Pollution As An Environmental Problem

Pollution is one of the most concerning topics to talk about in today's modern world. It acts as a poison for anything that lives and breathes; it could toxify water, air, land, humans, and animals, and is not to be taken lightly.

Pollution can cause changes in the planet’s energy balance, such as changes in the greenhouse effect, which affects the amount of heat retained by Earth’s atmosphere, variations in the sun’s energy reaching Earth changes in the reflectivity of Earth’s atmosphere and surface. The changes have changed the climate many times which have an effect on humans also. (NRC EPA. 2010) Our planet can is good at reusing waste but humans are producing more than what the Earth can handle. Pollution happened at different stages and it has an impact on all living things including species and humans. Unfortunately, humans are the most polluting species.

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.

In today’s society, environmental problems are a big problem that plague our world. These detrimental changes are creating astonishing problems for every living organism. Global warming is not a myth. Glaciers are rapidly melting, ecosystems are being destroyed, trees are being cut down for profit, and the globe is warming up and changing our normal climate. Everyone is a contributor to these changes, whether it is a big contribution or a small one. Big businesses and governments all around the world are contributing to the increase in pollution. Factories release chemical waste into our air, and oceans which over time causes holes in our ozone layer. This is not a small easily reversible problem. Chemical air pollution causes problems to not only our environment, but to all the species living on this earth.

For hundreds of thousands of years, humans have been polluting the planet. From leaving scraps of animal they killed, to us, now, throwing trash out the window. By the 1800s, people began to understand that unsanitary living conditions and water contamination contributed to disease epidemics (US Department of Commerce). Pollution is the presence in or introduction into the environment of a substance or thing that has harmful or poisonous effects. There are many different types of pollution: air, water, soil, radioactive, noise, and light. Many of these types of pollution are because of human interaction, although, natural destruction is also a contributor. It has became a growing and deadly issue. Pollution has harmed and continues to harm the land, animals and humans through many different outlets. Is there a way to slow it down, reverse the damage, make the land healthy again?

Pollution exists because of increasing human population. The increase of populations has led to pollution as long ago as the Middle Ages when unsanitary conditions were directly linked to epidemics such as the Bubonic plague that killed millions of people. By the 1800’s, in the U.S., water and air pollution had

Pollution has been a growing problem since the rapid evolution of technology after the Industrial Revolution, which contaminated Earth with its byproducts of harmful chemicals and an ever growing pile of trash. From harmful chemicals in the air to plastic floating in the ocean, pollution has contaminated the very world we have been living in, slowly creating a bleak future for the new generations to come. I was a young child, unaware of the danger of just breathing the air and how dirty the world has become over the last few hundred years. Eventually, a life-threatening event changed that view forever and urged me to take a stance on the topic of pollution, changing my views and having a huge impact on my future. Before long, I had become an advocate of preventing the pollution of our wonderful home, Earth.

Pollution comes in many different types. Those various types are water, air, chemical, noise and light pollution. All the pollutants are worsened every day. They are spread all around the world every second. All of these pollutants lead to illness and death of many ecosystems. Without the overall focalization on the issues of pollution, it can cause the pollution to spread more rapidly and in turn, the death to all ecosystems, including the earth.

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.

Whether or not our environment is polluted is detrimental to every living human in the world and all the animals that haven’t yet been extinct, like others have been, due to our negligence as a people to our beautiful earth. The most immense damage to our environment is caused by an assortment of things, the most damaging paraphernalia are; fossil fuels (which is the most consumed form of energy concentration), which ties into air pollution (smog hanging over cities), and of course littering or the improper disposal of waste. In order to tidy up and secure our planet before it is worsened, we need to make the world well aware of the harm that pollution has caused to every living thing. We need guaranteed solutions to the mess we’ve created in order to overcome and fix the tragedy of our current state of abuse to our earth.

The history of pollution goes back to the Middle Age when the disease like cholera or “Black Death” broke out all over the world and a lot of people were killed because of this. After that by 1800, people finally realized that all of the tragedy were caused by the human and animal waste that they put in the environment. In other words, pollutants. However, people didn’t take this serious. In the middle of 18th century, along with the industrial revolution and the invention of the steam engine, the new type of pollution which has been known as Air pollution came out. Finally, people were aware of the danger of pollution, they created the laws that normally called the Clean Water Act and the Clean Air Act in the 19th century. According to the author, “These laws have significantly reduced the amount of pollution released into the environment.”. Nonpoint Source

In recent years, we often hear and use the word "ecology", but one can hardly assume that everyone understands him correctly. About even the experts argue what meaning people should invest in this concept. In the meantime, they argue, laymen have realized such ecological minimum: it means - to breathe clean air, drink clean water, eat food without nitrates and glow in the dark. The term "ecology" (from the Greek "oikos" - a house, dwelling place, and "logos" - science) was provided in 1866 by the German zoologist Ernst Haeckel, who introduced it into use to refer to "general science about the organisms and their environment.

The environmental pollution history is as old as life itself. At life’s beginning on Earth, man discovered the use of fire and burnt food for cooking food with the emitted smoke from it being the earliest environmental pollutants of this world. First forward to the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century and that was when the Earth experienced the highest rates of environmental pollution. After the machine invention from printing press and later motor vehicles, the pollution menace started enveloping the environment and negative effects began to be seen. The unplanned industrialization, mostly in the developed nations, stimulated its spread. Together with the amazing advancements in technology, the 19th century’s Industrial Revolution

For many centuries, environmental pollution had been a fact of life but it transforms to a real problem when industrial revolution began. Environmental pollution is described to be the contamination of the physical and biological components of the earth/atmosphere system to such an extent that normal environmental processes are adversely affected according to Kemp (1998).

Pollution being the most effective terminator for our environment, which effectively does its homework in four different modes viz. Air, water, soil/land and sound. Air pollution which is pretty prominent & has various incarnations. It’s arsenal include oxides of carbon, nitrogen, sulphur, particulates , Volatile organic compound, particulates etc. The emissions from the chimneys, exhausts & vehicles all contribute in tainting the air, the ballistic use of the aerosol cans, refrigerators, air conditioners has flooded the atmosphere with the CFSs which phagocytize the ozone layer, thereby making organisms more prone to the harmful UV radiations from the sun. The perpetuations of the release of oxides of Carbon especially Carbon dioxide has resulted in green house effect which has caused Global warming thereby increasing the average temperature of the earth. These can have severe repercussions of that of posing a threat to submerge small islands, drastically increasing the fraction of water; it could also strangle the living conditions for the polar bears, penguins and other Antarctic region animals. While the oxides of sulfur and nitrogen help in reducing the pH of water vapor in the atmosphere making it acidic resulting in acid rain. Smoke emitted combines with fog to form the venomous smog. All these are nocuous to the mankind. They