Why Is Today 's World So Polluted?

The environment is permanently damaged because of the burning of coal and fossil fuels. Coal was the leading factor in coal making the production of iron the biggest contribution to pollution. Cities were always dense with smog. Environmental issues we face today have been linked to the industrial revolution. The cities and towns simply didn’t have the resources to support such a large population. Sewerage was emptied into the River Thames or onto the streets; leading to terrible hygiene and poor health. The rise in factory produced goods put small handmade trades out of business and supported commercialism. Most workers were completely unskilled and therefore easily replaceable; meaning there was little job

Pollution has always been an issue within our society. Derrick Jenson and Stephanie McMillan as well as Michael Pollan have all written articles about the issues in our environment and the effects of pollution. We are causing an increasing amount of pollution as time goes on. Virtually everything we do causes some form of damage to the environment and it seems that regardless of how much we want to fix this issue we are making no progress towards a solution. Based on their articles “As The World Burns” and Pollans article “Why Bother” these authors have similar views and yet contrast on many points.

The world is changing, well the environment is. For many years mankind has been finding ways to make Earth easier and liveable,therefore, we have been cutting down various trees, building houses and industries to make Earth more adaptable for humankind.These mass productions are polluting our environment due to the fact that carbon dioxide is being released to the atmosphere. The amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has had a very distructive consequence,Global warming.Global warming started around the 1880’s around 40 years after the Industrial Revolution in America.As a consequence of global warming the climate change on the Earth has had lethal impacts.Humankind has came up with ways to help control the amount of

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.

Initially, charcoal and wood were used a fuel source, but as those resources became scarce, coal became a necessity. As shown in Document 1, England was fortunate enough to have a readily available coal supply that other countries in Europe were not able to have. As England became industrialized, more coal was needed to fuel steam engines and furnaces. The development of factories and the improvement of the steam engine also increased the demand for coal. As a result, coal mines that were once mined at the surface, now got deeper and deeper, and there was too much water to safely get more coal. When the Newcomen engine was put into use at the coal mines, coal was put into the steam engine to pump more coal out. Similarly almost every other piece of technology in that time period used coal as the main fuel source so the need for coal skyrocketed. Document 4 explains how England had the natural conditions necessary to succeed such as coal, which is a major reason the Industrial Revolution started in England and not in any other

However the British used the coal for their trains and to sell to the British Empire. They also used the railroads to flood the markets full of British textiles. Dr Lavani states that the British built 10,000 miles of railroads to connect distant parts of the nation. However they were used to flood the indian market with the british textiles. But this did not help India, if anything it took jobs from the India sells people. Which is why starvation is a big part because they can not afford food. Dr Lavani also states that the british produced 16 million tons of coal a year. However the coal was used to power the trains,and sell coal to the British Empire.The only problem with this is that India gets nothing out of

The problem of pollution comes with the ever expanding human population. With this growing population our demand for products also increases. We live in a consumer society, especially in the United States, and making huge quantities of products generates a large amount of pollution and waste. American citizens love to buy, we represent only 5% of the global population but we use 25% of the world's resources. The unfortunate part is that all the resources we use to make products end up in some landfill somewhere because a huge amount of Americans don't understand the importance of recycling and reducing consumption of products. American citizens throw away 40% of the food they purchase. That number is ridiculous, especially since so many Americans

What are the problems with America currently today? One problem we have faced in America is environmental pollutions. Environmental pollutions are the harmful filth in the air, we breathe everyday. Perhaps we do not notice them as we breathe. Some filth is seen from a far distance. Factory filth is the main pollution producer in the USA now.

The industrial revolution are a new era in the development of human history, people said goodbye to handicrafts economy. Machines such as steam engine were invented and used frequently, this greatly improves production efficiency. The contribution of the industrial revolution to British economic development is obvious, at the end of the 18th century, Great Britain became one of the richest countries in the world. However, under the surface of the booming economy, it planted a dangerous seed. Coal plays an important role in the industrial revolution, it promotes the industrial development and lets the machine run. At the same time, the pollutants that released by the burning of coal have also discharged over London. Coal looks like a British best friend, in 1800, people in London burned total 1 million tons of coal, apportioned to each London resident is about one ton of coal per person. Also, Britain is the largest coal producer in Europe, its annual production is 22.9 billion tons. At that time, the UK produces far more coal than other European countries such as Germany and France. However, British people are not concerned about the increase in coal consumption. In

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

Pollution has become a prevalent issue worldwide and has begun to affect the air used to breathe, the soil used to grow food, and the water used to drink. All of these effects result in commonly occurring destruction of health and wildlife that one may have seen on the news or heard from peers. In order to live, one needs food, water, clothing, and shelter. If the water and food that society consumes gets contaminated, a major component of life has been eradicated, which can only have negative consequences. If more people are educated as to what effects the environment, the world has a chance to counteract the effects of pollution. The main causes of pollution are the burning of fossil fuels such as with car exhausts, littering as a result of societal norms and laziness, and factory waste as a result of lax waste regulation, and can result in mass destruction of the environment and catastrophic effects on the everyday lives of contemporary people.

Our society is to blame for the constant contaminations being brought onto nature. The design of cradle to cradle is a great place to start in making a change in the excess waste; however, this will not be enough to make a change. I believe society has to be forced to realize what is actually happening to our planet. Landfills are over stocked with waste, our water resources are being purposely contaminated and will one day run dry. The reflexive modernization theory needs to be renegotiated by our government to create a balance in society and the environment. Our planet will continue to fall until the population is forced to make a change in the treatment of the environment or else there will not be a future of the

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

I'm going to start off my essay by talking about "earth pollution". There are seven different types of earth pollution. Starting of with water pollution and air pollution, I think these would be the most common and prevalent forms of earth pollution. Water and air are both extremely important to the enviroment. The rest is, soil pollution, thermal pollution, radioactive pollution, noise pollution and light pollution. There is also air pollution that works in a green house infect. Which can warm up the earth. The green house affect can be caused by sulfur dioxide and carbon dioxide. Soil pollution is caused by, " Human made chemicals or other alternation in the natural soil environment". It is meanly caused by agricultural chemicals, industrial stuff and people who do not take good care of their trash. An example of this is (littering). Thermal pollution is a process that changes water quality for the worse by the water tempter. The main way that thermal pollution is active, is by big "Power Plants" using water as a coolant. Radioactive pollution is when are there radioactive particles in the air, and this is caused by human actions. It is accidental or on tentonal . Noise pollution is basically where there is a lot of noise that people just do not want. It can even damage stuff like your hearing not being able to sleep as well and it can cause high stress levels, and it has more effects than that. When I first saw noise pollution as one of the seven different types of earth pollution I thought it was kind of weird, but now that I looked in to it, it makes more sence. For the last one of the seven types of earth pollution (which is Light pollution) I decided to take a closer look at it then the others. So, I watched a documentary about light pollution. Light pollution is when a lot of lights, mainly coming from big cities, this is bad because it makes it harder to see the stars. What makes so you can't see the stars is light that shines up on dust particles. In the past people lite things up with torches or lamps but now all over the world people are lighting things up with electrice lights. Astronomers have noticed that when they want to get a good look at the night sky they have to go farther away from big

The rest of the world is still living the ways of the past by only producing enough energy for life. While the industrialized world is producing gases that not only hurt their nation’s inhabitants, but the rest of the world inhabitants as well. Inhabitants are not just humans, but animals and plants that make up the world. With increasing gas emissions the powerful nations of the world are making a weaker world environment.