Pollutants in the air threaten the lives of everything living on earth. They cause acid rain and smog‚ weaken the ozone layer‚ increase the chances of cancer and contribute to changing the climate of the world. Pollutants can be invisible and often we don’t even realize that we’re making them. Polluted air travels with the wind‚ affecting all of us‚ whether or not we are responsible for it. Smog aggravates heart and respiratory diseases. Acid rain erodes buildings‚ hurts plants and trees and
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Air Pollution Are you doing everything you can do to live a long and healthy life‚ eating healthy‚ exercising? Well that might not be enough‚ everyday the air you breathe can reduce life expectancy by 2 to 3 years; and an estimated total number of 6.3 million deaths caused by air pollution (Air Pollution kills). Air pollution has been going on for years and takes many forms‚ it is harming our environment and killing us slowly; in order to solve this problem the people of the world need to start
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warfare and testing. Then a non-nuclear event‚ The Great Smog of 1952 in London‚ killed at least 4000 people.[ This prompted some of the first major modern environmental legislation‚ The Clean Air Act of 1956. Pollution began to draw major public attention in the United States between the mid-1950s and early 1970s‚ when Congress passed the Noise Control Act‚ the Clean Air Act‚ the Clean Water Act and the National Environmental Policy Act. Smog Pollution in Taiwan Severe incidents of pollution helped
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Ecologically‚ Economically & Globally Automobiles have transformed our planet. There are positive and negative outcomes in all new technological innovations‚ new to the world products‚ and within product line extensions. Automobiles have a severe impact on society’s daily needs of transportation‚ their profit margin capabilities for corporations‚ and seemingly cover our globe. Considering these standards‚ innovators tend to shy away from implementing modernism of transportation. There are simple
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nuclear fuel is smoke free; thus‚ protecting the environment from the serious implications of the gaseous residuals like Carbon Dioxide (CO2)‚ Sulfur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen oxides that are major contributors to global warming‚ acidic rain and smog‚ respectively. Global warming
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would benefit all life by keeping our ozone layer safe. Residents living near a freeway are also prone to diseases like lung cancer because of the smog and other harmful toxins emitted into the air by vehicles; especially diesels. Air pollution is caused by noxious fumes mixing into the air we breathe‚ and it isn’t new news. In London 1952‚ the Great Smog killed over 8‚000 civilians. This comes to show how malnourished our planet has been for
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Do you know any information about the geography of North America? North America is continents with Canada and the United States. North America is a large continent‚ so it has innumerable physical features and there are various cultures. Also‚ the United States and Canada have similar cultures. Physical features and cultures shape North America. High mountains and long rivers can change people’s way of life and make some regions to be agricultural. There is the diversity of physical features in North
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breathable atmosphere over towns and cities; indeed‚ large chimneys push the pollution further up into the atmosphere avoiding any fallout to local inhabitants. Large amounts of pollution can result in smog‚ which can lead too poor visibility as well as breathing difficulties for the cities and inhabitants. Smog can deplete oxygen levels‚ which can cause asthma‚ bronchitis and other lung diseases. This is why it is important that we consider air quality at the planning stage‚ so we can help prevent producing
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What if every day you woke up and when you looked out the window‚ you couldn’t see a thing? In some cities in China there is so much smog‚ you can’t see a thing! Air pollution is one of the worst problems in China. Benxi‚ an industrial town in northeastern China‚ is so polluted that once‚ a satellite couldn’t take a picture of it because of the smog. A poll taken before the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics said that 74 percent of the Chinese people said that they were concerned about air pollution.
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WRIGHT‚ Environmental Science Chapter 21 Atmospheric Pollution MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. 1) Acid precipitation refers A) to any precipitation which is more acidic than neutral. B) to any precipitation which is more acidic than normal. C) only to precipitation which is strongly acidic. D) to a new kind of irrigation. E) to a precipitation which causes particularly severe erosion. Answer: B Diff: 2 2) The chemical component
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