Sunday, May 2, 2010

Background

China is suffering from large emissions of pollution from factories and from everyday people. The use of coal in china is very popular it is one of the main sources of energy in China. It also happpens to be the main source of pollution in China also.

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Location




the pollution of china is mostly common in the north part of china around the Beijing area






Development

In October 26 2007 Beijing was covered in smog so bad that the outside Olympic events were endanger of being post pounded.

Over time emissions in china have remained relatively level since the 1980's. There is still heavily coal burning and inadequate sulfur control.

*2005: Fears over Chinese water supply

*2007: China building more power plants

*2007: Beijing trials traffic curbing

Impact

PEOPLE:All of this pollution in china has caused people to have trouble breathing and all kinds of lung problems. Pollution alone kills 656000 people annually.

ENVIRONMENT:The smog that accumulates over china causes acid rain to fall the pants of china are in danger by this absence of sun caused by the smog.

ECONOMICS:The more factories that the economy needs to stay stable the more pollution it causes so the economy isn't helping the environment much.

GOVERNMENT:

THREE MAJOR CONCERNS:
1. POLLUTION WILL BECOME TO OVERWHELLMING

2. IT MAY BECOME TO HARD TO LIVE IN CHINA

3.IT MAY START TO AFFECT THE ECONOMY

Future

Air pollution is always going to be around and it is always going to do the same thing it is doing now. Cause people to have diseases, change of climate and death. To try to make this problem better, scientist have studied people and there pollution and out of they're work came the integrated gasification combined cycle machine.

The machine that is hoped to be reducing coal emissions is the, integrated gasification combined cycle, this machine turns coal to gas then takes the pollution and turns it into reusable gas.



http://http://www.iea-coal.org/site/ieacoal_old/clean-coal-technologies-pages/clean-coal-technologies-integrated-gasification-combined-cycle-igcc??

Big Picture


The Air Pollution of china affects it's Human and Physical geography. It affects the Human geography with the smog that it create over the cities. The smog makes it hard to see, breathe and transport goods and people. As for the Physical, all the pollution puts the ecosystems out-of-whack. When the pollution causes a smog to form then the smog block the sun and therefore stuns the growth of the plants.

My topic of Air Pollution In China best fits with the theme Human-Environment interaction; the people of china are the people burning way to much coal at one time. China's people are over polluting there country so much it is becoming hard to live there.

This topic is starting to become very popular. This problem isn't only in china it is a big problem in Mexico also there pollution is becoming over whelming, its not only china. though china has the most pollution out put right now its not the only big polluter.