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    Contaminación en México

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    Mexico City has very high levels of air pollution that negatively impact the health of its 23 million inhabitants. The city suffers from atmospheric conditions and winds from northern Mexico that bring large amounts of sulfur dioxide. Pollution is estimated to kill around 9,000 people per year in the country. Some of the main causes of increased air pollution in Mexico City include the large number of vehicles, emissions from industries and households, climate change, and wildfires. The primary health consequences of the pollution include premature deaths, respiratory infections, heart disease, and some cancers. The government has implemented various education and awareness programs to address the issue.

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    Mexico City has very high levels of air pollution that negatively impact the health of its 23 million inhabitants. The city suffers from atmospheric conditions and winds from northern Mexico that bring large amounts of sulfur dioxide. Pollution is estimated to kill around 9,000 people per year in the country. Some of the main causes of increased air pollution in Mexico City include the large number of vehicles, emissions from industries and households, climate change, and wildfires. The primary health consequences of the pollution include premature deaths, respiratory infections, heart disease, and some cancers. The government has implemented various education and awareness programs to address the issue.

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    Mexico City has very high levels of air pollution that negatively impact the health of its 23 million inhabitants. The city suffers from atmospheric conditions and winds from northern Mexico that bring large amounts of sulfur dioxide. Pollution is estimated to kill around 9,000 people per year in the country. Some of the main causes of increased air pollution in Mexico City include the large number of vehicles, emissions from industries and households, climate change, and wildfires. The primary health consequences of the pollution include premature deaths, respiratory infections, heart disease, and some cancers. The government has implemented various education and awareness programs to address the issue.

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    Contaminación en México

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    Mexico City has very high levels of air pollution that negatively impact the health of its 23 million inhabitants. The city suffers from atmospheric conditions and winds from northern Mexico that bring large amounts of sulfur dioxide. Pollution is estimated to kill around 9,000 people per year in the country. Some of the main causes of increased air pollution in Mexico City include the large number of vehicles, emissions from industries and households, climate change, and wildfires. The primary health consequences of the pollution include premature deaths, respiratory infections, heart disease, and some cancers. The government has implemented various education and awareness programs to address the issue.

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    Pollution in

    CDMX
    Mexico City is one of the most polluted cities in the world and poor air quality
    affects its 23 million inhabitants. The 23 million people that inhabit Mexico City
    suffer from high levels of pollution as a result of the combination of
    atmospheric depression and the arrival of winds from the north of the Mexican
    capital, bringing with them large amounts of sulfur dioxide. In the country,
    pollution kills about 9,000 people a year.

    Nowaday the atmospheric pollution has


    increased by a lot of causes:

    Excessive use of Increase in emitted of Combustion Overpopulation Industries


    vehicles: there some pollutants: There is from of
    are at least 4.7 a large quantity of gases households
    million cars in like carbon monoxide
    CDMX. that pollute the air. Statistics
    Transport and vehicles
    Industries
    Household combustion
    Others

    0 10 20 30 40 50
    Climate change Lots of Graph 1: Pollutant emissions in the ZMVM.
    Own elaboration based on SEDEMA diagrams.
    wildfires.

    The main consequences pollution in Mexico


    City are:

    A lot of Respiratory Heart diseases Some types of Damage to the


    Premature deaths tract infection Cancer and a large environment
    number of diseases

    Implemented solutions in CDMX:


    In Mexico City there are a great number of programs
    like the DEA (Dirección de Educación Ambiental) that aim
    to provide knowledge, create awareness and promote
    citizen participation to save the environment from
    pollution. There are a few institutions like SEMARNAT
    and SEP that have incorporated environmental
    education in schools.

    Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán


    Inglés Intermedio 1
    Br. Naara Bernice Martínez López
    Br. María Angélica May Canché

    Rivera H. Cecilia, Sánchez R. Flor, Andrade M. Ángel. Contaminación Atmosférica de la Zona Metropolitana del Valle de México y sus efectos en la salud; 2016.
    disponible en: http://dccd.cua.uam.mx/archivos/Madic/terminal/ContaminacionAtmosfericaZMVM.pdf
    Garza G, Aragón Fernando. La contaminación atmosférica de la ciudad de México en escala megalopolitana; Universidad de las américas Puebla.
    Samaca Aguilar, M. (2019). Contaminación ambiental CDMX [Tesis de pregrado, Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia]. Repositorio Institucional UCC.
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12494/18178

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