Smog and the Beijing Olympics 2008

Posted by Jennifer on August 9th, 2008

I’ve had my own personal experience with heavy smog and really bad air quality and it’s not just from being a Los Angeles native…

I was in Bangkok, Thailand doing volunteer work and the commute to the location that I was volunteering took about four hours each day in heavy traffic — the smog was so think many times it was difficult to even see twenty cars ahead, or the tops of buildings.

I ended up getting a respiratory infection, lost my voice and I was coughing up stuff from my lungs that no person should ever be coughing up.

As the Olympics have now started I think it’s important to point out that all around the world major pollution problems exist, such as in: India, Dubai and Barcelona just to name a few.

Check this out. The World’s 10 Worst Cities
Arsenic-laced drinking water, lead-contaminated soils and choking air pollution are sadly just the start in some of the world’s dirtiest places from Popsci.com these ten pictures speak a thousand words.

Let Beijing be an eye-opener to all around the world that it’s everyone’s responsibility to regulate emissions and work to keep our water and land free of toxins as possible.

Smog and how it is effecting health in the Olympics 2008