Date/Time 2009-04-02 06:25:04
Remote IP: 84.197.171.229
MessageI have not read the article at all because I don't feel like reading right now, so no comments on the content either.
Just sharing the day to day reality in my tiny country on the European continent.
Being very happy the sun is finally shining for a couple of days, with the sun the trouble with Particulate Matter will appear too. Whole of Europe and especially the big cities and unfortunately also the whole region I live in is covered with the stuff for months and months. In summer when there is little to no wind we are not allowed to drive cars more than 60km/hour, to minimalize the pollution.
Along the roads there are signs everywhere saying SMOG 60.
In 80 big cities in Europe they have a green zone, which means you are not allowed to drive your car in the city between 6.30am and 6.30 pm, if you do, you have to pay for it. That way they try to reduce the pollution by cars.
Some cities like Athens you can drive depending on your drivers plate. Of course smart asses buy two cars with different numbers so they can drive cars on both days.
Just to say it are humans though who are driving those cars, using the factories for their supplies and goods...
And no matter breathing Particulate Matter is deadly, the smaller the particals the deadlier, the smallest ones come from cars. In Europe a part of the cars and especially all the trucks run on 'diesel', which are the worst pollutors and have the smallest particals.
Clean cars are some sollution and in summer I have a device in my house that captures the particals but like for my middle daughter being in hot weather and being physical outside, needing more oxygen, she has trouble to breath and the more ozon in the air the more difficult she can breath, with chestpain and nausea.
On bad (polluted) hot days it is better for her to stay inside the house and not be physical too much.
Also the development of lungs of children are effected by this sort of pollution, resulting in allergies and astma, there is a real explosion of children and young people having allergies, eczema and astma.
So I don't need to look at China to know that we are in trouble, man made trouble.
Even in Western Europe where people are more aware, politicians are inventing all sort of rules and laws to stop the pollution, we can not close the borders above our heads, we can not stop the winds of blowing over the mountains and sees, that became painfully clear when in Chernobyl (USSR) the nuclear reactor exploded, driving the outfall over Europe where we were no longer allowed to eat our self grown vegetables from the garden.
Living more closely together in Europe I guess we are more painfully aware of the effects we have on each other and are more committed to work together to do something about it.
The more outer space countries seem to have the less they believe there is a man made problem.
My day to day simple live tells me that we either work together and change for the better or we stay selfish and narrow minded and create hell on earth for all of us.
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