Why Air Quality In The U.S. Is So Bad
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- Air pollution still remains one of the key environmental issues in the United States. Although it has seen incredible improvement since the 1970s, more than 4 in 10 Americans are still estimated to live in counties with poor air quality. Every year, air pollution kills more than 6 million people worldwide from heart attacks, stroke and diabetes. So just how clean is the air we breathe in the U.S.?
More more than 135 million Americans live with polluted air, placing their health and lives at risk, according to an American Lung Association report published Wednesday.
“It is impacting you, whether you know it or not,” said Becki Baker, an asthma patient. “People don’t realize that over time, this is cumulative.”
Air pollution remains one of the key environmental issues in the United States. Although it has seen incredible improvement since the 1970s thanks to the Environmental Protection Agency and the Clean Air Act, the number of Americans exposed to poor air quality has consistently stayed over 125 million since 2013.
“Generally, there are two local air pollutants that the U.S., EPA, and other researchers tend to focus on,” explained Nicholas Muller, associate professor of economics, engineering, and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University. “Those are fine particulate matter and tropospheric or ground-level ozone.”
Particle matter pollution refers to tiny pieces of solids or liquids in the air that consist of contaminants like dust, dirt soot and smoke. Nearly 21 million people in the U.S. are estimated to live in counties with unhealthy levels of particle pollution year-round, Wednesday’s report said.
“It comes very small, much smaller than a human hair,” American Lung Association national senior vice president of advocacy Paul Billings said. “You can often see them when you look at a sunset and you see all of that haze in the evening.”
Ground-level ozone pollutants, meanwhile, are often better known by another name: smog. This is created when pollutants from cars, power plants, and other known sources chemically react in the air under sunlight. More than 123 million people in the U.S. are thought to live in counties with bad ozone pollution, with just over 28 million of them being children and 18.2 million aged 65 or older, the report said.
“It’s likened to a sunburn of the lung because it irritates the respiratory tract,” Billings said.
The report also found that communities and people of color are disproportionately affected by poor air quality. People of color are 3 times as likely to live in the most polluted places.
“And that’s actually not surprising,” Yale University environmental justice professor Gerald Torres said. “The data has indicated that before Covid-19 but what Covid-19 did was highlight that.”
Poor air quality is also costing the U.S. roughly $617 billion in damages every year, according to the World Economic Forum. Additionally, the EPA estimates the U.S. spends about $65 billion every year to clean the air.
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Why Clean Air Is So Expensive In The U.S.
Here's why clean air is so expensive, it is because dirty air is so CHEAP!
Pretty much
Yup
Zinger!!!
All that needed to be said.
@ Test User
Or it could be all the stupid rules and regulations in the USA. In many ways it would be cheaper to modernize our power plants and refineries which are very old. We have clean coal technology and better tech for other plants especially chemical. Of course big brother would rather demonize industry and drive them out of our country then provide solutions.
in America: why clean air is expensive?
in India: why normal air is expensive?
😓
China: what is clear air?
Come to Madhya Pradesh you will get so much clean air without paying any money
Its always bad in India and other places, when its bad where I live I always pray for them and loose my mind at how people can still think that dry cough and head aches and elevated temperatures are a "mutant covid 19 strain" of a virus but its not even a bug its SO2 and many many other things basically everything in the periodic table from smog fire smoke victems fire fighters people living in bad smog etc including burn victems hard to get burned badly in unintentional fire situation with out breathing in too much smoke aswell. The kids in India they all have stuff in their lungs like smokers like these "patches" on peoples lungs they called "covid 19" the world believes it dishonoring the real front liners of modern world that is fire fighters keeping this ship from sinking for as long as possible and dishonering kids dying from air pollution where it already hits deadly levels pre global fire era it was still bad pollution from everything in those same places now China wan't to cut off the water and flood them with a mega dam that should never be built that big ever anywhere. India is getting sacked from all directions :( prayers for India. Same for America for Americans who already lived in poverty and those wealthy Indians arriving trying to escape the stink our nations of US and Canada are in political turmoil with other powers of the world and within and other nations are too busy to help as well. Prayers for the world, prayers for rain it makes the air easier to breath and will end this madness
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The enormous cost of air pollution and climate change clearly show that it would be one of the best investments ever to transition to clean energy generation and EVs. 3% of GDP is an enormous cost.
