Automobiles all around the world everyday, and their exhaustdestroys our air everyday. Our environment is a major aspect of our lifetoday. Many of us dont take our Earth seriously and think that as long aspollution doesnt hurt them they can go ahead and throw garbage on theground or spill oil down the drain. Well to many people have that theory andthey are killing off our Earth and also physically harming themselves fromthe air they breath and the water they swim in.
Our Earth is fragile like ahuman and people don’t know. There are many different types ofenvironmental pollution (e. g. Water, air, atmosphere.
)Scientists believe that all cities with populations exceeding 50,000have some degree of air pollution. Burning garbage in open dumps causesair pollution, and also it smells pretty bad. Air pollution comes from manydifferent sources. One of the major sources is carbon monoxide which manlycomes from automobiles, but also burning of fossil fuels, CFCs etc.
Airpollution does not leave the Earth it all gets trapped up in the atmosphere. This doesn’t bother most people, and they think that it will not harmthem. People burn down forests and people burn fossil fuels, and CFCs fromaerosols. Every bit of this harms our atmosphere. Factories andtransportation depend on huge amounts of fuel billions of tons of coaland oil are consumed around the world every year.
When these fuels burnthey introduce smoke and other, less visible, by-products into theatmosphere. Although wind and rain occasionally wash away the smokegiven off by power plants and automobiles, the cumulative effect of airpollution poses a grave threat to humans and the environment. A bigexample of smog is LA you can see the smog just hovering above the city. Idon’t think any human alive should be subject to that kind of environment.
Scientist have discovered that over the South Pole the ozone has a high levelof ozone depletion. Air pollution causes global warming which scientistbelieve is making the Earth warmer and melting ice up in the South andNorth Pole. The country Holland has had water from the ocean got too highfor them and flooded into towns. Holland spent millions of dollars to put updikes which are big barriers in the water to prevent their town to becompletely submerged. With the ocean getting deeper coastal cites allaround the world could flood, billions of dollars would be spent to try toprevent it, but in a while it could not be stopped.
Instead of waiting andhaving to spend all this money why don’t we put it together today and trydifferent ways of preventing air pollution, it would be much easier than allthe trouble of stopping flooding. Water pollution is another major aspect of environmental pollution. Water pollution is scary because over 75% of our Earth is covered by theocean. Water pollution comes from many different sources around theworld. One major pollutant that destroys the ocean is oil spills.
The oil froman oil spill kills hundreds of sea animals from fish, to whales, to birds. over amillion tons of oil has been spilled into the ocean, and we are not able toclean all the oil out. Most of the oil stays on the surface so when fish comeup to the surface they get the oil on their body, and it gets into their bodyand gills. Birds land on the water to catch fish or take a break when the oilgets on their feathers and they are to weighted down to fly off, they later getto tired and just die from either poisoning from the oil or their body just notbeing able to take it. Another way our ocean is polluted is also from humans. We litter theocean with garbage from boats and we pour oil down the storm drains.
Allthe garbage is spread throughout the ocean and it poisons animals or fish,and birds get caught up in it. When those little plastic rings that hold sodacans together get into the water birds get them caught in their throats, fishget caught in them. There are many different things that can hurt the sea life.Preventing water pollution is such an easy task, not very hard, people justhave to be aware of what they throw away our into the water, they can find agarbage can.
