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This 10 page paper discusses the effect automobiles have on the environment. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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that automobiles are one of the major contributors to global warming and other environmental problems. This paper discusses the effect automobiles have on the environment. Automobile Emissions and Smog
The automobile, environmentally speaking, has been a mixed blessing. The street cleaners who were tired of cleaning up after horses saw the car as a huge improvement; they
"could not appreciate that the environmental panacea of one generation [could prove] to be the bane of another" (Melosi). "The technical limits of the internal combustion engine and the
scale of automobile use produced devastating forms of pollution" (Melosi). Americans became aware of the dangers of smog in 1948, when a "temperature inversion kept a dense smoke cloud of
sulfur dioxide and particulate matter close to the ground for six days in the steel mill town of Donora, Pennsylvania" (Melosi). Seventeen people died on the fifth day, and
two more died the following day; nearly half the town became ill, and 10 percent were "severely affected" (Melosi). There were also the famous "killer smogs" in London; in
1952, 4,000 people died in the English capital; and in 1953 a smog in New York City killed 200 (Melosi). Although it became apparent that smog was a killer,
the place of the automobile in that story was slow to develop (Melosi). The internal combustion engine produces a different type of pollution from other engines (like locomotives) that burn
coal, and no one quite understood what the problems were (Melosi). In addition, after WWII there were many more cars on the road than before the war, and their
mobility "intensified the spread of air pollution, added more and newer sources of pollutants, and most immediately threatened many major cities" (Melosi). In Los Angeles, which is infamous for its
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