When it comes to Australia, it is said that the sky is blue and the water is clear, which is much better than the domestic PM2.5 haze days. The question is, is there really no air pollution in Australia?
In fact, Australia's air quality regulation is extremely chaotic, even state air emissions standards are not uniform. In many cases, air pollution standards are even lower than those in China. More than 3000 Australian weekly deaths are due to air pollution every year.
Go to this URL below, enter your zip code, click on it, and you will know.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-11-16/australian-pollution-mapped-by-postcodes/10478620#postcodes
Friends who live in MelbourneCity, through the site for zero pollution, such a high rent is not in vain after all. The friends who live in North ink should pay attention, the air quality of north ink is already low-grade pollution.
Recently, the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) collected emission data from the National Pollutant inventory (NPI) and household weekly income data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). A survey called "The Dirty Truth" was published, marking for the first time the level of air pollution at each postal address on the map.
More than 90 percent of pollution facilities are in low-and middle-income areas, compared with the situation in affluent areas, with only 10 percent in Australia, according to statistics.
What is the standard definition of rich areas?
Answer: average household income level exceeds 3K per week
You know, middle-class families earn just A $853 a week. To work hard to the middle class, but also to absorb poison gas, this is what the world. And, according to the study, if your income is 60% of the country's lower income, then you can both live near pollution emission facilities.
Air pollution is not only an environmental problem but also a class problem.
Low-and middle-income families, earning a fraction of their fingers, are unfairly responsible for the pollution they bring.
Air pollution is not alarmist. Take a look at Alicia Kernaghan and her family, and you'll know.
3018-Melbourne's most polluted area
Alicia Kernaghan and her family lived for generations in Altona, just 13 kilometers from Melbourne's CBD. People there and CBD people live in a blue sky, breathing not the same breath of air. An Altona refinery emits as much as 86 percent of the pollutants in the Altona area, bringing a miserable life to its residents.
Alicia's mother-in-law has emphysema and small cell lung cancer, Alicia's partner has asthma, and Alicia's children have asthma.
A family, old and young, get sick together. The sad story doesn't just happen in this family. Alicia alone lives on the street where at least four people suffer from asthma.
In addition to refineries, coal-fired power stations and mining operations are two major sources of pollution.
There are no exceptions to the reported pollution areas of Top5, either with coal-fired power stations or nearby mines.
1. Mount Isa Mines Queensland
2. Bayswater Power Station New South Wales
3. AGL Loy Yang Victoria
4. Nyrstar Port Pirie South Australia
5. Stanwell Power Station Queensland
In addition to the people living in these high-risk areas, no one else should be taken lightly. Because the most common pollution industry is actually the manufacturing industry that is closely related to our lives, and most of the manufacturing industry is located in areas where the crowd is concentrated. And those facilities are spread around and in the middle of our major cities.
Many urban residents may not notice the pollution in their daily lives, but there is no denying that air pollution exists, and it is indeed true that threat, our lives, respiratory diseases, heart disease, lung cancer, bad luck, As long as one of them, such a person can die.
Especially for children and the elderly, these two groups are particularly vulnerable to the direct impact of air pollution on their health.
How can you live a hundred years and breathe fresh air?
"move, buy a house in the rich area."
The government of Australia is called upon to establish a uniform air quality inspection standard as soon as possible, to strengthen air quality supervision, to be responsible for the lives and health of the people, to have a blue sky and clear water as soon as possible.