They say a picture says a thousand words. But what is it saying? Sometimes a picture depicts its subject negatively and sometimes positively. This is exactly what advertising takes advantage of. Luckily, most of the time the advertising is positive, but there are some subjects (pollution, for example) that are shown in a negative light.
These pictures of smog and traffic polluting the air with exhaust makes me sick. It looks horrible, and I can't believe people would live somewhere where they are forced to breathe in that aweful pollution every day. I'm sure that the people living in smog-covered cities don't notice it (I didn't when I went to LA), but it probably affects them more than they know. The gases in the air are pollutants, so they are putting unwanted chemicals into the air we breathe. We breathe it in and then our lungs deal with the pollutants. It's like second-hand smoke!
Okay, so I'm sure that the pollutants aren't as toxic as cigarettes, but they definitely should be avoided and removed from our atmosphere. Pollution is a problem, and air and water pollution directly affect us because we need clean air and drinking water to survive. If we continue to pollute the atmosphere and water systems in one hundred years our grandchildren really won't have anything to live for. I hate to sound like Al Gore, but it's true. This is a problem, and I don't want to be responsible for wrecking the world.
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