The ongoing pollution problem around the world is most pronounced in Asia. This is what the article, U.N. Report Points to Peril From Noxious ‘Brown Clouds’ is concerned with. I thought that the lead is very effective in pulling in the reader. Everyone knows the problem with the over pollution in the world, and the wording of the lead makes it known right away that this article is going to cover pollution.
The article gives a brief overview of the factors that are causing over pollution in the world, but its main focus is the effects it is having in Asia. I knew that there is a pollution problem in Beijing, China from coverage during the Summer Olympics. I did not know though that the smog is visible from airplanes.
The facts that the article puts out are really astonishing. It really makes the reader think about the environment and what people are doing to create a more toxic living space. I think that the article is very effective in getting the reader to think differently about pollution and what it is doing to the environment.
The problems that cities such as Bangkok, Cairo, New Delhi, Tehran and Seoul, South Korea are facing could possible happen to major cities in the United States. I also liked how the writer ended the article. The ending paragraph focuses on the health problems that the pollution is causing. It is estimated that 340,000 people in China and India die each year due to health related issues caused by pollution. For the article to end on people dying from the pollution, the reader becomes a lot more concerned about the problem.
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