My Vision for America My vision for the future America is less air pollution. Air pollution needs to be reduced because it kills 7 million or more people a year globally, 80 percent of them from heart disease and stroke. Also, Air pollution destroys and damages 5 billion dollars’ worth a year of crops and trees. To add to that last point, people, on average can go 3 weeks without food, 3 days without water, but the average person can only go barely 3 minutes without air before severe brain damage and death. Finally, air pollution causes Global warming, which mainly comes from factories and vehicular pollution. Overall Air Pollution is horrible and needs to be reduced or eliminated. To Start, Air Pollution kills the environment such as trees, crops, wildlife, lakes and other bodies of water. Those pollutants can also harm fish and other aquatic life. As a matter of fact it kills more than 5 billion dollars’ worth of crops a year, over 1 million seabirds and 100,000 sea mammals are killed by pollution every year, and kills over 300,000 land mammals a year. Additionally, people breathe 2 gallons of air per minute which means around 3400 gallons of …show more content…
Air pollution causes 65% of the deaths in Asia, 25% deaths in India, and 527,000 deaths a year globally. Air Pollution causes people with Heart Diseases or Lung Diseases to be at higher risk for Asthma attacks, strokes, and cardiac arrest. In addition, Air Pollution in Beijing has causes a new disease called the “Beijing Cough,” in which affects over 500,000 people every year. Air Pollution is the world's largest single environmental health risk and accounts for every 1 out of 8 deaths involved with environmental health risks, and it is even listed in the “World’s Top 10 Killers” chart. Air Pollution causes millions of deaths to innocent people every year together we need to reduce