Smog

A Fat Girl’s Diary July, 27 I just wanted to close my eyes and just stand under the hot shower, while the water sooth my swollen body -but I was so afraid of falling down and being stuck in the tub. My mother needed the neighbor’s help to get me out the last time. I got out of the shower and looked at the mirror. Just looking at myself, looking at my reflection, I don’t know who was staring back at me. Am I visible? I see my brown dimple skin, the blubber that hangs around my belly, I see…

us to live on. This will eliminate the possibility for the human race to become extinct. Daniel Hohler claims, that “ We need somewhere to put all these people, or we all might end up living in skyscrapers, see all animal’s habitats destroyed, and smog up the air beyond what is breathable” (Planet Save). This would be a horrible world to live in, and not the kind of place anyone would want to live in. This a big problem in the world, but people refuse to focus on the problem, and try to fix it.…

There are two main viewpoints on any environmental issue, the modernist perspective and the neo-traditionalist perspective. The two perspectives greatly contrast each other, as they take completely opposite sides of the argument in any environmental issue. This was represented in the lecture by Professor Mark Boyer about Considering Environmental Values. For the purpose of this essay, I will specifically be talking about the issue of Climate change, and how both perspectives view this…

Imagine walking threw a big city like New York in the middle of the afternoon. You look up and see midnight black smog that is covering the city. How would you feel not being able to see any rays of sunlight? Well, the fact that global warming has been happening for decades isn’t something new. In fact, in some cities around the word air pollution is so bad that most people are unable to walk around without an air pollution mask. Yet with the public focus in the modern world on pollution, ways…

With the growing population in the past years comes an increase in urbanization and industrialization, thus increasing the number of buildings in urban areas and consequently this means an overall rise in energy usage by the people. The increase in population and amount of people moving into urban areas is occurring at an alarming rate, but this doesn’t come as a surprise. Ever since 1950 this has been occurring. From 1950 to 1986 there was an increase from 600 million to 2 billion people…

Addressing Global Warming Since the dawn of mankind, the Earth has been an everlasting landscape for the potential of future endeavors. Eventually, humanity found itself dominating over the majority of the planet and its inhabitants, which resulted in some arrogance. While humans were able to send a man to the Moon, they were unable to understand the planetary functions of their own planet until recent decades. In a sort of ironic twist, the dominating predator of the Earth now has to contend…

Our planet would be too cold to support life if not for a natural process called the greenhouse effect. The sun sends solar radiation toward the Earth’s surface. Of which, 70% is initially absorbed by the Earth’s surface. However, as the earth warms, some of this absorbed energy is reflected back toward space as infrared radiation. This infrared radiation would be lost into space except for the fact that there exist greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and water vapor in the atmosphere that…

of the children and the elderly. In 2014, seventy percent of the city in China was covered with haze. Jing Chai, engaged in journalism, who have been made great achievement in publication of articles. She has released a self-funded documentary about smog, inspired by her sick daughter. The speech got very good results, because of the speech, a majority of people attach importance to the environment. As Jing Chai said, people don't complain about these truck drivers, because they are the one of…

He had warned her about the book. Now it was too late. “She should have listened” he chanted to himself in an attempt to believe that this was not his fault. That there was absolutely nothing he could have done. He thought that if he kept saying it, then he would soon believe it. Here’s the thing that no one remembers, you have to linger on drowning in your own guilt if you ever stop to even take a breath. It will come upon you like a dark shadow that follows you wherever you go in case you ever…

my race even more. I hated the stereotypes, I disliked going to Chinese school, I despised the Chinese storytelling competitions my mom made me enter, and I also simply hated China. When I visited China in 2011, I complained nonstop about the heavy smog, the disgusting squat toilets, and the rude people who bump into you without even saying…