Home⇛The Philippine Journal of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (PJBMB)⇛vol. 8 no. 1 (1988)

Metropolis in Decay- Air Pollution

Zenaida Legaspi-ochotorema

Discipline: geography, earth and environmental studies

 

Abstract:

Air pollution in Metro Manila has turned from bad to worse. The metropolis has now acquired a canopy of pollution, a dark haze resembling the clouds of an approaching storm. The air, especially in traffic congested areas, smells, and contains particles and gases that make breathing difficult. In fact, one feels drowsy or nauseous when breathing this air for some time. Can we remain indifferent to this situation? Are we not concerned with the ill effects of the pollutants in the air we breathe? Should we not take positive measures to arrest and reverse the trend in the destruction of the air for survival - ours, our children's and the coming generation's?



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