Letters to the Editor
Feb 3, 2010

Editor's note: All of the Torrey Pines fifth-graders were given an assignment to write Letters to the Editor. Here's a selection of a few of them. The remainder will be published next week.



Let's make sure to spare the air daily



I walked on an early Sunday morning and I inhaled deeply uggh smoke. My name is Isabella Gardner and I think we should spare the air every day. Our air is polluted, not as much as other places, but it is still polluted. We can't clean our air easily, but we can stop polluting it. One spare the air day won't help as much as every person doing a little part every day.

Air pollution is a health hazard. Particulate pollution from the burning of fossil fuel kills 24,000 people per year in California according to the newest figures from the California Air Resources board.

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