David M Nehring
Mr. Townsend
ENGL 1302
6 November 2016
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“One hundred and fifty years ago, the monster began, this country had become a place of industry. Factories grew on the landscape like weeds. Trees fell, fields were up-ended, rivers blackened. The sky choked on smoke and ash, and the people did, too, spending their days coughing and itching, their eyes turned forever toward the ground. Villages grew into town, towns into cities. And people began to live on the earth rather than within it.” ― Patrick Ness.
Environmental pollution is one of the greatest dangers to our planet. Pollution destroys our natural environment and jeopardizes human existence. It’s obvious the economy finds numerous advantages in technological development. However, harmful toxins produced from the work of industrial facilities and construction sites as well as the use of transportation contaminate and pollute the environment considerably. Pollution is a process of contaminating the environment in a way that it becomes hazardous and unsafe to use. The major types of environmental pollution are air, water, noise, thermal, soil and light pollution. Throughout the last decade, the world has witnessed a substantial rise in environmental pollution. The effects of pollution are devastative and impact more than 200 million people around the world. A report from the NGO Pure Earth suggests that “one out of seven deaths occur due to pollution”. Another comparison demonstrates that “pollution kills 60%
Every day when looking out a window, people see a beautiful earth. The earth is intriguing, but hinges on a delicate balance. Many natural resources keep the grass green and the sky blue. Man has made quite an impression on our world, and has transformed the earth's resources into tools to make life easy. However, mans' manipulation on earth has become detrimental to the health of our planet and the safety of mankind. Through the use and production of resources such as oil and energy, man is gradually poisoning the earth. Pollution has become such a dilemma in society; there is no real control or a feasible solution to society's recklessness. Without complete change, our system will collapse. The earth will eventually retaliate with disaster, or corporate control of our economy will cause hysteria and depression. Evaluation of the consequences and repercussion of worldwide pollution, may give people a better idea of what the future holds.
Although thought to be “not a big problem” and “under control” by most people, pollution is making its way in being a serious and an unforgiving threat to society. Pollution a topic everyone hears and knows exists. What they don’t know is how serious of a problem it is already becoming. Many health issues are being reported now that are linked to air pollution and even the most severe weather places have encountered are linked to air pollution also. By society, not fully being aware of the true threat that pollution is making, it will only become a growing threat that they will be encountering.
This increased production has come with blessings of availability and affordability of goods and as well a challenge which is pollution to the environment. Factories produce gases that when released to the atmosphere cause serious damage to it. In essence, the polluted air causes pollution to the land and water and hence affect life wherever it exists. The symptoms of the degraded environment may include human diseases such as cancer and some skin diseases as well as the death of aquatic animals, abnormally high temperatures, and unpredictable weather. Basically, environmental pollution is largely artificial and cause adverse dangers to current and future generations (Harper,2017).
Pollution is a big factor in the destruction of our environment, and it is an issue that has been going on since the Industrial Revolution in the 18th century. The main cause of industrial pollution was factories, which made up about 21% of the world’s total
“Ours, a water planet. The ocean covers 71 percent of the surface of the globe, and it constitutes over 90 percent of all habitable space on Earth. It’s total volume is around 300 million cubic miles and its weight is approximately 1.3 million million million tons. No wonder that Arthur C. Clarke, scientist and writer, once remarked that it was ‘inappropriate to call this planet Earth, when clearly it is ocean.* * (Mulvaney 28). Ocean pollution is growing out of control, and the clean up of our world’s oceans is critical.
Industrial development of the past 200 years has brought immeasurable wealth and prosperity. However, it has also caused unintended eco- logical degradation and pollution (Shrivastava, 1995). Pollution is defined as “the introduction of contaminants into the natural environment that causes adverse changes (Khamis, 2017). Pollution is a worldwide problem that affects humans on a day-day basis causing disastrous and deleterious effects that eventually lead to loss of life. Pollution can be of various types; it can be in form of chemical energy, light, heat, noise. These are referred to as pollutants and most are as a result of human activities. The drastic effect of these activities greatly endangers life and has a lasting impact on the sustainability of the environment. This is why the issue of pollution is of utmost importance to every individual as it will affect the quality of life of the human race if its rapid progression is not curtailed.