True
I lived in Fresno, CA and the air was AWFUL! When checking the weather app, there would always be a warning that it’s dangerous to be outside for people with respiratory diseases 😐
Then when I visited LA, I couldn’t believe people actually live in that polluted sh”thole. It’s definitely a place where you get cancer from all that toxic waste floating in the air.
Nothing compared to India
@@Ejaz100 ah yes, where dead bodies float along the same river you extract water to imbibe.
@@Fishgod1216 r.i.p to those poor souls
@@Ejaz100 no it is a fact bro
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The solution for capturing carbon was discovered in my lab and candle shop over 40 years ago. I knew back then that this was going to come to this day. I had to search for the answer and did. The heat loss from a smokestack can be forced or harnessed into a large tank containing hot liquid microcrystalline petroleum wax. The heat will keep the wax in a molten state which facilitate the carbon to be absorbed when combined with the wax. Carbon when mixed with wax reacts like a dye. The wax-carbon amalgamation will result in a black wax solution thereby making it impossible for the carbon to escape into the environment while in a liquid state. Other toxic particles are also captured in the wax settling at the bottom of the tank as a sludge. A sludge release valve is located at the bottom of the tank. After the sludge is removed more wax is replaced in the tank working something like a toilet. The sludge becomes a byproduct that can be used as an additive to asphalt for roads or used for cocooning nuclear waste materials for long-term safe burial. The entropy of the Earth has been increasing at a startling rate since the beginning of the industrial revolution caused mainly by the carbon that is released into the atmosphere. Government scientists have failed to stop and prevent carbon pollution from entering the environment. This problem can only worsen until a solution is found before this problem becomes irreversible. It has been discovered that formulated wax has been shown to be the only answer to this problem.
PREVENTING SPREADING RADIATION:
This formulated wax will also help prevent the spread of radiation such as preventing the escape of Plutonium dust particles from nuclear reactors or from structures or buildings housing radioactive materials. In 1994 This method was successfully demonstrated on the Sarcophagus of Chernobyl's blown-out reactor # 4 that was leaking Plutonium dust particles through open seems. In 1995 formulated wax tape was used to cocoon radioactive metal that had spat out of the reactor at the time of the explosion for safe long-term burial. In 1993 a wax membrane method was used in the yard of an abandoned house about five miles from Chernobyl to demonstrate how to reclaim radioactive contaminated territories for re-cultivation.
I have been researching wax for solving mankind created environmental problems since 1969. As I aged, I discovered many other uses for wax such as making candles or replicas of people's hands. This led to coating the hand castings with latex rubber. After the latex had cured, I inserted latex rubber tubing a quarter of an inch tubing in the tips of each finger that was sealed with the latex. After the latex had cured, I was able to pull the end of the tubing that caused the fingers to contract. By pulling the ends of all five tubs the hand would close or grip and was able to pick up things such as a pencil or jelly beans just like a normal hand would do. The end result would act like a normal hand. I was able to color the hand to match the color tone of the hand that I replicated. The end result was a prosthesis hand. Through the years I have discovered many other uses of formulated wax for solving environmental problems: Here is a list of confirmed uses since 1969.
OTHER USES FOR SOLVING POLLUTION PROBLEMS USING WAX:
• Remove oil spills from dry or wet sand, soil, water, ice This method was demonstrated for the Canadian government in 1974 to remove oil from a beach on Passage Island. This method was demonstrated to the US Coast Guard on two occasions, one in Hawaii and the other in the state of Texas demonstrated to the Canadian Coast Guard on two occasions. Oil can be removed from beach sand as though it was a giant carpet More demos were shown to the Canadian press on three occasions.
