Imagine living in a world where smog is everywhere and wearing a mask is the only way to step outside. Since the smog is betting so bad, it is impossible to see outside a window. Now, imagine a world where people have learned to use alternative energy. Gas powered cars are rarely ever used and power companies only produce alternative energy sources. No one has to worry about carbon emissions causing global warming ever again. Living in this type of world is almost impossible due to the fact that too many factories are releasing carbon emissions into the air. Factories that are essential in producing electricity and cars are burning fuel and release carbon emissions into the air.
Burning of Fossil Fuels
People all around the world need to reduce the amount of carbon emissions that they release into the air. Plenty of the emissions are created by fossil fuels. According to Glenn Anderson, a member of the National Conference of State Legislatures, “Most C[O.sub.2] emissions come from the combustion of fossil fuel--for heating, electricity generation and transportation" (Anderson 20). The CO2 emissions not only come from cars, they also come from generators to produce electricity. Heating is also a big factor in the emissions. There are so many factories, such as NIPSCO, that will burn fuel in order to produce electricity for a city. While this company uses energy saving bulbs and equipment, they still burn fuels to create and produce the electricity. Scientists are continuing
cutting down forests in Brazil, as well as setting wildfires in places like west Texas cause “carbons stored in trees” to escape. Individuals don't understand that in places like “Brazil,” deforestation causes more emissions than “all of the world's cars.” There are other forms of greenhouse gases as well; like “Methane” released from “Rice Farming, Petroleum drilling, and even cattle bleaching” (Friedman 35). Over “10 Billion” animals are raised for Factory Farms in the United states. Burning Fossil Fuels for fertilizer creates up to “41 million metric tons” of Carbon Dioxide. The Factory Farm industry contributes to air pollution by emitting Greenhouse Gases such as “Hydrogen Sulfide, Ammonia and Methane” (DoSomething Web). Factory Farms is something that can easily be changed by switching to smaller meat establishments, where the common public already expects the meat to come from.
Pollution was first introduced in October 1948, Donora, PA; was enveloped in a lethal haze. Lethal is harmful and is sufficient to cause death. During this people experienced severe respiratory problems. It was difficult for them to breath. The death rose nearly to 40. But this wasn’t a surprise since Donora was no outsider to pollution. Since pollution has long plagued Donora with dirty air.
“In the United States, the burning of fossil fuels to make electricity is the largest source of heat-trapping pollution, producing about two billion tons of CO2 every year” (MacMillan). The United States alone is responsible for about 25 percent of all carbon dioxide pollution globally. (“11 Facts About Global Warming”). As the levels of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases increase in the atmosphere, so does the temperature. Global Warming is a serious threat to the environment and people need to take action to slow it down.
There are several alternative energy sources and other ways in which to reduce the number of air pollutants and raise air quality. The biggest factor in these other options is either financial, technological, or time constraints. There currently are on-going developments in ways to reduce air pollution through current energy consumption. Some of these include changing the types of fuel we use in automotive and industrial pursuits. Such examples are switching to hybrid vehicles, utilizing more bio-fuels and less petroleum based gases, using hydrogen-cell batteries, and lower sulfur content coals. The issue with many of these, besides the coal, is that the technology is still being refined to where it will produce the same results in energy and especially availability. Some other ways are trying to harness the energy available in nature and
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Imagine waking up everyday looking for an umbrella to protect you from the scorching sun and a breathing mask to put over your face to support you in breath clean air. Not only for a period of time but forever, because the air is heavily polluted and the sun is always super hot, that people only ventured out during night hours. These are some of the warning the environmental activist fear could be were we are heading as inhabitants of this planet earth. Many living organism depends on clean air to survive hence the balance of Oxygen, Carbon dioxide and other natural gases must be at a balanced ratio. For many people, who live in the industrialized countries find air pollution as part of our
The environmental issue for my Milestone project is Air pollution. Air pollution is the introduction of particulates, biological molecules, and many harmful substances into Earth 's atmosphere, causing diseases, allergies, and death to humans, damage of other living organisms like animals and crops, or the natural environment (National Geographic, 2016). Georgia air pollution has been a focus for many years. Environmental protection Agency and Clean air act has been one of the main contributors to controlling environmental air pollution from increasing. The research is on scholars, chemicals and gases connected to air pollution and health hazards. Solution for Georgia is conserving, alternative energy and renewable resources.
