Hong Kong s Air Pollution Problems - 1660 Words

Hong Kong’s Air Pollution problems Hong Kong’s air pollution has reached unprecedented, phenomenal levels, which seems to be growing controllably with each passing day, and creating worse situations. Despite there are desperate and overwhelming measures taken by the Hong Kong Government Authority to address and rectify the situation, the situation of air pollution is turning grimmer by the day. After the Second World War, the major working sector in China began a massive shift from the agrarian to the industrial sector, a process that was accelerated by the War. Today there are eighty-two percent of the citizens in China are living in urban areas as compared to the large numbers of the citizens that were living in the rural areas in†¦show more content†¦Besides, the smog from neighboring China also contributes to high levels of air pollution in this city, and exacerbates already bad conditions in Hong Kong, which has been defying solution for all these years. In the event this uncontrollable situation continues to thrive, most denizens and citizenry of Hong Kong would have to make a mass exodus out of the country, much to the chagrin of the Government and Civic Authorities (EPD, An overview of the air quality and air pollution control in Hong Kong, 2015). According to recent studies conducted by the University of Hong Kong, the current levels of pollution in Hong Kong were at least 3 times that prevailing in New York and twice of that found in London. 20% of the residents of Hong Kong are affected health- wise by the pollution for which there now does not seem to be ready or resolvable answer (Mirandila, 2012). The Hong Kong government looks on as hapless spectators as pollution-related issues continue to grow, unabated, and all their best control stratagems seem to be getting them nowhere. The issue is progressing in recent years, thanks to proliferation of industries, power plants, factories, which spew tons of wastes into the Hong Kong atmosphere every day, besides tonnes of CO2 and other deadly chemicals from the plethora of plying vehicles on Hong Kong streets at any given point of times, adding to the