EXTREMES

Air Pollution August 7, 2010

At times I really wonder if every God’s creation could talk what could they have said. Or maybe they communicate to us but we just don’t understand.

There is one creation that I know that would have really complained a lot, which is the air. This is very dangerous because the minute we tamper with the air we breathe the results is just death.

One air pollutant that I could speak off is our great cars. By the way their engines operate and then they emit thick smoke, one would think that they were there in the times of Noah. One thing is that this thick smoke will continue killing us and also our plants.

One time I boarded a minibus from home to town in Nairobi Kenya and there was this other minibus in front of us which emitted thick smoke from its exhaust pipe. We could not open the window but even if we closed them there were still some loop holes where the smoke got through. The mini bus that I was in was slow so we just had to keep some distance away from the other mini at least to stop inhaling the dangerous carbon.

 Besides that, all our main roads are under construction which is a very good thing, but all the dust plus the carbon from the cars’ exhaust pipe inhaled by human beings will automatically cause one to have severe chest pains. Not only us humans but also when they cover the green plant planted besides the busy roads.

 There’s one banana plant in a certain restaurant just besides road which looks like back planted bananas. I can say that for once, I have seen a black banana plant which is all because of the air pollution caused by the vehicles. 

Diseases such as bronchitis, lung cancer, asthma and other chronic chest diseases are easily obtained from this smoke of which they are very fatal. At times I normally think that the problem is with the engine of these cars or the different types of oil that the owner puts in, but no matter the type of problem that there is, the thing is that repairs must be done fast to save great lives