Smog In China: The Geographical Location Of The Country

Name
Instructor
Course
Date
Smog in China
Introduction
Environmental pollution is among the major concerns of the world. Air pollution is the worst and dangerous problem because of the negative effects it has on human health. Most of the available literature focus on the impact of air pollution on public health especially respiratory diseases that affect the people exposed to pollutants.
China is one of the most developed countries in the world. Many industries are emerging and thus making China’s industrial sector to skyrocket and with its construction of mega factories and amenities to facilitate the high growth rate. China is undergoing an industrial golden time currently. Its extraordinary economic achievement in the past two decades has helped more than half a million get out of poverty. However, the extraordinary achievements have been as a result of heavy industrial pollution (burning of coal and increase in the number of automobiles). Despite the high technological advancement and industrial growth, China has recorded very low and poor environment management. Level of pollution of air, soil and water is alarming. Studies have pointed out the problem of fog in the country is hitting a record level and it is suffering the worst air pollution in history.
The geographical location of the country also makes several environmental aspects to be at the extremes hence aiding in pollution. Temperature for instance can drop to very low temperatures during some part of the year. The mountainous landscape of China is also a major determinant of the weather hence making air pollution very intense during the warmer seasons. Seasons bring with them different type of weather and thus making the climate of China to oscillate between the extremes.
Smog which is a combination of two words “Smoke” and “fog” is an air pollutant. On the exposure to the free air, it can be very hazardous if it pollutes the environment. People who are exposed to smog are prone and vulnerable to many diseases which can sometimes even be fatal. China, is located away from the tropics and thus it is cold hence adversely and seriously affected by smog.
The smoke from the industries and the fog from the cold and wet air combine to form the smog. This smog is thus common in the most industrialized cities in China. Beijing is one of the cities where smog is really a problem where seeing the blue sky is limited in a period that is about one month a year where you can see the blue sky.
This despite posing a great danger to the health of human beings, the smog also spreads some communicable diseases. The effects and its controlling methods to curb it motivated the need of this research.
Background information
Smog is composed of fog and smoke, however, the smoke can be composed of dust, like Sulphur acid and its compounds, nitric acid nitrogen compounds, organic hydrocarbons and other organic and inorganic particles. Smog also make the atmosphere and the surrounding cloudy, blurred vision and lead to reduction of visibility to a few meters, which seriously affect the traffic as the drivers cannot see far. The word “smog” became a key word in 2013 in China because of appearing in a total of four smog ai...