I am writing to you today‚ asking if you would join me in trying to reduce pollution in the United States of America in 2017. Pollution is incredibly harmful to the environment‚ world‚ climate‚ and even space. Pollution damages our atmosphere which then creates acid rain and toxins in the air. The 2015 "State of the Air" report finds 52 percent of Americans live in counties with unhealthy levels of air pollution. Pollution starts with littering which can harm many things depending on where litter
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(SPM) Oxides of nitrogen (NOx) Hydrocarbons (HC) Polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) 2005 Air Toxic Emissions from On-road Mobile Sources (Tox-weighted) Affects of Automobile Pollution 1. In India about 15-20 million people are asthmatic because of emission of automobile pollution. 2. N02 is a highly toxic gas and attacks the lungs causing lung cancer and emphysema. 3. Automobile pollutants interferes the development and functioning of the nervous system. 4. Some diseases
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litter everywhere and become plastic pollution. As plastic is buoyant‚ it easily blows from garbage dumps or even flows through river that eventually moves through the sea. According to Australian Marine Conservation Society (2013b)‚ when plastics are in the ocean‚ it will slowly breaks down in to smaller pieces and being eaten by animals that live at the bottom or even to the birds that flies and eat the floating plastic debris. Causes: Plastic pollution is the environmental problem that has
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Background The overuse of plastics in today’s society has become major environmental issue for our oceans. Plastic pollution is the dumping‚ littering‚ or disposing of any type of man-made plastic that has been produced and has ended up in our ocean and has not been recycled. History of Plastic "Plastic" entered the world through chemistry in 1909 and was originally coined to describe Bakelite‚ the first fully synthetic resin. What make’s plastic so unique is when it is heated it can be molded
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Introduction In China‚ an increasing population and rapid economic growth as well as lax environmental oversight have increased water pollution. Therefore‚ deterioration of drinking water quality continues to be a major problem. Continuous emissions from manufacturing are the largest contributor to lowered drinking quality across the country. China’s major river systems exhibit the scope of the problem. Perhaps 70 percent of their water is so polluted that it has been deemed unsafe for human contact
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EARTH The earth is 4.5 billion years old. The Big Bang theory says that there was an explosion caused by the crash of matter which created our Solar System. Millions of years ago‚ during the Paleozoic era‚ the seven continents formed one single super-continent‚ from which they later detached driven by endogenous forces. Mankind appeared on Earth 30000 years ago. According to Darwin organisms which adapt the best to the environment they live in‚ survive the longest. Mankind become the dominant
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Pollution is the introduction of harmful substances or products into the environment. It is a major problem in America and as well as the world. Pollution not only damages the environment‚ but damages us also. It has cause many problems ranging from lung cancer to the greenhouse effect. It is all among us and but we continue to live in our own filth. What is the reason behind this flawed logic? In this paper I will examine the problems and solutions for this issue. Automobiles are undeniable
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A Dominant Community’s Attitudes towards the Teaching of Amazigh (Berber) in Morocco di Mina Afkir Abstract Two linguistically and culturally different communities have been living in Morocco since the Arab-Islamic conquests in the seventh century AD‚ namely the Amazigh-speaking and the Arabic-speaking communities. The language policies that were implemented by the Moroccan government from independence in 1956 till 2001 greatly promoted the Arabic language‚ which
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How to start the butterfly effect On the eve of an American presidential election‚ a party of rich businessmen undertakes a time travel safari to the past to hunt dinosaurs. While the organizers have taken every precaution to minimize the impact of the hunting party on the past‚ one member violates the rules and leaves the designated path. Upon their return to the present the group finds that the world has been drastically altered by the seemingly innocuous death of a pre-historic butterflyTop of
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Light pollution happened slowly at first which was several decades ago it was a process that was hardly noticeable. A light here‚ a light there‚ burning way into the dark nighttime realm‚ helping us see in the darkness when people all their our beds fast asleep. The process still continues today‚ with little thought ever given to what we are stealing away. Our intentions are good but our methods need adjustment‚ and they needs to be done immediately. In fact‚ our methods should have been changed
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