Air/Energy/Climate

Air

Where are we now?

Unfortunately, we and our global neighbors have gradually added a lot of unusual substances to the air that we breathe.

Most of these substances come from the output of these sources:

• Industry, particularly heavy engineering
  
  
• Coal-burning power stations
  
  
• Tailpipes of cars, trucks, trains, ships, and planes

The output from these become pollutants in the air that we breathe.

The air in our neighborhood holds pollutants from our local highways and in some areas from industrial plants.
Contaminated air crosses state, national and far international boundaries. Amazingly, pollutants in our air can originate from across the world (dust from China falling on the U.S. West Coast). The opposite is true, too. Pollutants that we create can affect people in far-away regions like Tibet and India.

We are tightly bound together in a world that shares its best and worst with each other.

Did you know?

Did you know that North Carolina’s air is affected by air from the Ohio and Mississippi Valleys and even China?