The Effects Of Air Pollution On Hong Kong - 1361 Words

Air pollution is a phenomenon that there are harmful materials in the earth’s atmosphere. Worldwide attention has been focused on air pollution in rapidly urbanizing cities since the Kyoto Protocol of year in 1997. Hong Kong air pollution is one of the most serious over the world. Air pollution will bring a lot of influence such as health and economic problem. There are more than 7 million population in Hong Kong and this increase the requirement from different area such as transportation which will worsen the air pollution. According to the statistic from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology(2014), there are more than 6, 800, 000 family doctor visits each year for respiratory problems which are caused by air pollution. The†¦show more content†¦It means they should improve their emissions equipment and it will increase the costs. On the other hand, developing countries just need to take responsibility for the problem. It has increase the inequality. Thatâ₠¬â„¢s why it is hard to solve it. The first problem that is caused by the air pollution is about health problems. According to a text from McGranachan (2012), there is a pollutant called particulate matter but also named black smoke which is discharged by burning the fossil fuels. A classic example of the fuel is coal. It is used as fuel for generate electricity in Hong Kong. This pollutant will affect our trachea or the respiratory such as change in lung capacity or reactivity to Broncho- active challenges. According to the report (Chan, 2009), there are 1,600 people died from pneumonia or lung diseases each year. Also, the pollutants will pollute the crop and it will affect our health. More serious problems are lung cancer and pulmonary hemorrhage. Furthermore, some of the pollutants will include the carcinogen which will effect on cancer rates. There are the statistics that done by the HealthyHK, Department of Health (2013) which are about the death rate due to the lung cancer. There are 3,867 people died from lu ng cancer and it is accounting for 28.5% of all cancer deaths in 2013. These are the cases in point to proof how serious of air pollution in Hong Kong. Agriculture is not the main economy in Hong Kong but there are still some farmers in the