• Preventing radiation leaking from reactors, buildings, and storage facilities. This method was used to prevent Plutonium dust particles from escaping into the environment from open cracks and seams on the Sarcophagus of Chernobyl's blown out reactor # 4 in 1994
• Cocooning asbestos coated pipes wiring for safe removable This was demonstrated in the basement of an apt building that has 319 feet of loose asbestos
• Cocooning radioactive waste for a long term safe burial. This method was demonstrated in Chernobyl by removing a 4” x 5 ‘ rusting metal tubing that was buried and coating half the tubing with a special microcrystalline wax and then re buried.
• Removing radioactive contaminated hot spots from soil surfaces approx. 4 feet square in Chernobyl in 1995
• Preventing uranium mine tailing particles from becoming airborne in 1987 by laying a wax membrane on the mine tailing surface in Elliot Lake Ontario.
• Preventing radon gas from entering into homes or buildings demonstrated on three homes having very high Radon levels where 95% of the Radon was blocked.
• Preventing crushed coal dust particles from escaping moving open rail car trains was demonstrated in 1975 by spraying hot microcrystalline wax on the exposed coal surface to prevent the coal particles from becoming airborne while the train was in motion.
• Preventing fly or bottom ash pile dust particles from becoming airborne Removing bunker oil, diesel fuel, gasoline transformer oil demonstrated for Ontario Hydro in Kinston Ontario in 1991
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I live in Las Vegas.
The poorer people live in East Las Vegas and North Las Vegas.
The ground elevation is lower in those areas, so polluted air does collect more frequently in those areas.
Any rich area is at higher elevation where the air is cleaner.
th-cam.com/video/v1C_IOvjv8g/w-d-xo.html.
Being you live in Vegas the air quality is not great being you live in a desert. Air quality only good after it rains which is not much.This I know as I lived in the high desert.
Rich people are smart.
Its nothing compared to India...
It's also where the views are. U.S. air is much cleaner than China or India, by a LONG SHOT. That said, the true crux of this issue is carbon emissions. Something that we are thankfully innovating out of. Perhaps not quickly enough.
Because oil industry and corporations don't like clean air.
.....lmao....producing 1 EV car battery is the equivalent of a gas engines pollution for 3 years......to manufacture 1 EV battery, they have to dig up, 500,000 pounds of earth....doing that produces a ton of pollution....
Health is wealth. Air quality is important. Yes industrialization and urbanization is good, but there must be a respect and balance for the nature around us. Take Dr. Seuss's The Lorax for example.
Regular viewer from Germany - I just love all of your documentaries!
Guten tag!
@Vanessa Oelmann You speak German and English?
@@SuperBatman-jr6rp ...most Germans speak English?
@@vanessaoelmann4211 Like well? Do you learn English in schools?
@@organizedchaos4559 yes we do...I also learned French and Spanish in school. It’s normal for German schools to teach several languages, especially global languages like English and Spanish
air quality in the US has actually improved exponentially ever since the clean air act in 1970
We are literally top 10 in air quality. Comcast is just a typical America hating company.
@Simp Master69 did you not watch the video?
I am happy to tell you the results of the innovation of the smoke filter machine posted on TH-cam th-cam.com/video/PXVU6SabJDE/w-d-xo.html, maybe this innovation can provide a solution to the problem of the need for clean air in the room.
Stop using facts lol. Ignorant people hate that haha
We live in a crazy world where people buy bottled air smh
Spaceballs
I don't buy bottled air but I do buy bottled co2 being I have a sodastream unit. LOL
It’s thneedville, it’s a brand new dawnnn awn awn! 🎶🎶
India could do with some “bottled air” right now.
