Preventing carbon monoxide - R/P

These days, it is one of the important risks that carbon monoxide is cause§∑ by industrial development. In Korea, death by carbon monoxide poisoning usually happened in the late 1970s, because they had used briquettes for heating. There were no detectors to alarm for leaks of carbon monoxide, and then tragic death occurred. However I thought it was only a story of a long time ago, and these dangers had disappeared today. But I was surprised when I read an article that mentioned two deaths because of carbon monoxide in Manhattan last year (Gilgoff, 2005). In addition, more than 3,000 Americans are killed by carbon monoxide every year (Lee, 2005). Because of this problem New York City made a law that all buildings should set a detector to announce an alarm at the leak of carbon monoxide (Gilgoff, 2005). However, this risk is still in existence around our lives, even though the detector is invented and the technology developed. The reason it is called a tragic death is that victims of carbon monoxide didn’t do anything; they are just victims of the industrial development. Therefore the most important problem is there are too many things that create carbon monoxide and there are no laws about the treatment for victims of carbon monoxide poisoning.

I plan to write about some solutions to prevent carbon monoxide and some counterplan for victims of carbon monoxide poisoning. First, we should try to develop machines that create less carbon monoxide, such as hybrid cars. Second, we should develop stronger detectors. Finally, the government should compensate the victims for their loss.

I have got the information about the carbon monoxide detector from the articles. Also I need more information about laws for setting the detectors and the treatment for the victims.

Reference:

Gilgoff, H. (2005, July 1). Detection: It’s the law Getting guidance; New York City residences now must be protected against carbon monoxide. Newsday, New York. Retrieved from Lexis-Nexis database, Oct. 25, 2005.

Lee, R. (2005, Sep 8). East Norwalk company garners awards for carbon monoxide detection systems. The Stamford Advocate. Retrieved from Lexis-Nexis database, Oct. 31, 2005.