One of the reasons I have Pulmonary Hypertension is because I have COPD which is basically severe lung disease namely Empathysema.Most people who have COPD are either smokers or ex-smokers in fact as high as ninety per cent but I am neither.The doctors don`t really understand why I have COPD being a non smoker but I think a lot of it is probably to do with the environment I grew up in.I lived very close to a chemical works and a coal powered power station as a child near to one of the busiest roads in the country.You would often sit in our garden and see smoke bellowing out of the chimneys of the power station and chemical works.I think it all really had an effect on my lungs and caused my present problems.
I believe we must do much more to make the air we breath cleaner and healthier. We need to cut back on car use, invest in public transport, make more of our town centres car free, punish companies that pollute, invest in better cleaner ways of producing energy and powering our cars.
We are clearly not doing enough at present. In London they have exceeded there pollution limit for the year in just six months which is outrageous.We need to do more for our children`s sake, for the generations to come so they can breath fresh clean air and do not end up struggling to breath like many of us do now.
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