The Unhealthy Air Pollution in Jakarta, Indonesia - By Kiana William Ng

Air pollution can also cause climate change. Climate change is a change of temperature patterns. Climate change is often mistaken how it's the same as weather, but its completely different, climate change is what people expect, while weather isn't what people expect because they change day by day. There are many effects of climate change but the most common one is heat that is so extreme that it could melt the layers of ice like in Antarctica and Greenland. The extreme heat is caused by the heat of smoke that is released into the air. The extreme heat could also start a forest fire, which is a cause of air pollution.

Air pollution can also cause global warming. Global warming is also caused by the effects of the greenhouse gas emitted by people. Global warming is the increasing of air temperatures near the surface of the earth. How air pollution causes global warming is because of the heat of the air that's produced by air pollution. With the amount of heat around the earth, icebergs will melt down and cause the sea level to rise and cause floods or tsunamis, which can cause dangers around the world. The current levels of the greenhouse gasses are carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide. They have the ability to trap heat and cause global warming. 

There's a lot of great alternative solutions to save our environment from air pollution. With the many alternative solutions, we are taking action to saving our environment! Even though some of the solutions are hard to achieve, we can try to achieve the easy ones first. Some common and easy alternative solutions to stop or at least decrease air pollution is to use less motorized vehicles, avoid burning trash in an open place, and raise awareness about air pollution. 

Using less motorized vehicles will help decrease air pollution because of the smoke they produce. Instead of motorized vehicles, we could use bicycles or even electric cars. We could also use public transportation like the MRT or bus. We should use cars and motorcycles when we needed to go somewhere far like going to one city to another. Using vehicles that doesn't use fuel/ any substance that creates smoke will help a lot for the environment.

Instead of burning trash, we could use the 3-Rs which is "Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle." The 3-Rs means to minimize the amount of waste you use, use items more than once, and to put products to a new use instead of throwing/ burning them. The 3-Rs aren't hard to use at all, everyone can do it if they're willing to. By using the 3-Rs, it can help the environment a lot because less trash will make our it clean and safe!

Spreading awareness about air pollution could make people interested on how to save earth from pollutions. Spreading awareness is quite easy if you're willing to do it. You can start by posting in social media about it. Posting on social media is quite easy and a lot of people might see it since now days people uses social media, but of course spreading awareness out of social media is possible too like making a poster. With the awareness being spread, people might realize and take action to air pollution. 

A solution to solve the air pollution in Indonesia that I think is best is using less motorized vehicles and spreading awareness. Cars and motorcycles sure are a fast way to go from one place to another, but it isn't good for the environment. I suggest using public transportation or electric cars. Spreading awareness is a simple and easy way to tell people about the environmental problem the earth is facing currently. As we do things that doesn't hurt the environment/ create pollution, the earth will soon be a safe and healthy place to live in. 

Conclusion and Reflection:

Pollution hurts the environment a lot without most people realizing it. Even when some people complain about pollution destroying the earth slowly, sometimes people don't realize that they're the one causing it with all the different activities and habits people do. Without any change towards pollution, bad things might happen to us and the earth itself. With many of the solutions given by people around the world, the earth could be a safe and healthy place to live in. 

I think that we should do our best to stop pollution in order to live a safe and healthy lifestyle. I realized how dangerous pollution is to the environment and our health, if pollution is still around us in the future, our environment will surely be ruined and we'll be sick. I will learn more about pollution, it's effects, and how to stop it. I will also do my best to not do anything that may cause pollution!

Thank you for reading my essay! May God Bless You!