Cause And Effect Of Pollution

Particulate matter (PM) is comprised of small particles such as acids (nitrates and sulfates), organic chemicals, metals, soil, and dust

The World Health Organization estimated that more than 800,000 deaths worldwide were due to outdoor air pollution. Air pollution is a growing issue in industrialized areas due to exposure from industrial and traffic sources. Harm to the human body occurs from exposure to and inhalation of particulate matter (PM) (Barnes et al., 2012). PM is liquid or solid particles in the air, that when small enough in size, can be harmful to the human body when inhaled. Two common sizes of particulate matter are PM_10 and PM_2.5. PM_10 are particles that are 2.5 to 10 micrometers in size, and includes dust, mold and pollen just to name a few. PM_2.5 are particles that are 2.5 micrometers or smaller in size, and consists of particles from vehicles, industries, and burning. Smaller particles are able to get into the lungs and potentially cause serious health problems (Environmental Protection Agency [EPA], 2015). These health problems include acute cardiovascular events, changes to blood pressure, coagulation, myocardial perfusion, and chronic respiratory diseases (Barnes et al., 2012).

What is air pollution? The online webster dictionary says,”Air pollution is the contamination of air by smoke and harmful gases, mainly oxides of carbon, sulfur, and nitrogen.” Air pollution is caused by both human and natural events. Natural events include fires, volcanic activity, erosion of the wind and many other things as well. Human events include manufacturing activities such as factories and workshops as well as burning fossil fuels and chemicals used for farming and household activities. There are many substances, minerals, and chemicals. Sometimes the air could

hydrocarbons, nitrogen oxides, and sulfur dioxides. Diesel exhaust is a significant donor to PM pollution.

Imagine having your life cut short by at least ten years. This is the reality for many people who are constantly exposed to high levels of air pollution. In the midwestern United States, members of the Teamsters Union are at a higher risk of lung cancer. These union members are truck drivers and mechanics who simply work their hardest every day to make a living. They haul heavy equipment or material to construction sites or warehouses. Workers may have to load and unload equipment as well as repair any problems the vehicles have. Similar to the average American, they work many hours a day and spend even more hours on the road driving and hauling equipment from place to place.

Scientists now suspect that a significant cause of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s could be the air we breathe. We have to get out of here, the air people breath is not cleaner, and we can see that at the sunset when the sky looks brown and all the health problems people have become a harsh consequence of industrial growth across the world. As defined by Chris Woodford, air pollution is a gas released in a big enough quantity that harms the health of people or other animals, kill plants or stop them growing correctly, and damage or disrupt different aspects of the environment. There are many effects of air pollution, and also there are many things that cause it, for example excessive use of chemicals and cars. People cannot live without fresh air, there is nothing better than breath clean air after a long day of work, but nowadays it is scarce the place where the air smells fresh. Air pollution is affecting all humans, and we cannot close our eyes to the problems because the sense that detects this issue is our smell. Unfortunately, people are not doing something to decrease the air pollution, on the contrary, almost everything people do diary affects the air quality, as Woodford explains in his article, “…burning things, using household or industrial chemicals, or producing large amounts of dust has the potential to cause air pollution.” People have to be aware of air pollution, its causes and effects, it is caused by overpopulation and can lead to health problems, but

The little girl staggers home, coughing into her elbow she lifts her other hand, waving it in front of her as if to pull away the surrounding haze. Entering the cramped apartment, she crumples onto her bed coughing gutturally until her exhausted body pulls itself into a restless sleep. Two weeks later the little girl does not come to school; instead her still body is found curled up in a ball, smiling, as dreams of a sparkling waterfall and fresh mist engulf her. Everyone in the world is exposed to the same infection that seeped into her innocently oblivious self. In the same way breathing smoke from another person’s cigar is harmful, the inhalation of this infection is potent and dangerous. One of these is escapable--one is not. Pollution haunts everyone in the world, inadvertently invading and destroying lives. “At least 92% of people in the world do not breathe clean air” (World Health Organization 2017). 1.7 million children under the age of 5 are killed every year from pollutants, comprising only a fraction of the total 9 million deaths linked to pollution that occur annually. The situation is critical and continues to deteriorate. I am stricken by the effect of pollution, which mankind generously feeds and seems to have no concrete intentions of reversal. However, there is one way to drastically better our future. We are people constantly trailed by smokers who, feeling entitled to abuse what belongs to everyone, light their cigarettes, robbing us of our clean air.

