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    Overpopulation Increasing Pollution The earth we live on hasn’t grown since humans first appeared on it, however our population hasn’t stopped growing. Recently the population has increased so fast, in the time it took you to read this sentence another person was born. This is becoming a serious problem for many reasons such as loss of freshwater, species extinction, depletion of natural resources, increased global warming and climate change and increased pollution. All of these problems are equally

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    that encouraged change, but that change was not always a good one. The period of rapid industrial growth during the 1800s and into the early 1900s was more harmful because pollution, poor working conditions and labor strikes (Homestead Strike, Haymarket Affair, Pullman Strike). The Industrial Revolution caused a lot of pollution from the factories and coal. The following quote,

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    traffic jam and they are facing the traffic as a major issue. Although some people support the traffic jam in Los Angeles, there are many people believe that traffic jam is a global issue, and it causes many problems such as wasting time, and air pollution especially in Los Angeles. Traffic jams are feared and hate by many due to the challenges like wasting time. While traveling from one place to the other one always wishes to reach the destination early enough, but in the case of the traffic

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    Introduction Air pollution is produced by different means, but one of the biggest producers of air pollution are factories, vehicles, and from burning things in general. Air pollution is caused by vehicle emission because while they are burning fossil fuels they are releasing a chemical called nitrogen dioxide, which has a possibility of causing harm to the human body. Factories cause air pollution by using exhaust vents is the working area in order to remove any chemical fumes from the workplace

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    Emissions Pollution Charles Dickens wrote about the dirty conditions of London, England by saying, "Smoke lowering down from chimney pots, making a soft black drizzle, with flakes of soot in it as big as full-grown snowflakes – gone into mourning, one might imagine, for the death of the sun . . . Fog everywhere . . . fog down the river, where it rolls defiled among the tiers of shipping, and the waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city" (Qtd. Langone 28). The problem with the air back in

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    Affected and benefited population It is very hard to believe someone actually benefits from China’s air pollution, but it is true. For those companies that manufacture filter masks and air purifications products, they make dibs on the air pollution. Air purifiers market will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 18% during 2016 to 2021, according to TechSci Research Report. Those who can afford the price would like to install purifiers at homes, schools, offices, subway stations, airports and

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    states, have a drastic effect upon more and more people each year. Many people believe that this is because each generation gets weaker than the one before; for example, about a year or so ago, there was a discussion about whether or not they should put air conditioning on school buses because children were passing out from the intense heat, many of adults from previous generation thought that the kids just needed to toughen up and that they had survived the heat growing up. That may be true, but school

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    Earth's Population

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    be living in urban areas (Leen). With people flooding into cities at such a fast rate there are many threats to be dealt with. The two most pressing ones are, poverty and environmental decay. The increased demands of urban life can lead to air and water pollution, high-energy consumption and garbage

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    transportation tools can only run from burning the fossil fuels as its primary energy, which is a process that emits harmful gasses that will affect all our surroundings and us directly and in-directly on any scale. In a smaller scale, car emission causes air pollution that will affect our well-being; on a larger scale, car emission is one of the main contributors that causes climate change that will affect the entire globe and all life forms on the planet. In this essay we will be

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    Emissions and pollution is doing to the Earth. Carbon Pollution What exactly is Carbon Emissions? Carbon Emissions also known as Carbon Pollution, which is pollution through the production of Co2 (Carbon Dioxide). With the increase production of carbon emissions from industrial activity and general car emissions is now start to harm the environment, which is resulting in environmental disasters from rising sea levels from the melting of the ice caps. Another type of pollution is air pollutant,

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