Again..... I see you in every comment section on TH-cam. Go. Out. Side. Dude.
Come over to Dhaka, Bangladesh. You'll definitely come to know what polluted air is.
Saying hi from India.
We have even more polluted air than you.
As someone that lived in South Korea for a extended period of time I know poluted air well due to the polution that came from China.
@Md Safikur Rahman no, I'm from Dhaka, Bangladesh.
@@neeljavia2965 I do understand, but, the thing is, at present, our government is slightly going behind, when coming to pollution factors. Specifically in our capital city.
@@joydeepsharma1 True.
come to delhi😶 new york will seem like mountains
Absolutely correct!
Air Conditioners for the Heat, Water Purifiers for cooking and drinking are now a must. Very soon, houses are going to be air sealed to combat pollutants and air purifiers are going to become a staple device in every house.
Man, what are we becoming? 🤦♂️
@@venkate5hgunda indoors you have to worry about vocs.
The world must speed up going green and expand the use of renewable energy.
Because you have to drive your V8 suburban to take the 20 pound toddler to day care......politicians can pick on oil companies but not on the public over their unhealthy behavior
.....lmao....producing 1 EV car battery is the equivalent of a gas engines pollution for 3 years......to manufacture 1 EV battery, they have to dig up, 500,000 pounds of earth....doing that produces a ton of pollution....
visit korea once. you will rethink and appreciate the air quality in the us.
We went to SK when pollution hit the 500-600, we don’t know how good the air quality is in the east 🤣
That should not be your benchmark. Others are worst than us, so we are ok is not a good mentality.
@@daisuke910 I live where air quality is between 5-10, thats my benchmark.
Then we should make sure they get cleaner air too, saying we are better than others will not help us leave a better wirld for our children
Don't forget Bakersfield CA, the armpit of usa
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Air quality in US is not as bad as in South Asia LOL😂
Pollution keeps rising in the US. We must get together and enroll more willing people, to try & convince Govt. to take stricter measures to control pollution, Anyone can Email me for advise and discussion.
China: ......
China: largest adopter of EVs (cars, buses, and taxis), including the longest network of high speed rail in the world. The biggest producer and user of solar in the world. Operates 3 out of 10 of the world's largest hydroelectric dams. The third largest user of nuclear energy, accounting for around 10% of the world's nuclear energy output. The world's largest producer and user of geothermal energy. A ban on gasoline cars in major cities during certain days of the week.
Let's stay objective here. There's a lot of room for improvement, and there's a lot being done already.
@@Lucky8s also burns more coal than the whole world that generates most of the electricity used in those products you mentioned
@@Nickel-ns2ql
That's true. China has a huge population and it is one of the fastest growing economies in the world. It still needs coal plants to supply people with electricity for basic needs such as heating. Renewables isn't an overnight achievement. Governments set long-term plans (10, 20, 50 years sometimes) because of the cost and time it takes to shift. Few countries are as privileged as, let's say, Norway to have access to natural renewables like hydroelectricity.
@@Lucky8s not saying they're doing poorly, just saying they're not putting that much effort as you were mentioning since they could've spent a bit more money and opt for natural gas from Russia instead of coal which will be much more ecofriendly. Also, just giving context to your statement, and don't take this as an attack.
Well people won't care bcz companies have got a new propoganda
Of making air purifiers.
I grew up near a steel factory
When it closed my asthma went away
That’s crazy holy crap, I grew up around swampy and forest areas I didn’t realize how lucky not living in a big city is, as a kid I always saw cities as something that’s magical with all the buildings and lights around but now these days I’m more relieved for my health, I’m glad your asthma is gone
Truck stops have one of the worst air quality in the nation. You can see black tire particles floating on the asphalt all the time.
People in Shanghai used to buy bottled fresh Air. every time it's sold out priced 10x in black market.
