Who will shoulder the cost of this air pollution? How many will be sick or die of respiratory diseases or cancer?

Live healthy and long

                           Visibility is very poor because of heavy pollution


I again took photos of the air above Laguna Lake and the other coastal municipalities.  The cold morning air, still air, and cloudy skies made the air pollution worse.

My throat is itchy;  a number of people I know have colds and/or asthma attacks.

Right now, the effect on human health and lives will not be felt.  But 5 to 10 years down the road it will be.

How many will be sick of respiratory diseases, of cancer (from xenoestrogens) how much will it cost?  Who will shoulder the cost?

Why is nothing being done?  People will act if tens of thousands will be affected, but most especially if the public officials relative, or even his own life is involved?

When shall words be backed up by action?

 x                             Still water;  pollution in the air

 x                            Pollution hangs thick over Alabang area

 x                               Heavy haze over the residential area

                                  Who is measuring air pollution?  This flood level stick?

Will air quality over Laguna and Rizal ever improve?

Live healthy and long

 It is second day of the year.  The  pollution is not as bad as yesterday.  But air quality at around  630 am is bad.  You can see the smokestack of a glass company in Pasig spewing out smoke over Makati buildings which all ready, are hidden by smoke.

                        Dark and thick smoke hang over Taguig and Makati;  can they breathe there?

How does this air quality affect health and diseases among MM residents

Live healthy and long

We took this picture early today and please make your conclusion on the air quality at MM

Will our health get better?

Do you think steps are being undertaken to improve the air quality?

How many will contract COPD, cancer of the lungs/throat, skin this week?

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How do these pollutants affects estrogen levels in women, in men (viz a viz their testosterone level?)

MM Air Quality is Still Bad

Nothing is visible at the MM skyline;  air quality is badder

Metro Manila's Air Polllution of Mass Health Destruction

Effective Cures Can be Cheap

                    It rained yesterday, and air quality got worse today.  What is the health payback later on?

                              Air quality is also bad at Loyola Retreat House

                              You can see the trees, but not Laguna Lake;  can you?

                                  View from Unamonte...

                                 There is no fog here;  the haze comes from pollution

You must be wondering about the relationship of air pollution to low cost cures.

l.  Pollution affects our body health much much more than food medicine or health care can.

2.  Pollution is the direct cause of respiratory diseases:  COPD:  bronchitis, asthma, emphysema.  The second smoke from cigarette smoking must be just a microbe compared to this very bad air quality.

3.  Following the Otto Warburg theory of cancer, ie that cancer survives in a low oxygen environment as we have now, then a lot of our population must be harboring incipient cancer cells.

It is time to:

l.  Convince LTO, MMDA, LGU, DENR to launch a no nonsense drive to implement clean air act.  Hmm, maybe they are in air con cars or they dont see these.  What you do not see cant hurt you?  Let us see.

2.  It they dont, time to  migrate to the provinces.

I hope this blog catches the attention of our public sector executives.

 
 This is Cairo, Egypt;  one of the worst polluted;  are we catching up?




 Pollution in New Delhi



Links

Worsening Air quality in MM - from GMA news. 

EMB reports 32% improvement in Air Quality --Really? Do the  pictures  confirm these?

Metro Manila's Deadly Air - This is In Touch with Reality

Study of Pollution of Mass Destruction

Effective Cures Can be Cheap

I tried to study using the camera, how the air pollution look like from afar MM. This is a crude way of "studying it"  I am sure scientists from DENR, DOST, UP have better ways of measuring the air pollution.  But I am aghast at what I saw....

   Using the Nikon coolpix telephoto lens, this is how smoke starts to engulf buildings at Global City.  Note the time.


Morning views/monitoring

                               Paranaque area was still  visible

 x                              So was Alabang area;  bird in flight at the foreground

                                           Paranaque area

                                              Dramatic view of the SLEX skyline

Deteriorating air quality:

                                        Skies begin to darken, bird in the foreground

                                        Global City and surrounding areas begin to disappear

                                            Clear skies but dark cities

                              It looks like its post New Year celebration

                                   Can you still identify the place?

                               Opaque view of Global City

                              Bancas and joggers are visible;  Taytay and Pasig skyline arent!

                             The fish pens, the hut, the banca are visible, western skyline unclear

   Are we not wondering if Metro Manila commuters and residents still have functional respiratory system if this is their environment?  I am glad I live in this area.  Or we look the same from afar?


Are the  scientists measuring the air quality?

Are they taking corrective action?

What is the effect on the health of MM residents and commuters of this phenomenon.?


Pollution in the afternoon

Maybe because of  the wind and the very warm temperature, the dark skies over the Global City area disappeared.  We should be thankful for the very warm temperature;  they must have vaporized the polluting air.  But the dark skies moved to SLEX and Alabang area.

                               Paranaque area

                                Alabang and SLEX area

                                 Global City area now cleared of fumes, but still hazy though

                                 The Southwestern side (SLEX) hardly visible

           The buildings at Global city are visible from Lakeside;  now they can breathe?


Stunning sunset views

  Stunning Sunset showing clear skies, the high temp vaporized the pollutants?

      Postcard perfect picture

This is the normal view of the other side of the lake

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  Day is done, done the day.   God is nigh.