AIR POLLUTION! IT STARTS WITH YOU!-Air pollution in NYC contributes to 6% of annual deaths. It also caused 1.2 million deaths in China.

-Pollution is turning rain into acid rain which contaminates our soil and living things such as plants that depend on clean rain.

-Diseases such as bronchitis, lung cancer and heart disease appears in people exposed to air pollution.

HOW CAN YOU HELP?!

- Conserve energy! Turn off appliances when they are not being used.

- Use public transportation when possible, ride a bike or walk.

- Avoid waiting in long drive-thru lines. Park the car and go in!

- Keep tires properly inflated and aligned.

Jean Carlos Rodriguez

Air Pollution! It starts with you!

References

Unites States environmental protection agency (2012), Ways to reduce air pollution. http://epa.gov/oaqps001/peg_caa/reduce.html

New York City environmental protection (2013), Air Pollution. http://www.nyc.gov/html/dep/html/air/index.shtml

The New York Times, Edward Wong (2013), Air pollution linked to 1.2 million premature deaths in China. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/02/world/asia/air-pollution-linked-to-1-2-million-deaths-in-china.html?_r=0

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