Summary: The effects of air pollution from burning fossil fuels are not only bad for humans respiratory health, but now there are reports that air pollution lowers fertility in men and can complicate pregnancy in women. These problems are likely compounded by the rapid urbanization taking place in the rest of the world where it is harder to access healthcare. A test that examined 748 male workers that inhaled air pollution daily, 500 of those men showed change in their fertility. Reaction: I always knew air pollution from burning fossil fuels was damaging to human's health, but this is very surprising! Air pollution causes so much damage and it is surprising that we have not done much about it, even after these test were taken and are clearly something we should worry about.
Questions:
1. How will this effect our world in the future?
2. What do you think can change so this is prevented?
3. What else can air pollution effect other then human's health?
This article is extremely shocking and just demonstrates another reason why we need to clean up our air quality. If their is a problem with respiratory health, it will have a HUGE impact on our future. We really need to stop burning so much fossil fuels and clean up our air quality so it does not effect human health.
ReplyDelete1. If air pollution lowers fertility in men and complicates pregnancy in women, there will be major problems in the future when it comes to reproduction.
2. In order to change this major problem, we need to clean up our air quality. We can do this by burning less fossil fuels and saving electricity.