urban air quality issues affecting regions in Europe and Asia. Introduction: Air Pollution is a growing problem (Elsom‚ intro) To highlight large disparities in urban air quality problems‚ focus on developed countries like UK with long history in research and policy vs developing countries still in the process of industrialization. Comparisons to show that due to different sources‚ different stage of development and economic structure‚ different effects and policy. But air pollution problems
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The article “Air Pollution Still Harming Europeans health” discussed the impact of urban outdoor air quality the human population. The article addressed the substantial number of low birth weight babies due to the effects of air pollution. Low birth weight is a complex problem because it is not only the cause of adverse health effects but also complex living condition. Children born with low birth weight tend to have decrease lung function and higher incidence of asthma. As the article suggests pollution
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much for your coming. I’m here today to share with you information and my opinion about environmental protection. First‚ l will make a definition about “environmental protection”. Then‚ I will show you the cause of environmental problem—that is pollution. At the same time‚ I will give you some effective methods to solve this problem. At last‚ I will make a conclusion and you can ask me several questions. Well‚ can we start now? I’d like to begin by the meaning of “environmental protection”. In
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Inequality and Environmental Goods and Bads Introduction I grew up in Bakersfield‚ California in the 1990s. I never really thought about pollution‚ or the industrial facility that flanked my elementary school‚ but I was always sick‚ always coughing and stuffy. Later in life I went back to that old school and found that there was an oil tank farm‚ behind a fence‚ right next to the playground. While I have no scientific proof that this was causing my sickness‚ it is probably a bad idea to put
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As of April 2000‚ Houston‚ Texas flunked the air quality test given by the American Lung Association of Texas. The city was carefully being watched because of the alarming reports taken from 1996-1998. Houston ’s smog and ozone levels have now surpassed Los Angeles ’s notorious air pollution problem. They must take advice from this infamously polluted city without slowing down the economic growth of their port city. They could reduce the traffic on the ship channel and the city ’s highways‚ or
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Pollution Uploaded by msnarayana on Oct 13‚ 2012 The earth is a wonderful place which we share with the plants‚ animals and birds. We must preserve the land we live on. A pollutant is any substance which contaminates the air‚ water and land. Pollution is the introduction of harmful substances or products into the environment or harmful changes that occur in the environment due to human actives are pollution. Pollution could be of in air‚ water and land. As these harmful substances‚ gases and quality
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Five environmental Problems of my society are: 1. Air pollution 2. Water pollution. 3. Waste production 4. Loss of Biodiversity 5. Food Supply ➢ Air pollution ➢ INTRODUCTION I:Background Air pollution world wide to human health and the natural environment. .Air pollution may be described as contamination of the atmosphere by gaseous‚ liquid‚ or solid wastes or by-products
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FINAL SPEECH (Persuasive Problem-Solution) Purpose: To inform and persuade your audience that a specific problem exists‚ it is serious‚ and it affects them. Time: 6-8 minutes Topic: Choose a topic that interests you and would probably interest your audience (the class). Consider what your audience already knows about this topic and what their attitude about this topic will be. Do not choose something the audience already knows a lot about. This topic must be presented in a persuasive
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What is air pollution? According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary‚ pollution is defined as " the action of the process of making land‚ water‚ air‚ etc. dirty and not safe or suitable to use." Meaning air pollution can be defined as the means of introducing hazardous materials such as carbon dioxide into the air. Society as a whole should educate themselves about three major causes of air pollution‚ car pollution‚ industrial pollution and pollution from natural causes such as forest fires and volcanic
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Reynaldo Cantú Márquez A01176598 Jesus Mendoza A01207526 Bernardo Maroñas A01176459 “Preservation of our environment is not a liberal or conservative challenge‚ it’s common sense.” -Ronald Reagan.[1] Global warming is the rise of the temperature in air and the major reason of this problem is the drastic increase in the emission of CO2 caused by burning fuels.[2] The rise of the greenhouse gases started around the 1950’s because of the rise of industries and factories. [3] Global warming didn’t start
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