How to reduce the smog in our city'

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Cata Gonzalez
Smog

• How to reduce the smog in our city.

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Santiago vs. Smog

• Santiagos situation with smog is terrible.
• Theres lots of kids entering the hospital with
  respiratory problems.
• When citizens look up to the sky, they see gray
  and not blue.
• 1/4 of the Chilean citizens die of lung cancer
  each year due to smoking and smog itself.
• People cant enjoy doing sports because if
  someone jogs in the outdoors, he will eventually
  get tired This person gets tired because of the
  amount of smog he is inhaling.
• Santiago has too many factories, cars, and
  constructions going on.

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Other Cities That Deal With Smog

• Los Angeles, CA, USA
• Ontario, Canada
• Linfen, China
• La Oroya, Peru
• Vapi, India

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Tips to Reduce Smog

• Start walking, biking or using public
  transportation leave your car home.
• Run your car for check-ups to see if its working
  efficiently this works to see if its not
  releasing that much smoke into the air.
• Dont use coal for central heating, gas is
  better.
• Close some of the factories that are working
  around the city. Specially is theyre lots of
  factories producing the same kind of product.
• Use a premium quality gasoline because it
  releases less sulfur that regular gasoline.
• Keep your household temperature reasonable in
  the summer use fans.

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Linfen, China

• Linfen has to fight and reduce the smog in their
  city because its becoming very dangerous.
• To reduce all the smog they have, they are
  planning that by the end of 2007, 160 of 196 iron
  foundries and 57 153 coking plants will be
  closured.
• For central heating, they will be no longer using
  coal and will start using gas.
• It has been working because last year the
  residents of the city breathed 163 days of smog
  and during the year 2005 they had breathed 178
  days.

Citizens have to use masks
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Vapi, India

• Vapi is in the same situation as Linfen.
• Vapi is reducing the amount of factories they
  have working around the city.

Other Cities

• Cigarette smoke is also somehow influential to
  the smog in some cities.
• By reducing the amount of smoke, it helps the
  environment a little bit more.

Los Angeles, California

• Vehicles are Los Angeles greatest pollutants.
• To reduce smog, L.A had to control the amount and
  quality of cars and trucks out on the streets.

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Effective?
Yes. It is effective but the change takes a long
period of time and the changes are only small but
significant.
In Los Angeles the new cars pollute 95 less than
the old cars 30 years ago.
Hybrid Car
Example
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Santiago, Chile
All of the aforementioned strategies may be used
in Santiago.

• Santiago is surrounded by mountains which cause
  the excess of smog to stay trapped inside the
  city.
• Theres a large amount of vehicles, factories,
  and smokers in this city.

Situation Now

• There are too many factories on the outside of
  Santiago, and we could eliminate ¼ of those
  without it affecting our economical status.
• People can stop riding their cars and walk to
  their jobs or ride a bike. This way there is less
  amount of CO2 released into our air.
• In a future we could also convert our car engines
  into a hybrid engine which recycles the CO2.

Solutions
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Extra Info
By reducing the smog in Santiago we could help
reducing global warming and make the temperature
go back to normal.
When the temperature is back to normal in
Santiago it rains, and each time it rains the
smog clears out for a couple of day making it
look clear and beautiful.
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• Bibliography
• Guardian Unlimited, http//environment.guardian.co
  .uk/waste/story/0,,2042999,00.html
• Blacksmith Institute, http//www.blacksmithinstitu
  te.org/ten.php
• Schreiner, Shelley, Environment California tells
  the EPA to reduce smog, Hugg, http//www.hugg.com/
  node/1207
• Ontarios Smog Problem How to reduce smog?,
  http//www.driveclean.com/why/smogprob/gf1_6e.html
  
• Reducing Emissions from California Vehicles, Air
  Resources Board, http//www.arb.ca.gov/msprog/zevp
  rog/factsheets/reducingsmog.pdf
• The Atlanta Journal-Constitution,
  http//www.ajc.com/news/content/health/smog/reduce
  .html

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The End
Hope this was very educational to you.