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NSTP 04
NSTP 04
Breathing a clean air is our rights but unfortunately, we pollute the air that
contains oxygen which is essential component for life on earth. As what we have
discussed above with regards to climate change and water pollution, air pollution also
has its causes, effects and ways to prevent it. Causes of air pollution comprise burning
of toxic waste, fires, smokes, carbon emissions from the manufacturing and agricultural
sectors, burning of fossil fuels that releases gases and chemicals into the air, and other
acts similar to these. With that, air pollution causes deaths through diseases such as
lung cancer, stroke, pulmonary disease and acute respiratory infections such as
pneumonia, short-term problems like sneezing and coughing, irritation, headaches, and
dizziness, memory problems and Alzheimer’s like brain declines, and such. The things
we can do to avoid this is to plant more trees to clean the air we inhale, reduce usage of
vehicles not powered by electricity coming from solar and wind and through
campaigning to more renewable energy and replacing gasoline-fueled cars with zero
emissions vehicles such as electric ones.
The act providing for a comprehensive air pollution control policy and other
purposes known as PHILIPPINE CLEAN AIR ACT OF 1999 or the Republic Act No.
8749 aims to protect and advance the right of the people to a balance and healthful
ecology. Moreover, it promotes and protects the global environment while recognizing
the primary responsibility of local government units to deal with environmental problems
and recognizes the right of the people to breathe clean air and that “polluter must pay”.