Implications for the Future Paper In 1996‚ Paramount pictures made a movie called “A Civil Action” from one of the best-selling books by Jonathan Harr. The author depicts the real-life incidence where water played a factor of life and death in this small town of Woburn‚ Massachusetts. The premise of the movie starts with one child being diagnosed with a rare disease known as leukemia. Then more and more people to include the children were getting diagnosed with leukemia. One of the mothers decides
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” ― Gary Snyder “Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.” ― Edward O. Wilson There’s so much pollution in the air now that if it weren’t for our lungs there’d be no place to put it all. ~Robert Orben Don’t blow it - good planets are hard to find. ~Quoted in Time We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. ~Thomas Fuller‚ Gnomologia‚ 1732 We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors‚ we borrow it from our children. ~Native American
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Pollution Human beings have always caused some environmental pollution. Since prehistoric times‚ people have created waste. Like garbage today‚ this waste was either burned‚ tossed into waterways‚ buried‚ or dumped aboveground. However‚ the waste of early peoples was mostly food scraps and other substances that broke down easily by natural decay processes. Prehistoric populations were also much smaller and were spread out over large areas. As a result‚ pollution was less concentrated and caused
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2) Water pollution: Water pollution causes due to the introduction of chemical‚ biological and all sort of physical matter into large bodies of water that degrade the quality of life that lives in it and consumes it. We can blame fertilizers‚ pesticides‚ or petroleum derivatives for water pollution. In addition to that the other contributors towards water pollution are Waste treatment facilities‚ mining‚ Pesticides‚ herbicides and fertilizers‚ oil spills‚ refiners‚ Failing septic systems‚ factories
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Environmental pollution is the biggest menace to the human race on this planet today. The environment consists of earth‚ water‚ air‚ plants and animals. If we pollute the environment‚ the existence of man and nature will be hampered. Although most of people know that but they still destroy their own life. There a numerous kinds of environment pollution. However‚ I split it to 3 groups: water pollution‚ air pollution and soil pollution. Nowadays‚ the water of rivers and sea all over the worlds is
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Pollution Introduction Pollution is the introduction of contaminants into the natural environment that cause adverse change.[1] Pollution can take the form of chemical substances or energy‚ such as noise‚ heat or light. Pollutants‚ the components of pollution‚ can be either foreign substances/energies or naturally occurring contaminants. Pollution is often classed as point source or nonpoint source pollution. The Blacksmith Institute issues an annual list of the world’s worst polluted places. In
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Water is never ’pure’ in a chemical sense. It contains various kinds of impurities such as dust particles‚ dissolved gases‚ dissolved minerals‚ microscopic paints and animals‚ suspended impurities and bacteria. These are natural impurities derived from the atmosphere‚ catchments area and soil. Besides this‚ there are various other reasons by which water i9 polluted. The upland surface water derives its impurities from the catchments area‚ the sources being human habitations and animal keeping
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Pollution is the introduction of contaminants into the natural environment that cause adverse change.Pollution can take the form of chemical substances or energy‚ such as noise‚ heat or light. Pollutants‚ the components of pollution‚ can be either foreign substances/energies or naturally occurring contaminants. Pollution is often classed as point source or nonpoint source pollution. Pollution is nothing but "too much of something at wrong place" and environmental pollution is generally defined
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Pollution This swan is breeding on a heap of plastic Littering on a beach in Guyana Pollution is when something is added to the environment that is harmful or poisonous to living things. Smoke in the air from factories is a type of pollution as it is bad for the lungs when breathed in. Sewage in drinking water is another type of pollution‚ as it can make people ill because it contains germs and viruses. People living next to a building site where there is too much noise can become sick as
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Pollution Introduction Pollution is when water‚ air or land becomes very dirty. Pollution can come in 4 different types effecting different types of areas in the world. Air pollution affects the air‚ water pollution affects the water and marine life‚ land pollution effects the land destroying life and the environment and there is also noise pollution that can effect our hearing. We all contribute to pollution in some way or another. Whether it be with a large amount or small amount we can still
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