Air Pollution In China Essay
Over the past month I have been in China, it has been impossible for me to go outside without having a respirator attached to my face. Why? Because of the extreme air pollution that blankets most of China. Because of China's air pollution that has been a constant problem over the past few decades and has been making living in China “uncomfortable”. The air pollution has several effects including declining public health and up to 1.6 million deaths per year. That is about 4383 deaths per day, 1.4 times the number of casualties on 9/11. The reasons for death from air pollution includes lung cancer and breathing difficulties The pollution has been caused from coal burning, tailpipe exhaust, factory pollution, dust, aerosols and waste incineration
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Over the past two decades, China's economy has boomed, surpassing Japan and not far behind the United States. Although, millions of Chinese were left in the dust as a result. The uneven distribution of wealth is creating many social and economic problems. An academic report in 2014 stated that the top one percent of the chinese population has one third of China's overall wealth. The number of people with low salaries is growing and is reducing the economy's independence for trade. The lowest 25 percent have only one percent of the country's wealth. And the gap between the rich and the poor is still widening. As of late 2014, 70 million people live below the poverty line which was set at 467USD (2800 yuan). People above that line will also have to take their of the elderly as more and more elder people are becoming present in China. China's one child policy is responsible for this, established in 1979 in an attempt to control China's booming population. However, in 2015 China removed this policy to ease the economy, and prevent labor shortages from an aging population This also allowed couples to have more than one child. The elder population is growing significantly at about 10 percent of China's
Over the past two decades, China's economy has boomed, surpassing Japan and not far behind the United States. Although, millions of Chinese were left in the dust as a result. The uneven distribution of wealth is creating many social and economic problems. An academic report in 2014 stated that the top one percent of the chinese population has one third of China's overall wealth. The number of people with low salaries is growing and is reducing the economy's independence for trade. The lowest 25 percent have only one percent of the country's wealth. And the gap between the rich and the poor is still widening. As of late 2014, 70 million people live below the poverty line which was set at 467USD (2800 yuan). People above that line will also have to take their of the elderly as more and more elder people are becoming present in China. China's one child policy is responsible for this, established in 1979 in an attempt to control China's booming population. However, in 2015 China removed this policy to ease the economy, and prevent labor shortages from an aging population This also allowed couples to have more than one child. The elder population is growing significantly at about 10 percent of China's