air pollution
Flat 212 Lucky Mansions
123 Cheung Sha Wan Road
Kowloon
3 December 2010
The Administrative officer
Environmental Protection Department
33/F-34/F
Revenue Tower
5 Gloucester Road
Wan Chai
Dear Sir/Madam,
I am writing to inform you of my dissatisfactory with the poor air quality long existing in Hong Kong.
Fuelled by the pollutants from power plants and vehicles, and made worse by the regional pollution, Hong Kong in most of the days seems wrapped in a grey shroud to a point that, you cannot make out from the Central waterfront the buildings on the other side. Urban area is routinely attacked by haze and people have nothing to do but grudgingly live with dust they will never get rid of. The situation becomes so severe that everyone couldn’t turn a deaf ear to it. The effects caused by air pollution are no longer something negligible. Research collaborately done by three universities in Hong Kong estimates that the pollution is costing Hong Kong about HK$21.2 billion a year in hospital admissions. In addition, Studies by local public health experts also found that these roadside pollution levels are responsible for 90,000 hospital admissions and 2,800 premature deaths annually.
We can come to conclusion with the above data that poor air quality not only aggravates the authorities’ burden in medical expenditure but more importantly, the huge lost in productivity.
Further ahead, pollution is driving away business and hurting Hong Kong's global competitiveness. There have been enough warnings from the head of the stock market that pollution was scaring investors away. It is said that the air quality in Hong Kong is now regularly so poor that its “long-term competitiveness is in some doubt”. Tourism, on the other side, has also been affected in the same way. Pollution is dramatically harming both the health of Hong Kong citizens and its economy, It further cripple its ability to attract skilled foreign labours.
The executing so-called “tailor-made”
123 Cheung Sha Wan Road
Kowloon
3 December 2010
The Administrative officer
Environmental Protection Department
33/F-34/F
Revenue Tower
5 Gloucester Road
Wan Chai
Dear Sir/Madam,
I am writing to inform you of my dissatisfactory with the poor air quality long existing in Hong Kong.
Fuelled by the pollutants from power plants and vehicles, and made worse by the regional pollution, Hong Kong in most of the days seems wrapped in a grey shroud to a point that, you cannot make out from the Central waterfront the buildings on the other side. Urban area is routinely attacked by haze and people have nothing to do but grudgingly live with dust they will never get rid of. The situation becomes so severe that everyone couldn’t turn a deaf ear to it. The effects caused by air pollution are no longer something negligible. Research collaborately done by three universities in Hong Kong estimates that the pollution is costing Hong Kong about HK$21.2 billion a year in hospital admissions. In addition, Studies by local public health experts also found that these roadside pollution levels are responsible for 90,000 hospital admissions and 2,800 premature deaths annually.
We can come to conclusion with the above data that poor air quality not only aggravates the authorities’ burden in medical expenditure but more importantly, the huge lost in productivity.
Further ahead, pollution is driving away business and hurting Hong Kong's global competitiveness. There have been enough warnings from the head of the stock market that pollution was scaring investors away. It is said that the air quality in Hong Kong is now regularly so poor that its “long-term competitiveness is in some doubt”. Tourism, on the other side, has also been affected in the same way. Pollution is dramatically harming both the health of Hong Kong citizens and its economy, It further cripple its ability to attract skilled foreign labours.
The executing so-called “tailor-made”