LMAO I'm actually from Shanghai, it was a real thing couple years ago. Saw it on the news while I was there
If we get rid of cars we aren’t able to move fast
It’s because corporations make more money to pay a fine and make products by polluting more.
.....lmao....producing 1 EV car battery is the equivalent of a gas engines pollution for 3 years......to manufacture 1 EV battery, they have to dig up, 500,000 pounds of earth....doing that produces a ton of pollution....also, it's ALWAYS easy to say it's a corporations fault because of so called greed when you arnt in a position making that kind of money in that industry. What you claim will actually be credible if you worked in the oil/gas industry making tons of cash and you coming out and quitting and giving up all that money for the "better good" lol
Every airport in the USA should install Smog Towers. The air quality within 30 miles of any airport is very unhealthy.
If you check air quality websites, US cities have mostly clean air. Better than many countries worldwide.
We need to tax people for breathing to lower carbon emissions. Too many people wasting breaths
New law.. pay air tax for clean air.
The Lorax becoming reality.
I went to texas in 2014 and as soon as I got off the plane I had to have an inhaler. The "air" felt so thick that I literally couldn't breathe.... I only stayed for a few weeks there and I felt like if I stayed longer, I would have suffocated. The air in America alone felt poor generally and visiting from England it was a huge step backwards....
It's Cuz da Queen love clean Air m8.
@@nickm4974 that's supposed to be funny?
@@6fejmk yeah cuz u love da Queen
When supposedly free stuff becomes a luxury
Right 🤣😂😅👍💯
like drinking water bottles,new get rich quick business will be selling breathing air bottles filled with oxygen from mountains and rain forests
This already exists.
That’s dumb idea. They will make money cleaning our earth like they did destroying earth
@@capedcrusader4055 there is money in both. you can sell polluting products happily
@@NotThatGuy_YepThatGuy where?
@@auro1986 you could still sell products polluting earth but you would no longer have same respect from the public as they did before and no longer recieve subsidies from gov. World is more cognizant of the conservation and restoration
Its funny because people really disagree with this and say its fake
One luckily of poor people like me is about living in countryside. My location is far away from civilization but less pollution than cities.
Greed is only part of the problem. Complacency is the bigger one.
In Skopje 🇲🇰🇲🇰🇲🇰 and all big cities air has so much pollution
Short term quarterly gains are far more important than health, clean air and water and pollution free nature.
“Asthma Sufferer” seems like a bit of a clumsy term, no?
As one myself I use "Asthmatic". Not everyone knows what it means though
"Brawndo...It's got what plants crave."
Not Sure
It isn't. Well except for a few blighted cities.
The air quality in Central and West Texas used to be clear and clean, but now there are very few days the air quality is “good”, most days it starts out “moderate” goes into “unhealthy for sensitive groups”. Very often we have days that are “unhealthy”, and several times a year “very unhealthy” with NO NOTIFICATION OR WARNING TO THE PUBLIC. New Years Eve 2019 the air quality in most of South and Central Texas was “Hazardous” and no warnings were issued.
This is a real crisis and the government at all levels is complicit in a failure to warn and inform the public of the dangers. Local news stations make light, pithy announcements that sound like a reminder to put on sunscreen, “We have some air quality issues out there today so if your sensitive you might want to take precautions.” What the hell does that even mean?
When I inquired of a federal government agency as to the cause of the “Hazardous” air quality on 1-1-2019 the response was that it was “probably some new coal fired power plants in Mexico”, but they were not sure. There is what should be considered criminal level negligence going on and it’s being glossed over by those responsible for overseeing public health.
Over 100,000 people a year die (as stated in this video) from poor air quality, an untold millions of others negatively impacted, and there is no sense of urgency to clean up the air quality.
Indifferent politicians who only cater to their corporate sponsors, and pretend to care about whatever the crisis of the month is for fund raising purposes, are culpable in every death from poor air quality. Even so-called progressives have never mentioned NATION-WIDE BAD AIR QUALITY as anything that needs to be addressed. Deadbeat bureaucrats who live in CYA mode have no incentive to do anything about the problem.
