AIR POLLUTION AND CLIMATIC CHANGES Introduction: Air pollution is actually the addition of any harmful substances to the atmosphere‚ which causes the damaging of the environment‚ human health and the quality of life. Air pollution has been a serious problem throughout the history. This can have series effect on the health of human beings. Every day‚ the average person inhales about 20‚000 liters of air. Every time when we breathe in we inhale dangerous substances. These dangerous substances can
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Strong January 28th‚ 2011 Assignment 1 STRESSED OUT Being one of the biggest social issues in Los Angeles‚ Air pollution has two main reasons: vehicle traffic and population growth. Actually‚ it is in a such crucial level that scientists indicate that air pollution in Los Angeles may endanger peoples lives. Scientific researches show that the air pollution causes cancer and have an impact on pregnant woman. Advertisements shows us some solutions like making public transportation
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countries‚ the history of air pollution problem has typically been high levels of smoke and sulphur dioxide arising from the combustion of sulphur-containing fossil fuels such as coal for domestic and industrial purpose.[i] Industrial development and the use of fossil fuels have affected the world climate adversely. In Nigeria epileptic power supply has brought about the use of diesel and petrol powered generators virtually in all homes 2. The transport induced environmental pollution in Nigeria‚ is further
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Air and water pollution affect the biotic and abiotic environment on a global scale. All pollutants affect individuals in different ways‚ but mainly affect those with asthma or underlying respiratory conditions. Transportation and energy consumption are the biggest contributors to pollution and global warming. With world population on the rise‚ carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is also climbing a steep hill. CO2‚ a primary air pollutant‚ is the most major concern amongst environmental scientists‚
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Air pollution concentrations have been rapidly increasing in the major urban areas of Brazil caused mainly by the increasing use of vehicles. Policies to control car emissions in Brazil have relied basically on mandatory emission standards and subsidies for specific cleaner technology resulting in substantial decrease of car emission rates. Nevertheless‚ taxes on car sales‚ differentiated by vehicles’ size and fuel‚ have also influenced car emission patterns. This paper analyses the compliance
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Causes and Effects of Air Pollution. Earth is everybody’s home and nobody likes to live in a dirty home. Of all the changes swirling among us‚ those that affect the natural environment seems to hold the most serious implication for human life. From a long period of time‚ people have been polluting the earth surface‚ but because of earth’s own ability to absorb and purify minor quantities of pollutants‚ the problem has been minimal. It is significant
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Air pollution is caused by humans. Smog and ozone layer depletion are two major causes. They are both toxics in the air that humans create and toxics that effect humans as well. Smog is caused by so many different chemicals that ranges from things like automobile exhaust to hairspray. It affects humans mainly in the circulatory and respiratory systems which are both very important and crucial to survive. Ozone layer depletion is a very serious decline of gas in the ozone layer which is bad because
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Air Pollution Nikki Smith SCI/275 10/05/2010 Did you know that certain human activities are the primary source of pollution? Pollution can be caused by numerous things rather they are living or non living. In order to ensure that air pollution does not get out of control; a plan will need to be put in to motion. Air Pollution is another major problem that has not be resolved. It is known that an issue of the magnitude like air pollution cannot be resolved over night. It is stated that
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vehicles. Carbon monoxide that release from the vehicles can cause health problems like coughing -use public transport Taking a bus or train to work‚ school or any other activity has a lot of advantages. Aside from doing your part to reduce air pollution‚ you’ll have extra time to read‚ knit‚ do crosswords‚ or people watch. Taking public transportation is also safer than driving‚ and will probably help reduce your anxiety level since you won’t have to deal with rush hour traffic. -ride bicycle
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Air Pollution Nicole Ergler Axia University of Phoenix Robert Orben once said “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.” Did one ever think of how much pollution they are breathing in every day? Does one ever realize in what ways they are contributing to air pollution?Air pollution is environmentally a global catastrophe. However‚ the human population does not have the correct knowledge of how to help the environment from
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