Since the 1700 Industrial Revolution, carbon dioxide emissions have increased up to 34% in the atmosphere (Josef 1). With numbers still rising, the emissions could have a much more harmful effect on the Earth, causing serious problems in the long run. In fact, just between 2008 and 2012, the CO2 emissions have increased by 8.4% (“11 Facts about Global Warming 2). From just that increase in four years, the next four will be a wake up to reality for people to start conserving the Earth. Every year, human’s activities release about 37 billion metric tons (“35 Facts about Global Warming” 3). New machinery and buildings are going to keep popping up, rising the CO2 levels even more. Humans need to start minimizing their resources. “In the last three decades, the United States has had an average of 80% consumption of fossil fuels such as coal, gas, and oil; all of which contribute to the emission of greenhouse gases” (1). All of these emissions are human-based problems that can be decreased. The CO2 emissions each year will keep rising and no matter how helpful the resource are, it will damage the world eventually.
You can’t escape from it. Everybody has to breath, and when air isn’t clean you health is affected. Air pollution is problem of all of us. You might think that you are healthy because you eat, and do only healthy things, so you cannot be sick, or get cancer, allergies or even die. Everybody is affected by air pollution.
Global warming is caused by human activity. This global warming in turn, causes hurricanes. The hurricanes will destroy the human population main resources. This will lower people into having less important resources such as: food, shelter and water. Having less resources could lead to poverty, which is known in developing countries such as: India, Philippines, and Haiti . There are also changes in the oceans that are being affected. This change occurring could lead to the ocean over flooding due to contaminating the ocean caused by humans because humans have an impact on the environment. Humanity needs to cut down the production in the coal industry because people are burning the coal; this is causing the coal to pollute the air people breath.
Pollution is the introduction of harmful substances or products into the environment. It is a major problem in America and as well as the world. Pollution not only damages the environment, but damages us also. It has cause many problems ranging from lung cancer to the greenhouse effect. It is all among us but we continue to live in our own filth. What is the reason behind this flawed logic? In this paper I will examine the problems and solutions for this issue.
Another solution is that the United States should limit factories how much they should make a year because less smoke means less pollution. Also that would be sort of a bad thing but if we had less pollution we would have more air. Such as recycling and reusing things like plastic bags so we don’t waste the plastic items. Doing the recycling go green way will help in getting the environment in a better place. Another thing that will help the environment get different type of gas for cars that is harmless to the environment.
Earth is the only place in the universe that can support human life. It is very important that we realize this fact and take very good care of it. Various human activities cause the destruction of earth. Human beings can live a few days without food and water however humans can last only a few seconds without oxygen. Various human activities lead to the aggravation of the quality of air. Gases produced by human activities mainly due to exploitation of resources and industrialization cause air pollution. Green house gases mainly chlorofluorocarbons; carbon
Investigating Air Pollution There are many different types of air pollutant. These pollutants have different effects on the environment and on our health. Some, directly because they are harmful chemicals and others because they can react together to produce harmful chemicals. Other pollutants or pollutant combinations upset the natural balance of acidity and nitrogen in the environment which can affect the diversity of species in sensitive areas.
Pollution has become a major issue over the years because it contaminates the Earth’s environment and affects human health. While some environmental pollution is a result of natural causes such as volcanic eruptions, most is caused by human activities. The increase of various types of pollution has made cancer pollutant more prevalent among the people, raising the risk of getting cancer. After being exposed to theses pollutants, the effects may be immediate or delayed. Some of the delayed effects, due to the exposure, can go unnoticed for many years. Another major issue that pollution creates is the tremendous cost for preventing and cleaning it up. However, we can not regulate the pollutants to the extent where there are no more possible