If air pollution continues, how will it affect humans, say, 100 years from now or sometime in the future?

Question

and how much of the chemical substances in the air would of allevated if nobody does anyhting about air pollution???

Will we have to wear air masks. Will most of our animal, plant and insect species be in proper care facilities because they can't adapt to such man-made changes done to their environment? I'm just wondering.

And will people be faced with EVEN MORE health problems????

And moving on to pollution in general, how much would it affect the climate. how more changed would it be?

Answer 1

Well from then we can go to the point which strikes global warming deniers: the oceans !



Because even if global warming would not exist we would have to do something agains the CO2 concentration in our atmosphere. This concentration is lower than expected despite all our fossil fuels burnt because of the absorption by the oceans.

This leads nevertheless to an acidification of the oceans and kills coral reefs.

Answer 2

Air pollution is caused by many things. Before pointing out the health hazards I'll say what I know of the causes.

The black asphalt that is used in parking lots, driveways, roads and roof tops is a major contributor.

Diesel fumes from trucks and other sources.

Poor emissions from automobiles releasing carbon monoxide into the air.

Urban heat islands that are made up of black asphalt roads, parking lots, etc are slowly being changed around the country and world to a light colored surface. Black holds heat and has poor emission and poor reflectivity allowing the atmosphere to heat up to 65 degrees F warmer than the actual air temperature over a grass surface.

Air pollution causes respiratory ailments such as asthma and lung diseases. It can shorten life in humans and animals.

That is why it is important to plant trees and other greenery so those plants can absorb the carbon dioxide from the air and release oxygen.

During the summer thunderstorms can erupt from out of nowhere so to speak, over large black top areas.

Industry and cities have to bite the bullet and stop using materials that contribute to air pollution. Some cities have laws mandating greening.

Answer 3

I think the air today in most western european, and north american countries is better than it's been in 100 years! I think, further, that India and China do not wish to be the last countries to throw the last of their timber and coal on the fire to fuel the fires of this industrial revolution. I suspect that within 20 years oil and other coal based fossil fuels will be priced such that it's unreasonable to use them for burning except in airplanes where we haven't really been looking all that hard for replacements. For automobiles, I suspect a lot more energy will come from biomass. Homes? nuclear, wind and solar.



And as for air pollution or any pollution at all...I suspect the bigger problem is going to be antibiotic resistent bacteria getting into the food chain somehow. We're really breeding ourselves more delicately and the vermin more aggressive having all but wiped out natural selection among humans (we've partially replaced that effect of advancing the species health with good medicine, including antibiotics but even those have their limits when faced with epidemic obesity).



I like the question, though - it's interesting food for thought. Thanks.



Edit: In retrospect, I think it's important to distinguish between the classical definition of pollution and agents that contribute to thermal blanketing of the planet. Digging up all the oil and coal in the world and spewing it into the air in the form of H20 and CO2 isn't inherently polluting - but it will warm the place up (actually, the way we burn coal is generally pretty highly polluting because we let a LOT of pollutants into the air when we do that - and that's the distinction I'm trying to draw. In one case - pollution - you get more cases of cancer, respiratory diseases, etc. In the other case you increase the ocean level, severity of tropical storms, gain croplands far north and south of where we have them today (in exchange of lost land nearer the equator) - none of this is inherently toxic, fatal, or otherwise deleterious to humans (people can move and have been moving for hundreds of thousands of years).

Answer 4

As it is we are facing so many respiratory and skin diseases with the present pollution level.May be scientists may invent some pollution proof creams jackets etc and give each small oxygen cylinders to Be carried on the back with a hose to nose.who knows?

Answer 5

yes, people will all become mutants. you think some are ugly now, just wait. woe is us..did you ever hear some one say they need three hands to do something? well, they'll have them. woe is us. the only solution is for people to stop breathing and turn the planet back to the animals and bugs. or, we could start to admit it's a cycle, as it was before,and always will be. if enough people believe this, (global warming crap) we'll all be driving horse and buggies. then we'll be right where the rest of the world wants us. you're watching the fall of the roman empire 2. wake up.

Answer 6

it will affect from this very moment its already happening now this instant at the rate were burning fossil fuels 50 years they will run out





IM MOVING TO MARS

lol

Answer 7

1. there will be more occurrence of respiratory disease

2. high motality rate

3. impaired visibility

4. contaminated rain water

Answer 8

Man would be extinct.