The earth is home to many animals. These animals use resources from the earth in order to survive. With earth’s temperatures rising, the air we breathe is affected and could easily harm us. “Global Warming is an increase in the earth's atmospheric and oceanic temperatures widely predicted to occur due to an increase in the greenhouse effect resulting especially from pollution.” (Merriam-Webster) We are so clueless to the fact that the damage of the earth is mostly caused by humans. The four main causes of pollution are water, air, land and agricultural pollution. All are different, but all cause damage to our environment. Which is why we need to be more careful with taking care of our atmosphere and planet.

A global issue that affects many people and potentially the world. Some of the biggest global issues is pollution, this is called a wicked problem. There is no easy or immediate solution. This problem is a result of human choices and actions. There are three types of pollution, water air, and land pollution. Before trying to solve this issue, it is important to know about the issue, what is currently happening regarding this issue, and how it impacts the local and global sphere.

Have you ever wondered how pollution, or more specifically how fossil fuels add to the effects of global warming? Fossil fuels are organic hydrocarbons formed from the remains of dead animals and plants which have decayed for millions of years. There are three main types of fossil fuels: coal, oil and natural gas. These fossil fuels have been the biggest source of energy to date. Coal been in use since 1,00o BC, replacing biomass as a primary source in the 18oo’s. massive consumption of oil started in the 1900’s and became the primary source fuelling cars, planes, other vehicles, powering electricity plants, etc. Yet despite being a natural source, these fossil fuels have greatly impacted the environment negatively, adding to the greenhouse gases, inhibiting the release of heat into the solar system and as a result is the cause of rising sea levels and irregular weather patterns.

America's increasingly prominent contamination of water and air from nitrates, lead, plastic and other pathogenic organisms is critical to our environment and the health of our population. Pollution has existed since the dawn of man. However, the transition from a nomadic lifestyle to a settled society escalated pollution. The Roman empire had been the first to introduce lead pollution into the atmosphere. As the population grows exponentially so does pollution rates, primarily in developed countries. It hadn't been until the second world war that industry's begun producing synthetic plastic materials. These materials are hardly biodegradable and therefore accumulate in the environment faster than they can be broken down. It was also in this 1950’s era that scientist first began developing agriculture fertilizers as well as inorganic pesticides. It has been discovered that these particular compounds have a negative effect on ecosystems and humans.

Historically (pre-1892), the agrarian landscape was conducive to clean air; a time void of pollutants; however, with the advent of the industrial revolution, air quality was forever changed. Interestingly, two of today’s leading contributors of emissions are the result of two significant man-made events dating back to 1892 and 1893, which first began polluting the air. First came the emergence of factories with their emission billowing smokestacks (Davis & Henderson, 2011), which was followed by the first gasoline-powered automobile housing an internal combustion engine in 1983 (The Library of Congress, 2017). Although there’s shared knowledge about the importance of air quality and the health implications associated with air pollution, factories are still releasing toxic fumes and automobiles are releasing exhaust (Agency for Toxic Substances & Disease Registry, 2013). Subsequently, that which was the catalyst that carried society into the modern era remains a public health threat 125 years later.

People have heard of pollution, but what some don’t know is that there are many types of pollution. Pollution can have different consequences depending on what kind there is. In the world so far there are only nine types of pollution that have been recognized. Although this can be negative to the world it’s also affecting the health of people as well. In order to understand what pollution can do to you and the world you need to know the types that are causing the harm.

On certain days one may notice it seems to be a little harder to breath when you’re outside for a while. Or if one is outside for a while they start to cough and get a tickle in the back of their throat. Those are symptoms of a bad air pollution day. These are days when the air pollution could be higher because of certain circumstances. There are different kinds of air pollution and all of it has effects on one’s health.

People throw away whatever they don’t need any more for more than hundreds and thousands of years, this reaches from the old medieval period where people throw their trash and feces on the street to the modern time where people throw plastic in the oceans or pollute the air with toxic gasses and carbon dioxide. In this paper, I will focuses on the challenges around the pollution of the air with carbon dioxide.