volkswagon inventing a wood burning car, does not only help in alternative advancement in sidelining the use of gas to run a car. Is the global warming scientifically consider? Air breathtaking? NRDC do something.
Climate change is the greatest humanitarian crisis of our time, responsible for rising seas, raging storms, searing heat, ferocious fires, severe drought, and punishing floods. It threatens our health, communities, economy, and national security.
Worldwide, nations have begun taking steps to combat this growing threat, working toward an international agreement in which every country on earth plays its part. Many of the world's largest polluters have stepped up with significant commitments, amplified by efforts from cities, businesses, sports leagues, churches, and many other individuals and groups that have responded to the urgent need for climate action.
In the United States, power plants represent the single-largest source of carbon pollution, spewing two billion tons into the air each year. In response, President Obama's U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has developed the Clean Power Plan, which sets the first national limits on carbon pollution from power plants and provides states with the flexibility to meet them.
The plan represents the most important step the United States can take right now to combat climate change and help spur climate action around the globe, as world leaders look toward an important meeting in Paris this December. With nations working together to cap carbon pollution, expand renewable power, and embrace energy efficiency, we'll have a fighting chance at getting off this destructive path.
Time may be running out to fight climate change, but they're are not running out of solutions.
That for the natural reaction .
What about human health?
In a chemical reaction, the molecules of one substance break apart and join together with those of another substance to create a different compound (combination of molecules). Many chemical reactions are NON-REVERSIBLE CHANGES .You cannot turn a baked cake back into its raw ingredients.
Burning is a non-reversible chemical change. When you burn wood, the carbon in the wood reacts with oxygen in the air to create ash and smoke, and energy in the form of light and heat. This is a permanent change that cannot be undone – you cannot turn ashes back into wood.
I am not concern with reversibility here, am concern with prevention and not slumber because money speaks.
Let me coin your knowledge more.
It is as a result of a hypersensitive immune system. The B-lymphocytes in the immune system misidentify a harmless substance (an allergen) as harmful and so return back to the lymph node where they came from and change into a plasma cell. These plasma cells then produce antibodies designed to attack the allergen. In an allergic reaction the antibodies associated with it are IgE antibodies which are a type of protein (also known as immunoglobulin E). The IgE antibodies then attach themselves to mast cells.
When this happens the mast cells break open .These are located in body tissues and derived from bone marrow. These cells contain many chemicals including histamine. The histamine is then what causes the allergic symptoms. One of these symptoms is inflammation. The histamine causes this reaction by dilating the blood vessels, allowing blood to enter the area which causes swelling.
Another symptom of an allergic reaction is tightness of the chest and a shortness of breath. This is due to the fact that the histamine causes the constriction of muscle. Therefore muscle around the airways constricts causing difficulty breathing. Other symptoms can include vomiting, itching and a rash. Often, the symptoms you experience depend on the parts of the body involved and where in your body the histamine is released.
How might wood smoke cause it?
Simple! Let me give you a gist on it.
When you breathe in the smoke from wood, this can sometimes cause an allergic reaction. This could be due to a couple of factors. One of these is that in some types of wood burnt, the allergen present in the pollen on the tree is also present within the wood. These can survive combustion and therefore are within the smoke. Examples of trees this could happen with include oak, hickory and mesquite.
Another aspect of wood smoke that can cause allergic reactions is the irritants contained in it. These include nitrogen dioxide, formaldehyde, phenols and sulphur oxides. These can aggravate the respiratory system and irritate the eyes and nose and trigger an allergic reaction.
In point; Breathing air containing wood smoke can:
• reduce lung function, especially in children;
• increase severity of existing lung diseases such as asthma, emphysema, pneumonia and bronchitis;
• aggravate heart disease;
• increase susceptibility to lower respiratory diseases;
• irritate eyes, lungs, throat and sinuses;
• trigger headaches and allergies.
Long term exposure to wood smoke may lead to:
• chronic obstructive lung disease;
• chronic bronchitis;
• increased risk of cancer and genetic mutations (based on animal studies.
If such is left to exist, imagine humanity life span.
What’s in Wood Smoke?
My research as a curious scientist though a law student, feeds my curiosity with the gist that
Many individual components of wood smoke can cause health problems. These compounds include:
• Carbon monoxide - invisible and odorless; fatal in high concentrations; impairs thinking and reflexes; causes heart pain; associated with lower birth weights and increased deaths among newborns.
• Formaldehyde - causes nose and throat cancer in animals - circumstantial evidence suggests it may cause cancer in humans.
• Organic gases - includes aldehyde gases and other respiratory irritants which can interfere with lung function and can cause inflammation of the throat and sinuses, or allergic reactions.
• Nitrogen oxides - linked to hardening of the arteries, immune system damage; facilitates the spread of cancer (effects all based on animal research).
• Tiny smoke particles - can cause chemical and structural changes to human lung tissue; measured decreases in human lung function; cancer and genetic mutations clearly established in animal studies.
Smoke Particles
The tiny particles in wood smoke pose especially important health concerns. T hey are less than 10 microns across (the period at the end of this sentence is about 500 microns wide). Our bodies’ natural defenses cannot protect us from these pieces of matter. Instead, we inhale them deep into our lungs where they can become lodged. These particles can cause structural damage and chemical changes to the lung tissue, and reduce resistance to infection. Cancer-causing and toxic compounds often attach themselves to the tiny particles and hitchhike on them into the lungs. Wood stoves and fireplaces release more of these particles into the air in Washington each year than industry and motor vehicle exhaust sources combined. Air polluted with tiny particles, such as those in wood smoke, has been linked to increased deaths in London and U.S. cities where daily records of fine-particle air pollution are available. The increased death rates occur mainly among people over 65 and those suffering from lung and heart diseases. Based on this research, as many as 60,000 U.S. residents may die each year from exposure to air polluted with these particles at levels which may not even violate the current federal health standard for this kind of pollution.
Will leave you with a question for your thoughts to dance with while you are triggered with awareness of humanity.
What is the state of human going to be when volkswagon succeed to sell those car all round the world?
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-A J Broun
Student
University of Abuja
Faculty of Law
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