What good is a healthy economy if there is no healthy air?
Are you near Midland/Odessa? There has been a massive increase in oil & gas drilling in that area over the past decade. That could certainly contribute to poor air quality.
the problem with the damage approach is that the model and economic cost is not aggressive enough
Air quality in the US is overall good. China , India and other places are absolutely filthy by comparison. But certain types of weather, especially in summer, can cause mild-moderately temporary "alerts" in various locations across the country. Most of the time air quality, even places like Los Angeles, Houston, NYC, etc., in fine. Much better than the air you typically breath indoors, inside a car with windows rolled up, etc.
While paddling the 1000 mile length of the Ohio river I noticed that there is a powerplant(s) every 30-35 miles with most of them coal fired. It will be a big improvement when all these plants are replaced with green energy sources. Fossil fuels have gotten a free ride because the costs to the environment and human health are NOT accounted for. If these external costs are considered, then green energy is very economical indeed.
I live in Ohio and it always struck me that the Ohio River could be a scenic tourist attraction if it wasn’t for all the coal fired power plants along the banks. Fortunately many of them have closed over the past few years, but there are still too many.
Well not sure about the data but overall air quality has improved so much from the 1980s. Just wish so called green jobs paid more. I guess it’s ok we’ll just move more production off shore so big companies can pretend to be net zero.
We need to move production and manufacturing back to the US and do it in a clean and environmentally friendly way. That’s what we need to do. Offshoring sets us up for bottlenecks and holdups in delivery of goods as the Suez Canal blockage proved. Sure it’ll cost more, but everything is costing more in reaction to pandemic related production halts in other countries. And guess what? People are still buying goods. That tells you that we can bring manufacturing back to the US with competitive wages. The challenge will be doing it in a safer, eco friendly and profitable way. You can still offshore nonessential goods and resources, and maintain trade relationships.
@@flynnrider7185 what a wonderful idea just wish it would play out like that
Do you heard of PSC Nasal Filters which perform a filter to largely decrease the particle pollution by 10X, 100X, 500X based on the filter materials.
Do all the cities being burnt down to intimidate the nation contribute to poor air quality?
I would think do
BTW those that didn't die from the air pollution do get less work performance; cleaning the air pays for itself in economic worker potential !!
Big cities ALWAYS have bad air quality. Been like that since industrial revolution. I grew up in smaller cities that do not have bad air quality. Not all of US has bad air quality. Compare to China where its 100x worse. Tens of thousands of chinese die in a China a year because of pollution and China's lack of restrictions in air quality.
Pretty soon we're gonna sell fresh air in a bottle.
Pretty soon it's gonna be like that movie Total Recall.
I know how to fix it quick and easy but people won't be happy.....
Public good and the wellbeing of the environment must be valued above the greed of the people running industry. We need regulation and real oversight and enforcement. Just because Trump did the bidding of industrial concerns doesn't mean it was a good idea. Maybe we need to get together and lobby for the sake of our health and future.
privatise the profits, socialise the costs lkke pollution
Why is diesel not banned? Where are the affordable EVs? Where is the hydrogen highway? Why is roundup still being sprayed? Talk is cheap.
Didn’t roundup also mess up the ecosystem.
Oregon smells like manure because of dog $hit. Ticket dog owners inside city limits.
If you think air in the us is bad, then you need to get out more and see the world. The us has some of the cleanest air in the world.
And you will never get rid of it. Even with 100% renewables, there will still be pollution.
Maybe, but it would significantly decrease the number of deaths
@@fragile5408 And where's the proof?
@@saulgoodman2018 the proof of what? That less toxic emissions in ambient air from fossil fuel combustion leads to less human deaths? If that's what you mean then I encourage you to do even just a little bit of research, it's really not hard to find.
