The
term which represents a COST which many people are too busy “playing ostrich”
to recognise; can be
traced all the way back to 1990. Smog causes spread of “Beijing Cough”. Many people
claim that thy just can never understand just why so many Chinese people spit
on the streets. Why it is that they have no regard for public hygiene? Why on
earth do they all have that nasty goo in their lungs to cough up all the time anyway?
Don’t you only get that when you’re really sick? Are peoples from the Middle East,
Asia and China just always sick?
No,
most often, it is all the nasty pollution. Pollution that we in Canada also breath
in on a daily basis but not to so large a degree; presenting itself: as a loud
hawk, (similar to what we often hear from native Canadians suffering from COPD)
that we can hear 6 stories up in our apartments; and as those big dirty globs
of nasty yellow goo that you have to dance around; like traversing through a,
phlegmy, mine field.
As
stated. Beijing cough” is not exactly a unique condition. Residents of other
heavily polluted cities across Europe AND across Central and North America also
experience similar symptoms.
There’s
absolutely no denying that high levels of air pollution are contributing to the
originally United Kingdom” now the more politically favourable (to Canadian
Politicians.) “Beijing Cough” High concentrations of PM 2.5 cause long-term
damage to the respiratory system and other internal organs (similar to the
condition that coal miners get from breathing coal dust.
In
2000, approximately 80,000 people died due to causes related to air pollution,
while 600 million people were suffering shorter life expectancies. Roughly 66%
of these people were living in developing countries in Asia.
On
the economic front, it’s been estimated that China suffered economic losses of
approximately 233.4 billion. In 2007, air pollution caused an economic loss
equivalent to 3.8% of the country’s total GDP.~~Al (Alex-Alexander) D. Girvan
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