Earth Day: No more Burning Rivers, but new threats
Forty years after the first Earth Day in 1970, smog levels have dropped by a quarter and lead levels in the air are down more than 90 percent. Former polluted lake and burning rivers are now opened for swimming. Today’s new pollution are not easily seen therefore harder to take control of. Since the first Earth Day, CO2 levels in the air have increased by 19 percent, causing the annual world temperature to increase 1 degree. Past improvements took shape in the form of new acts such as the clean air and water acts. According to research the region still has 6000 premature death yearly linked to unseen tiny particles in the air that cause heart and lung problems. Just cause we don’t see the pollution does not mean that it vanished.
-Danielle Creel
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