First i wanted to update on my recent health aspect. Now that the class is coming to an end i realized how important health can be and all the different aspects it plays in your life. In the last 3 days i have either biked or walked almost 4 miles, in doing so i feel so much better. I have been watching what i eat to ensure all the hard work doesn’t go to waste, but still treating myself to a cookie here and there.
When reading this chapter three things stuck out to me the most. Overpopulation, air pollution, and indoor air pollution. When we talk about overpopulation i never really heard many people talk about it till i watched this show on Netflix called the 100. on this show they lived in a space ark in space that was losing oxygen. Since being overpopulated they decided they had to float people into space to save up oxygen for them to survive. They even sent kids to the ground not knowing if it was survivable due to radioactive plants blowing up years ago. I think it is so crazy how scientists today are measuring what is called carrying capacity of the earth. Seeing just how much the earth can support our growing population.
When i thought of air pollution i think, cars, busses, and the factories. What i didn’t know was air pollution is made up of two different types, either anthropogenic which means human caused or naturally occurring. The amount of human caused pollution outweighs natural cause. In places like Beijing people live in a photochemical smog which is a haze produced by a photochemical reaction of sunlight and gasses. The normal AQI should be between 0-50 there it was 533 being hazardous.
Lastly i never knew air pollution and indoor pollution would be two separate things. Indoor air pollution is made up of many different things. such as asbestos, home heating, formaldehyde, radon, lead, mold, and environmental tobacco smoke. Before reading this chapter i had no idea what most of these were. This chapter taught me that there is more out there that we do to harm ourselves and the planet then natural causes themselves.