@@fragile5408 Lots of left wing propaganda out their.
@@saulgoodman2018 Maybe, but he's correct. You do realize that there's 350 million people in this country? That's a lot of cars, factories, and energy production. Just because you don't see it doesn't mean it's not poisoning you.
Where Is Greta Thunberg?
It seems as though the world is on the fast lane toward cleaning the car industry from polluting emissions. Everyone is rushing to create clean cars, whether battery or hydrogen powered engines, and bask in their cleanness.
But the green alibi hides behind it a dirty truth: Zero emission does not mean zero pollution. Mining rare Earth materials required for zero-emissions engines, building charging stations, and the complex logistics surrounding the “clean” industries will take a heavy toll on Earth. In the end, the only ones who will gain from the “clean revolution” are the tycoons who are selling it to us, and the government officials who placate them for their own reasons.
Where is Greta Thunberg these days? Like the rest of the pawns in the battle for wealth and power, the “climate knights” have sent her back to oblivion once they finished using her. It is all power games among giant corporations, but the environment and the climate are no one’s concern.
Even if we switch to wind energy or ocean-wave energy, I don’t believe that we will gain much. We will have to pay for it elsewhere.
For this reason, I think that the crux of the problem is not emissions, but our behavior toward nature and toward our fellow human beings. Here is where we can produce positive and lasting results. If we could communicate with one another positively, we could stop the madness of excessive development that manufactures unnecessary and harmful products.
If we could slow down a bit, we wouldn’t need to burn so much fuel in order to defeat competitors in a race for wealth that makes no one happy. Only if we realize that our happiness depends on the quality of our relationships, and not on the padding of our bank accounts, we will be able to pause a little, think, and rebuild our civilization in a way that contributes to nature, to humanity, and to each of us.
let me tell you a joke that you won't get
: fresh Air
Rumored to exist in a few still existing forests... Until the chainsaws fire up anyway.
China 🇨🇳 and India have entered the chat 💬.
Chinese can't enter because CCP ...
cause lorax, basically
This is the one topic that China can't fight against. They have it way worse. 🤣
But they are. That's one of the reasons they're pushing for electric vehicle sales and high speed rail, to cut down on emissions.
@@LouisSubearth US is also going for EV's and hyperloop
China has it much worse because they have got much manufacturing from America.
Are you serious?! China is literally the factory of the world, they pollute for everyone, the iphones, ipads, tvs, consoles...... are all made in China and then shipped to the US and around the world.
@@madsam0320 China is actually alot better than the US, you can just see the amount of renewable energy that China has already installed.
This is such a privileged problem to have that cities in Asia particularly india haven't even started thinking or debating about it. Btw usual AQI in india is 200.
India should focus on clean air and the sell the tech as products to other countries.
It will be a superior products compared to other countries due to the population density in India.
Those in the comments remarking, "Well, hey, our air is better than Asia's," would do well to look up Cancer Alley to appreciate how it became that way.
I’m sick every fall and when it rains a ton in Oregon that’s air quality
And I have asthma
To much pollen
Doesnt rain clean the air?
Rosa, I visited Seattle, WA, where it rained or drizzled almost every day. My allergies and asthma went crazy every day! Was there a week and I couldn't wait to go home!!
What about #AirPurifiers to solve problems.
People living in delhi : LOL
I live in the south I own 100 acres of lands I swim in the creek I coal roll daily My air is clean so its city sleeker problems
unfortunately, they still aren't teaching phonics in the south....being able to read and write must be a "sleeker" problem
The USA will never completely fix its air quality because the solution is reducing car dependence.
No, the solution is to migrate away from the big cities. In smaller cities, a much larger percentage of people depend on cars, yet the air is cleaner there.
Solution: More public transportation in dense areas, or less cars in cities. Which Ik can’t happen
@@ybergik everyone living in low density suburbia will only increase the total number of miles driven, increasing air pollution.
