Why is our Pollution Bad? - Essay
Jon Rueff
ENG 112
Bolden
3/4/10
Why is our Pollution Bad?
When we watched An Inconvenient Truth several weeks ago there was a lot of pinpointing factors that came to mind that I didn’t truly understand. When I saw all of the charts of how high global warming is increasing, it really took a second for me to realize how much damage we’re causing to this environment. One point Al Gore made was the amount of travel tourists do in a single year, and how it is effecting our global warming. He put into his own perspective how we need to limit air travel so we can keep this environment safe. I would like to share with you how some scientist and people present themselves and what their particular goal is for this type of issue.
Due to the dangerous emissions airplanes release experts say that the tourism industry is one of the biggest causes of pollution going on in the World. With tourism numbers increasing, more and more people are flying each year, causing more emissions to be released every year. Even with all of this air travel, airplane emissions only account for two percent of total emissions released into the atmosphere. The majority of gasses come from automotive vehicles. This is even scarier, because over one billion people take trips each year by car, and that number is also increasing every year. By 2020, over 1.5 billion people are expected to take a trip by car each year (AFP). This does not bode well for the environment and the steps needed to be taken to create safer cars in effort to save the environment from being destroyed. If we don’t change our manner of travel, tourism will be the cause of these tragedies in the climate changes that will keep coming to the environment. If tourism continues islands will continue to disappear and lakes will get dried up. Fortunately, steps are being taken to limit the amount of gases that are released in the air. The WTO has set limitations on the amount of emissions that can be released.
ENG 112
Bolden
3/4/10
Why is our Pollution Bad?
When we watched An Inconvenient Truth several weeks ago there was a lot of pinpointing factors that came to mind that I didn’t truly understand. When I saw all of the charts of how high global warming is increasing, it really took a second for me to realize how much damage we’re causing to this environment. One point Al Gore made was the amount of travel tourists do in a single year, and how it is effecting our global warming. He put into his own perspective how we need to limit air travel so we can keep this environment safe. I would like to share with you how some scientist and people present themselves and what their particular goal is for this type of issue.
Due to the dangerous emissions airplanes release experts say that the tourism industry is one of the biggest causes of pollution going on in the World. With tourism numbers increasing, more and more people are flying each year, causing more emissions to be released every year. Even with all of this air travel, airplane emissions only account for two percent of total emissions released into the atmosphere. The majority of gasses come from automotive vehicles. This is even scarier, because over one billion people take trips each year by car, and that number is also increasing every year. By 2020, over 1.5 billion people are expected to take a trip by car each year (AFP). This does not bode well for the environment and the steps needed to be taken to create safer cars in effort to save the environment from being destroyed. If we don’t change our manner of travel, tourism will be the cause of these tragedies in the climate changes that will keep coming to the environment. If tourism continues islands will continue to disappear and lakes will get dried up. Fortunately, steps are being taken to limit the amount of gases that are released in the air. The WTO has set limitations on the amount of emissions that can be released.
Bibliography: Works Cited • Channel 24 News station, South Africa(2007)-