Air Pollution in Taipei City

    As the development of Taipei City, it brings lots of advantages and also disadvantages. One of the seriously negative effect is air pollution. Recently, Taipei was in PM2.5’s danger. Air pollution will impact our body and health. For example, the respiratory tract(呼吸道) will feel uncomfortable, skin will be more sensitive and so on. There are some causes of the air pollution.

   

    Too many cars and motorcycles are the main reason that causes air pollution. Taipei is the capital city of Taiwan, it has about 27 millions’ people. Although Taipei has convenient public transportations, such as buses and the MRT, there are still lots of people drive their own cars and ride motorcycles. So the transportations will release a large number of carbon dioxide every day. According to the research, motorcycles are especially release more carbon dioxide than cars. The government wants to improve the situation; they establish some laws to decrease the carbon dioxide release. The government also promote people to ride the bike instead of ride the motorcycle.

    The second cause of air pollution is deforestation. Because of Taipei is an inch of land, an ounce of gold, this is usually a result of land development for agricultural, commercial or recreational purposes. Without the forest, carbon dioxide cannot be changed into oxygen quickly, so it will cause the air pollution too. Recent years, the government had advanced the city greening, they try to use this method to encourage people don’t deforestation and grow some green plants to instead.

    Taipei has lots of buildings, for example, office building, apartments, schools and department stores and so on. Each building will have air conditioner, which is another reason of air pollution. When we turn on the air conditioner, it will release some cooling material, which will make effect on our environment. Air conditioner will also release CFC(氟氯碳化物), which will destroy the ozone layer. (臭氧層) Nowadays the refrigerant has change the ingredient, it won’t destroy the ozone layer, but it will cause greenhouse effect. Although both of the refrigerants will cause damage to our environment, we choose the lesser of two evils.

    Air pollution impacts Taipei a lot and it also effects our health. We should try to decrease the pollution and protect our environment. Uses some ways to modified the condition of air pollution.