Air pollution in san bernardino

1. Air Pollution In San Bernardino
By: Victor A. Martinez
Geog 106
Instructor: Lisa Schmidt

2. What Is The Problem?
• Our problem with pollution is
that we are careless as a
community and allow
industries, factories, and
companies to pollute our air
without “Doing More Than
Enough”. The pollution in our
county is causing more deaths
and also with the smog in the
air its causing more people to
get asthma in our county. How
is our next generation going to
be able to grow healthy and
strong mentally and physically
if our environment isn’t even
letting us do that?

3. Where is it happening?
• Our air pollution is not
only happening within our
county but is also being
pushed towards us by the
winds from china (who
carries one of the worse
pollutions in the
world).Our pollution is
coming from our
warehouses, factories,
trains, cars, trucks, planes,
buses, power plants, oil
refineries, industrial
facilities, agricultural
areas, cities, and fires.

4. How Does It Affect People Or the
environment
• You could go days without food and hours without water, but you would last only a
few minutes without air. On average, each of us breathes over 3,000 gallons of air
each day. You must have air to live. Breathing polluted air can make your eyes and
nose burn. It can irritate your throat and make breathing difficult. In fact, pollutants
like tiny airborne particles and groundlevel ozone can trigger respiratory problems,
especially for people with asthma. Today, nearly 30 million adults and children in
the United States have been diagnosed with asthma. Asthma sufferers can be
severely affected by air pollution. Air pollution can also aggravate health problems
for the elderly and others with heart or respiratory diseases.
• Some toxic chemicals released in the air such as benzene or vinyl chloride are
highly toxic and can cause cancer, birth defects, long term injury to the lungs, as
well as brain and nerve damage. And in some cases, breathing these chemicals can
even cause death.
• Other pollutants make their way up into the upper atmosphere, causing a thinning
of the protective ozone layer. This has led to changes in the environment and
dramatic increases in skin cancers and cataracts (eye damage).

5. What is the history
• In the early 1990’s San
Bernardino experienced the
development with homes,
warehouses, and factories. Plus
the warehouses attract diesel
trucks to hall the merchandise,
which causes more pollution to
the environment. As of today
San Bernardino has more
pollution than Los Angeles
county

6. What are some solutions?
• I believe the we should electrify the equipment in the
rail yards and the local motives themselves that
transport the containers , so at the end we have 0
emissions coming from containers. For example:
Hybrid/Electric vehicles, electric lawnmowers, non
polluting paint, non toxic clothes cleaners, and energy
saving light bulbs.