Pollution is, and has always been, a major issue in the world. It has affected the world on such an immense level that it is considered to be one of the main FUTURE challenges (SIKM 1). Pollution is the improper disposal of trash and waste items in an environment along with the admissions of chemicals. Though this seems like a minor situation, the disposal of trash builds up and contaminates the earth throughout time. There are 3 types of pollution; Trash (solid wastes), air/carbon, and water (occasionally noise/sound) (Uddin 1). In the past decade, pollution rates increased; some believe that it has something to do with the population rates as well. Overpopulation and the continuous population growth have contributed greatly to the earth’s human impact. Heavily overpopulated areas are considerably more corrupt because of their effects in the environment and their carelessness toward their own problems. (Cassils 2). As the numbers go up, so does the need for producing goods, the use of motorized vehicles, and the operation of buildings and
The modern 21st century has blessed the human race with the increasing trend of industrialization. The industrialization has gifted human beings with uncountable facilities and privileges. Yet, there are certain aspects which do not go in favor of human beings and are detrimental to the overall society. Among these unfavorable points, environmental pollution is the biggest issue (Newbold, 2010). Keeping in view the criticality of this issue and need of clean and healthy
For millions of years, all organisms have relied and survived on what the planet provides but in the last century industries have peaked and its production was the highest during the last ten years These industries produce carbon monoxide causing many problems for the earth's health like global warming and pollution. Although there is help for pollution reduction not enough is being done to preserve the earth’s natural resources-air,water, and soil.
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.
Pollution is a nationwide habit that has caused distress among the environment and its inhabitants. This is a serious complication that we as people need to take a stand to develop solutions to prevent contaminating the our water systems, environments, air, and soil. Everyday we witness pollution or participate in polluting our country with our daily tasks. Pollution causes unexpected and devastating changes in our land, river and sea environments(“Reduce Pollution”). Pollution got my attention because of how extremely devastating it is to our world. Its effects include deliberately impressing our country with diseases, birth youth defects, and destroying the ecosystem. What actions can citizens of the United States take to prevent the
Pollution is the introduction of harmful substances or products into the environment (Pollution, 2017). Ever since we were born there has always been a problem with harmful things on our planet. Humans have tried an enormous amount of ideas trying to help the planet. Adults tell the young kids to always recycle or to help the Earth by planting a tree. Those two ideas are spread around the entire world, but there are certain things going around that are not helping the Earth. They are called pollutants. For example, some are water, air, soil, thermal, radiative, noise and light pollution. With all of these pollutants there are many causes of each.
Did you know that cutting down trees as deforestation is a form of pollution? According to the article Top 10 Causes Of Environmental Damage, deforestation is the second most leading polutionizer in the world today. The first reason for pollution is the high amounts of gasses released into the atmosphere. These gasses are the main culprit for ozone holes and global warming, as they release Co2, So2, NH3, and many other harmful gasses. Among these two main culprits for harsh pollution comes with a lot of side effects from these human made disasters such as environmental pollution, environmental impact, and environmental disasters.
The environmental issue I choose is pollution. There is different types of pollution. There is water pollution, air pollution, soil pollution, thermal pollution, radioactive pollution, noise pollution, and light pollution. Every type of pollution is bad and it is causing health issues and even worst, deaths. Pollution is A very serious subject that is harmful to people and the environment. It is killing A lot of people. 4.6 million people die each year from pollution. Each year 1.2 trillion gallons of untreated sewage, stormwater, and industrial waste are dumped into US water.Pollution is one of the most biggest global killers affecting over 100 million people. Over 1 million seabirds and 100,000 sea mammals are killed by pollution every year. Approximately 40% of lakes in America are too polluted for fishing, aquatic life, or swimming. Pollution occurs when pollutants contaminate the natural surroundings. Pollution disturbs our ecosystem.
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