Pop punk is a fusion genre of music that combines punk rock with pop elements. It also ruins the world. From Blink-182 to the Offspring, this particular genre of music is ultimately destroying life due to several factors. These factors include, but are not limited to, leather pants, smoking cigarettes, and the drive to concerts.
Many members of pop punk bands often wear leather pants, such as Sum 41’s very own Deryck Whibley. Leather, generally, comes from the hide of a cow. Pop punk music kills cows. Cows are slaughtered for their hide in slaughterhouses. An environmental impact the animal processing industry has is due to the discharge of wastewater in slaughterhouses. The release of wastewater pollutes the clean water around. Wastewater may cause a strong reduction of the amount of dissolved oxygen, which leads to poor activity levels or even death in aquatic life. Macronutrients from the wastewater also may cause excessive eutrophication in lakes, leading to an overwhelming amount of algae that will also kill off aquatic life.
Often times members of the pop punk scene can be found smoking for either social purposes or to take off a bit of the edge. For example, Dexter Holland (the Offspring’s front man) has been captured in many photos smoking. Most of the smoke from a cigarette doesn’t get sucked down into a smoker’s lungs, but rather escapes into the air, where it can be inhaled by any unfortunate passerbyer. This is called “secondhand smoke.”
Tobacco contains over 4,000 toxic chemical compounds, and 50 of which are known to cause cancer. There is no safe amount of exposure to secondhand smoke. Secondhand smoke exposure causes nearly 50,000 deaths in adult nonsmokers in the U.S. each year and about 46,000 nonsmokers who live with smokers die each year from lung disease caused by secondhand smoke. Cancer is another consequence of secondhand smoke, and also the most significant. Lung cancer is the most