Why should people care about pollution in Mexico City?
CHUCK: Pollution in Mexico City is representative of pollution in the large, developing mega-cities around the world. There are a tremendous number of people, many hundreds of millions now, living in this type of a city. Mexico City is characteristic of a class of cities we call developing mega-cities. There are many dozens of cities, which have five to fifteen or twenty million people, scattered around the world. Hundreds of millions of people are living in these kinds of cities and the demographic projections are that when we get to the middle of this century that will be multiplied many times over. If the people living in these developing mega-cities have their health severely impacted by air pollution, these cities are not going to thrive, and they’re going to be global problem spots for the entire world. It turns out, of course, that the world only has one atmosphere. And so the pollution that’s created in Mexico City may well influence Miami at some point. The pollutions that are
