Trees and leaves in Portland, Oregon USA

Portland, Oregon USA -- the "City of Roses".

Advertized American values.

Roses are but one thing, but it is necessary and proper to view photos of other foliage in order to gauge the botanical realities of this city located in the Pacific Northwest.

 

 

 

 

 

 

PHOTOS:  DT LANGE CC 2.0

 

Dirty Air Sun Glare Reflections of Reality Ignored No More

BUT FIRST A HEALTH WARNING -- THE OZONE PYRAMID:

AIR POLLUTION -- AEROSOL PARTICULATE -- THE SUN THAT IS NO LONGER GOLDEN BUT A PASTY WHITE FROM FOSSIL FUEL FILTH IN THE AIR

A QUICK REFERENCE GRAPHIC:

OK, NOW FOR SOME PHOTOS THAT PUBLISHED LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHERS SEEM TO MISS FOR SOME REASON:

 

 

 

 

 

 

An ozone pollution surge in Texas, USA.

PHOTOS:  DT LANGE CC 2.0

Revisiting the Politics of 200,000 Deaths or Smog Kills

200,000 USA Deaths Per Annum in Context

200,000 deaths per year = 16666.666 per month = 547.945 per day = 22.831 per hour.

While President Obama, his cabinet, and Congress plot to punish Syrian President Assad for using aerosol chemical agents to kill innocent Syrians, let’s take a look at American deaths from another gaseous toxic chemical mix we term air pollution.

MIT recently released a study detailing 200,000 yearly air pollution deaths in the United States.

We learn, “The greatest number of emissions-related premature deaths came from road transportation, with 53,000 early deaths per year attributed to exhaust from the tailpipes of cars and trucks.”

Using some government/military jargon, these numbers show common “delivery systems” under the “command and control” of individual Americans.

Another identified “delivery system” of lethal chemical agents is the emissions stacks of coal fired power plants, “Pollution from electricity generation still accounted for 52,000 premature deaths annually.”

If we look closely at the total numbers, we see that 200,000 American deaths per annum equates to, 16666.666 deaths per month, or 547.945 deaths per day, or 22.831 American deaths per hour. (Be sure that many of those victims are children.)

These deaths are from intentionally caused toxic chemicals that are allowed to be put in the communal air.

The nation of Syria is enduring bloody violence and hardship in a multifaceted civil war, and a regime willing to use extreme measures against opponents and innocents.

But America should consider that it has no moral or legal standing to punish another regime for its use of a concentrated and barbaric use of chemical gas weapons when America itself allows the destruction of its own citizens from similar means within its own borders.

Story Idea Sent to Democracy Now

Aug 30, 2013

Democracy Now,

Serious Air Pollution in America is Killing Americans and Trees That Signals a Threat to Our Health and Safety

This is the second or third note I have sent you on this on this critical subject.

Widespread and chronic damage to trees, plants and ecosystems by toxic air pollution, and what it portends for us all, have been documented by Gail Zawacki, a knowledgeable blogger in New Jersey. The evidence presented is pervasive and persuasive. New evidence has come with each post.

See: vagabonding

Her latest post of August 30 details dying and dead trees and plants on both coasts of the US.

I have documented the same sort of destruction in Santa Barbara, California.

See: oaks figs of ficus plums in Santa Barbara or windspiritkeeper

I alerted, and furnished photos to all levels of government: city, county, state, and federal. (I can furnish names of the officials, and approximate dates.)

I appealed to you to cover this story a couple of years ago. The situation is far worse now, and foreboding.

A recently released MIT study regarding 200,000 American deaths from air pollution has data that lists the most lethal and vulnerable areas are the same places with the obvious dying plant life: coastal California and the eastern US, centered at Baltimore, Maryland.

I hope Pacifica and Democracy Now has the resources and courage to tackle this.

Sooner or later, either some responsive new organization will cover this, or the only story to cover is a post disaster obituary.

Thank you,

David Lange