Air pollution is an ongoing problem Scientists are able to quantify into functional information now. Previously pollution happens and people die. As the United States begins opening resources comprehensive understanding of Meteorology and Scientific Geography prepares us to avoid disaster in the form of death and illness due to unknown substances in the air.
The City of Los Angeles spent millions of dollars to understand smog. After compiling information the reason is obvious now. Basically, Los Angeles rests next to a mountain that blocks wind from freely flowing across the United States. In subterranean basin it is a low point wherein not only their pollution, pollution from cities upwind is held. Pollution travels over the ocean and returns the next day. Reticulating the same air coastal water is cold causing air to be cooler than warmer air flowing at higher altitude. This creates a bubble trapping all entering air next to the coastline. Los Angeles has several conditions trapping and recycling pollution instead of dispersing it into other regions.
There is nothing government can do to stop air pollution in Los Angles, yet they can reduce air pollution. This does not mean opening factories on the other side of the hills. Wind will blow damaging air pollution to other regions. This idea upsets everyone. There are several unrealistic ideas in "What's in the Air." Two-thousand foot smoke stacks, large fans, building tunnels through the mountains and blowing air upward with helicopters are a few suggestions. One idea is realistic. England reduces pollution with tree belts three miles wide around manufacturing areas.
In Northern States pines, firs and bushes are best for providing oxygen because they do not hibernate. Algae, moss and types of fungus also convert chemicals that are harmful to humans into oxygen. Most of these algae, moss and fungus grow on trees. Trees love carbon dioxide. Fungus love nitrate, ammonia, ethanol and ethanol. After consumption there waste is wonderful to humans and most animals, so there is breathable air every day.
Absorbing toxins makes it so smog does not float to nearby cities. Lighting produces ozone for mammals and nitrogen dioxide for algae. Fungus provides oxygen and carbon dioxide depending on the phylum, so there is plenty of air for everything. There is even a variety of squirmy bugs finding sulfur is a pleasant snack and neutralize the chemical during consumption.
Fresh air is never one chemical. It is a relay race turning chemicals into other chemicals so everything has enough of what they need to live. Everything on earth was here before. Nothing new is introduced into the ecosystem. We are simply moving things. The challenge is to determine how everything fits together in order to live.
Science fiction and horror movies have created an inaccurate, maybe accurate prediction of the future. While people want to sanitize the earth of everything, except human beings, nature works together to create a livable environment. Is it because Scientists place mankind as apex of all life we overlook how mankind has a place in ecology besides makers and destroyers of all things living until almost killing humanity? If human breathing converts everything into carbon dioxide, without plants how long would it take until all of the air is not breathable?
Mosquitoes are irritating creatures. Most people are aware of the importance of all life, yet mosquitoes attack a person as part of their mating process. Most people understood until West Nile Virus was linked to mosquitoes. Disliking mosquitoes I enjoy bats. Bats are close to endangerment. Largely feeding on mosquitoes and gnats it wouldn't be difficult to provide better conditions for bats, owls and eagles in urban cultures, yet there is a pest in the food chain that people protest.
Attracting bats is as easy as providing a fertile hunting ground. In Utah they migrate in spring and fall. Mosquitoes need standing water to breed. There is no more work than leaving out a bucket of water in the rain to produce swarms of mosquitoes. Gnats eat gluten. Lawns with wild wheat or a box of old pasta provides an adequate environment for gnats to swarm. With swarms of food, bats find the area inviting. A natural hunting ground there is no point in feeding bats bat food. Guano is a great fertilizer and less toxic energy source. Bats and birds also provide air current with natural movements. As living fans they could create air circulation to prevent inversion though intelligent enough to avoid air pollution.
After creating ground cover and bait for bats they have to find it. Prey swarms without predators. It could take over a year for bats to find the habitat. Fortunately DEET is available. One year in swarms of mosquitoes sounds horrifying. Spray homes and clothes to repel insects. It might be easier to place natural predators, frogs and lizards, next to stagnant water like a pond with algae and moss.
Avoidance of work is an excellent solution for saving the planet. We will avoid chopping down trees. Leave stale water alone and avoid killing insects. With flying animals we have a perfect defense against air pollution. There are even more ecosystems demanding lazy attitudes towards sanitizing everything and pest control.
Bats are only one ecosystem. Rodents attract owls and eagles. Beautiful birds, sometimes people think owls nest and then rats appear. Without local owls rodents swam. Friendly diggers reorganizing moss and pollen rats are only pests when overtaking a neighborhood and gnawing on timbers. Eagles live in higher altitudes, yet hawks are also predatory birds.
When thinking about killing an insect, spider, rat or bird with poison think about what the animal is doing and producing. Though it is its nature, animals are functionally gardeners keeping plants healthy. People are not alone in maintaining the whole world. Insects, spiders or rats are not part of our diet. Technically we eat birds, yet I have never seen anyone shoot at a crow and then roast it over a fire. Karma appears in the form of how whenever citing living organisms as pests, humans become pests.
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