Angelika Cortes Community Issue: Pollution Do you hate seeing rubbish in the street? My topic is all about pollution. Pollution is a problem in Hawaii because it cause health problems‚ water gets polluted by throwing of chemicals in river and other bodies of water and land gets polluted because of too much wastes from industry. My first reason is because it can cause health problems. According to National Geographic‚ lung inflammation can develop when people are exposed to ongoing particulate
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1. Introduction Every people in the world expect and deserve a clean‚ healthy environment‚ not just for ourselves‚ but to pass on to future generations. In achieving this‚ many have been done by every country leader. The New Zealand government for example‚ has set standards so that everyone in New Zealand country has clean air to breathe‚ clean water to drink and clean land to live on. The standard known as “national environmental standards” ‚ it covers air quality standard; sources of human drinking
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Air Pollution in Hong Kong In recent years‚ air pollution has become one of the top concerns of Hong Kong’s‚ which led to the rise of various environmentally friendly campaigns such as Action Blue Sky and Clean Air Charter brought forth by the government. However‚ it is still not uncommon to find the internationally well-known Victoria Harbour being veiled in a cloud of gloomy air with many skyscrapers barely visible at times. What is worrying is that the aforementioned measures seem to be ineffective
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Introduction With the great concern surrounding the destruction of the earth’s atmosphere due to air pollution‚ the immediate and direct harm caused to the human body is often over shadowed. While many are aware that our careless use of hazardous chemicals and fossil fuels may leave the planet uninhabitable in the future‚ most over look the fact that they also cause real damage to our bodies at this moment. Such pollutants cause damage to our respiratory system‚ leading to the fluctuation of the
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Causes of Air Pollution Harm from air pollution was first exposed when fires were built in poorly ventilated caves. Since then pollution of the earth’s surface has dramatically increased. Lately‚ ecological pollution harms have been neighboring and slight because of our own planets ability to take in and clean minor quantities of pollutants. The industrialization of civilization‚ motorized vehicles being introduced‚ and the rapid growth of the population‚ is factors contributing toward the growing
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTING LAWS HISTORY Environmental concerns and conflicts have surfaced throughout human history‚ from the earliest settlements to the latest headlines. This comes as a surprise to many people because our emphasis in history has all too often been on war and politics‚ rather than environment‚ culture and development. The evidence for a longstanding concern for environmental issues has been readily available in manuscripts‚ publications and historical archives. It can be found
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Contents Advice for care home managers and staff 2 What are the risks? The effects of heat on health 3 Further information 5 2 Supporting vulnerable people before and during a heatwave – Advice for care home managers and staff Advice for care home managers and staff Severe heat is dangerous to everyone‚ ESPECIALLY OLDER and DISABLED PEOPLE‚ AND THOSE LIVING IN CARE HOMES. During a heatwave‚ when temperatures remain abnormally high for longer than a couple of days‚ it can prove fatal
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Unit 4 – Pure‚ Per Se and Natural Monopolies Individual Project Sometimes market activities (production‚ buying‚ and selling) have unintended positive or negative effects outside the market’s scope. These are called externalities. As a policy maker concerned with correcting the effects of gases and particulates emitted by and local power plant‚ answer the following questions: * What two policies could you use to reduce the total amount of emissions? * Per our text book‚ the gases
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Air pollution in India is a serious issue with the major sources being fuelwood and biomass burning‚ fuel adulteration‚ vehicle emission and traffic congestion.[1][2] India has a low per capita emissions of greenhouse gases but the country as a whole is the third largest after China and the United States.[3] A 2013 study on non-smokers has found that Indians have 30% lower lung function compared to Europeans.[4] The Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act was passed in 1981 to regulate air
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The Nose Files: Common Household Odors Bad smells in and around the home are unavoidable‚ but they are completely removable and treatable. When the right technique and product are used‚ your home and everything in it can smell fresh and odor free once again or until another round of bad odor comes. But taking care of the problem greatly depends on the smell in question. So the first step to getting rid of odor is to determine what it is and what’s causing the stink. Common Household Odors Does it
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