Causes And Effects Of Pollution

Having over 121,000 kilometers of rail lines throughout China and 228,218 kilometers throughout the United States transcontinental travel throughout the countries has become immensely accessible. The use of such transports has subsequently resulted in an emittance of pollutants such as nitrous oxide, particulate matter, and carbon dioxide. The increase of the anthropocentric activity dictates the positive feed back loop of the total emissions of criteria pollutants.

How many times have you heard someone talk about pollution? Or even hear someone bring up the topic of pollution.What about global warming? That involves pollution. In fact that is caused because of pollution. Pollution is one of the biggest global killers, affecting over 100 million people. That is comparable to global diseases such as malaria and HIV (“11 Facts About Pollution” ). Most people do not understand the impact of pollution on themselves and the environment. Pollution can spread through soil, air, and water. Pollution is one of the biggest problems in everyday life. It affects all of the plants and animals.

Pollution and Environmental Degradation are things that the large majority of humans contributes to some small or large way on the daily. Whether it is our mode of transportation, throwing a piece of trash on the ground, buying products made from trees, and to be perfectly honest the concentration in which we live, by which I mean the proximity of the average residents in which we reside. These all seem like regular everyday things that are just normal. But in the past things like these were so beyond the norm that they would seem alien and impossible.

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.

Vehicles emissions and waste products currently have a significant impact on the health of the environment. In American vehicles have the largest impact upon air quality, producing approximately one-third of all America's air pollution (National Geographic, n.d). There are multiple waste products which are produced by vehicles including; smog, carbon monoxide, and other toxins which are emitted out of the tailpipe (National Geographic, n.d). Tailpipes as they are at street level, are extremely dangerous as humans are able to breathe in the polluted air directly into their lungs (National Geographic, n.d).

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.

The earth is 4.543 billion years old. Our ancestors have been estimated to date back to six million years, with modern human life dating to 200,000 years ago (Reed). The effects of humanity on earth can be exhibited by the increase of pollution within our world. As our population begins to grow, so does our carbon footprint upon the earth. On a more localized scale, the Central Valley is a mecca to poor air quality and elevating pollution levels. An assortment of environmental factors increases pollution levels. The central Valley is a mecca for the climate, natural, industrial, mobile and agricultural components that equate to this growing problem.

Pollution is the action of contaminating air, water or land by harmful substances which are natural and man-made wastes. Such wastes degrade the air, water or land which reduces is quality and usage. Sources of pollutions are automobiles, increased chemical wastes, nuclear wastes and accumulation of garbage in landfills. Air pollution is one type of environmental contamination which has remained as a main problem in the society. Major contaminants include carbon dioxide (CO2), carbon monoxide (CO), sulfur dioxide (SO2), hydrocarbons (HC) and particulates. These contaminants pose critical environmental and health threats. These are not only experienced locally but internationally as well. Other parts of the globe experience worse cases than the other due to certain conditions of the environment. (Baje, Calong & Cudiamat, 2014)

The world we live in now is negatively affected by pollution. Our environment and even our bodies are being impacted by the amount of pollution being taken in. while every organism on our planet has some impact on its environment, only a few affect the planet as tremendously as we ourselves humans and the many activities we perform on a daily basis. Therefore, we have a great negative impact on the planet, including that of pollution. Pollution is the introduction of contaminants into the environment that causes a disturbance in the equilibrium of the environment, especially the air we breathe in every second. Pollution affects everyone in the world and it is produced by various everyday human activities, therefore pollution can have adverse effects on the human body and provoke different effects on the environment.

1. Air pollution : Air pollution can be defined as the presence of toxic chemicals or compounds in the air, at levels that pose a health risk. In an even broader sense, air pollution means the presence of chemicals or compounds in the air which are usually not present and which lower the quality of the air or cause detrimental changes to the quality of life (such as the damaging of the ozone layer or causing global warming).Air Pollution is the most prominent and dangerous form of pollution. It occurs due to many reasons. Excessive burning of fuel which is a necessity of our daily lives for cooking, driving and other industrial activities; releases a huge amount of chemical substances in the air everyday; these pollute the air.

70 % of our Earth surface is covered by water and almost 60% of the human body contain water for nutrient transportation. The unique characteristic of water is water molecule is the only substance in this Earth that exist in all three physical states of matter which are solid, liquid and gas. All human beings need water to survive. The national development over the years cause the rate of water pollution increased. According to Gebre & Rooijen (2009) water pollution can be considered as a sign that derives from economic growth and is a common phenomenon in urbanized cities in developing countries. In general, there are three main issues that related to water pollution which are the causes, effects and the way to decrease this problem.