of increased gases and particles associated with transportation‚ industrial activities‚ smoking‚ dust storms from over grazing on marginal land‚ bush fires and the burning fossil fuels . Many of these activities cause increases in carbon monoxide‚ ozone‚ sulphur dioxide‚ nitrogen dioxide‚ lead and particles in the atmosphere. People get health problems due to these increases. For example‚ excessive carbon monoxide levels in the blood stream reduce its ability to transport oxygen. This in turn causes
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Malaysia. He has given me tips on reducing the pollution. Firstly‚ we must not do open burning. Do stop a person who is doing so because that can reduce the smoke from blending into the air and thus getting into our lungs. Open burning can cause the ozone layer to be thinner. Then‚ the conventional car‚ which uses an internal engine‚ is one of the biggest sources of pollution‚ considering that there are 700 million of these cars in the world. As a car owner‚ you have the responsibility of minimizing
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Superfreakonomics Superfreakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner lures the reader into finding a new way of looking at everyday situations from an economical standpoint. From linking prostitutes to seasonal mall Santa Clauses to discovering a cure for cancer‚ anyone looking to gain a new perspective or find pure entertainment should read Superfreakonomics because of its strategy of intertwining humor with the hard statistics found through hours of research. Although the research provided
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come up with some solutions. It’s sort of like putting a Band-Aid on a mortal wound‚ but for any success‚ there must be a beginning. The world is no longer a vast expanse of unchartered frontier but a microcosm of people living together under one ozone layer and sharing from one bread basket. We cannot practice isolationism in a world so full of technology that Chernobyl’s fallout affects the milk production in Scandinavia and the burning wells of the Kuwait desert can be seen from outer space.
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The Air We Breathe Air pollution is an issue that is often talked about‚ but never seen. If you can’t see it it’s not a big deal‚ right? Wrong. While people tend to think that air pollution only affects the ozone layer‚ it affects us more than we think. Air pollution is a leading cause in sicknesses‚ diseases and cancers among humans of all ages. Air pollution is an undercover issue that causes more harm to us than we can understand. According to The 11th Hour‚ 30 to 60 percent of school children
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many of them can be executed by any one. Environmental problems have become so complex that many individuals feel they can have no effect on them. Problems like oil spills‚ hazardous waste‚ loss of rain forests‚ endangered species‚ acid rain‚ the ozone layer‚ the municipal waste crisis can feel out of our control. At the very least‚ these problems require group and corporate action or government intervention. However‚ there are some things the individual can control. Our waste reduction and recycling
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it is not needed and destroying the rainforest. The animals are been force into the city due to them destroying their habitats. The overall impact is that by knocking down the trees we are depriving our oxygen an all living things as well as the ozone layer in our environment. My TPP will guide individual in the right direction to plant and try to save the environment. My Aim is to have the Schools and Communities to learn the importance of planting trees‚ and to focus on the 10 activities of
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pollution One of the power plants that gives out the most pollution is the power plant that is fired by coal. Coal burning is a leading cause of smog‚ acid rain‚ and toxic air pollution. Not only that‚ it also causes the greenhouse effect and holes in the ozone layer. Health Effects Air pollution can affect our health in many ways with both short-term and long-term effects. Some individuals are much more sensitive to pollutants than are others. Young children and elderly people often suffer more from the
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We must have heard the clichés that money is not everything and money cannot buy everything. Imagine yourself to live without money‚ how are you going to be happy when you cannot even make a life? Perhaps‚ money is not everything and we cannot buy everything with money‚ but money increases our life chances. I wish I had a lot of money so that I have the chance to help my family‚ build an orphanage and help in saving the mother earth. My family especially my parents‚ had been my backbone. They worked
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Air Pollution Index (API) is the conversion of ambient respirable suspended particulates (RSP)‚ sulphur dioxide (SO2)‚ carbon monoxide (CO)‚ ozone (O3) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) concentration measured at the air quality monitoring network to a scale of 0 to 500. The lower the level‚ the better quality of air we can breathe. If the index is above 100‚ there will be an adverse acute health effect to human. The number of days which had a record of API 100 or above keeps increasing these years‚ which
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