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The Last Gasp Sustaining Los Angeles for a breathable future

The Last Gasp Sustaining Los Angeles for a breathable future. Zach Rieck. Why Los Angeles??. Los Angeles serves as a “worst case scenario” for many other urban areas Many natural obstacles working against it City has worked toward many solutions and failed. It has actually gotten better!!.

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The Last Gasp Sustaining Los Angeles for a breathable future

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  1. The Last GaspSustaining Los Angeles for a breathable future Zach Rieck

  2. Why Los Angeles?? • Los Angeles serves as a “worst case scenario” for many other urban areas • Many natural obstacles working against it • City has worked toward many solutions and failed

  3. It has actually gotten better!! • Data shows that the “worst” smog occurred in the ’40s • Reasons: lack of knowledge, diesel buses, poor regulation • This ISN’T to say the air is good now! • There are actually mountain in LA!!

  4. Modern Concerns • Urban heat island effect • Runaway population growth • Ethanol : Not as clean as we think?

  5. Health Risks • Air quality has historically reached levels where masks were necessary • Elderly and people with respiratory diseases faces potentially deadly consequences for breathing • Children may develop respiratory disease

  6. What causes the smog • Natural topography causes the basin inversion effect (similar to what happens in Salt Lake Valley in winter) • Large car emissions due to a poor public transportation system • Relaxed emission standards

  7. How it can be improved • Investing in an affordable, practical public transportation system in the area • Using cleaner, renewable energy that doesn’t worsen the smog as much • Creating stricter emission requirements and harsher consequences for exceeding these standards

  8. “The Goal” • Efforts to improve LA’s smog can be applied to other cities with pollution issues • LA is not one of a kind • Biggest faults are the same as other cities

  9. Sources for Extra Pictures • http://world.time.com/2013/02/28/spring-sandstorms-add-to-chinas-bad-air-misery/ • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tokyo_Public_Transportation_L8609.jpg • http://cgge.aag.org/PopulationandNaturalResources1e/CS_US_July09/CS_US_July094.html • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Los_Angeles,_CA_from_the_air.jpg • http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/01/health/time-bad-air/ http://www.melonacres.com/SweetCorn.html

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