The pollution will be more dispersed, but on aggregate worse.
@@Racko. Yeah, especially not in the sunbelt. The non sunbelt cities like NY, Chicago, Seattle have good public transport infra, but LA, Atlanta will be a lot harder. And then Texas is so far off the deep end that they think that wanting good public transportation is equivalent to Communism
@@H7B2ify Houston actually has a very good public transportation system in the most densely of its areas, outside of metropolitan large cities across the US omit public transportation because of car ownership which ppl rather drive considering the places are designed specifically for cars, The same story is why LA transportation is almost nonexistent, Chicago, NY etc have the best due to their insane density which it makes A lot more sense there
This is inverse in India
Wait.....polluted places have lower land value and thus poorer people live there because that is all they can afford? Wow this is some incredible research and insight.
Air Quality in the US is so bad? Have you been to China, India, Vietnam, etc yet?
Multiple things can be bad at the same time. At the end of the day over 100k people die (unnecessarily) from air pollution in the US, that's inherently bad no matter how better or worse it is elsewhere.
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I was over here thinking we had good air
Me laughs in California
California has one of the highest air pollution currently LMAO
That's why Tesla EV Cars help us good Environments. Thank you
No it won't.
Making the car parts will still pollution.
In USA in the summer the air is pure in the suburban areas? those areas have a lot of vegetation.
Ughhhhh environmental racism??? Major eye roll. That isn't racism. Air pollution doesn't hate black people. Air pollution doesn't make judgements based on skin color. Please stop pushing such nonsense. Environmental racism isn't a thing; the fact that black people suffer more is because of poverty, not racism.
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Title: "Why Air Quality In The U.S. Is So Bad"
*10 seconds in: "Air quality in the U.S. is generally good but it could be better"
FYI, this "music" is awful.
EDIT: I'm talking about the awful background noise at around the 1 min mark.
Just checked Germany's air (currently here), Biloxi's, and Ohio's air quality. Both are good. I'm confused about this f***ing video
Nice video.
Air quality is bad in the US because we are still a car-centric country, and to make air fresh we need to reverse this long-standing nonsense and adapt to a transit-centric country
We're top 10 in air quality. Comcast is just trying to find another way to hate America as usual.
This will be reasoning to tax people to be forced to pay to keep the air clean within there cities. I can see some states going nearly bankrupt and making excuses why they are unable to keep the air clean in New York vs Florida. You will then see people leaving states to migrate to cleaner aired states. Sucks
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Wow forcing states to reduce Air Pollution and thussaving lives. How criminal
4:12 what is he listening for? He doesn't even have that thing on.
Most of cities in USA have AQI under 50. I have been living in patna, Bihar India. Never seen AQI below 200 in my life. What are you complaining about?
Le me suffering from 300aqi in india in up.
Imagine the air is so dirty you have to get it from a company in the future like bottled water.
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Imagine the air is so dirty you have to get it from a company in the future like bottled water. Wow, sounds terrifying.
Okay but is nobody gonna talk about China-
The smoke from smokestacks and the pollution from cars and other internal engine vehicles could be reduced 95% if we used alcohol based liquid fuel rather than fossil fuels. Also, the materials that create alcohol fuels include, garbage landfills, sewage, forest and agricultural wastes and even smoke stack emissions. The alcohol based fuel is already passed the EPA testing and their are companies who are looking for funding to build plants. Why isn't the public and government doing more to save the planet!?
Reporters are so obtuse. Housing is cheap around plants and often in poor conditions. So poor people buy them up. Its your choice to buy the house there and its been known for a very long time that plants pollute so its a conscious decision. Blaming racism is disingenuous and lazy.
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What about China and India ? USA is leading the way in clean air.
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Cleaner than China but their air comes here
No it doesn’t.
As a guy who has traveled all over the world our air quality in the US is fine. Go to China or India and then you can complain.