In this 21st century‚ environmental issues have been everyone’s concern. The rate of pollution in our country is getting higher and has reached a dangerous level. Therefore‚ everyone must play a role in safeguarding the environment. Yet‚ before looking up for the ways to overcome this issue‚ we must find out the types of pollutions first. Firstly‚ one of them is air pollution. Nowadays‚ almost every family has at least a car at home. Although the car is convenient for our daily lives
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Plant. The garbage emitting foul smell‚ the decaying plants and animals also cause air pollution. Hence the doctors advise the patients having lungs trouble to settle in some rural places because the air of villages is pure and free from population. Then comes sound pollution. The harsh sounds of buses‚ its‚ mopeds etc. affect our power of hearing and causes fart trouble. It has been reported that there are two villages named Biraspalli and Devadas Palli near Dum Dum airport m Calcutta where a
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The Radioactive Boy Scout It all begins with a frightening true story of a whiz kid and his homemade nuclear reactor. This is a story of a Michigan teen in the early 1990s by the name of David Hahn. David was basically free of adult guidance or supervision‚ worked tirelessly to build a breeder reactor in his back yard. At times this feels like a tale of youthful determination to reach a goal‚ a story of a self-motivated kid immersing himself in self-directed learning and doing an impressive job
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Pollution Human beings have always caused some environmental pollution. Since prehistoric times‚ people have created waste. Like garbage today‚ this waste was either burned‚ tossed into waterways‚ buried‚ or dumped aboveground. However‚ the waste of early peoples was mostly food scraps and other substances that broke down easily by natural decay processes. Prehistoric populations were also much smaller and were spread out over large areas. As a result‚ pollution was less concentrated and caused
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2) Water pollution: Water pollution causes due to the introduction of chemical‚ biological and all sort of physical matter into large bodies of water that degrade the quality of life that lives in it and consumes it. We can blame fertilizers‚ pesticides‚ or petroleum derivatives for water pollution. In addition to that the other contributors towards water pollution are Waste treatment facilities‚ mining‚ Pesticides‚ herbicides and fertilizers‚ oil spills‚ refiners‚ Failing septic systems‚ factories
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Environmental pollution is the biggest menace to the human race on this planet today. The environment consists of earth‚ water‚ air‚ plants and animals. If we pollute the environment‚ the existence of man and nature will be hampered. Although most of people know that but they still destroy their own life. There a numerous kinds of environment pollution. However‚ I split it to 3 groups: water pollution‚ air pollution and soil pollution. Nowadays‚ the water of rivers and sea all over the worlds is
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Impact of Pollution The environment is a part of our daily lives yet most people do not consider the impact that their actions have on the environment. People interact with and depend on different aspects of the environment from the air to water and land. There are relationships between actions that we make and the environment‚ the most obvious one being pollution. The lasting influence we have on our surroundings may not be immediately apparent but future generations will have to live with
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The problem of air pollution in our society is best understood within the context of Sean Lynn-Jones’ and Steven Miller’s book Global Dangers: Changing Dimensions of International Security. (Lynn-Jones and Miller) In this collection of essays‚ it becomes clear that the threat to the environment poses the greatest danger to the international community today. This is precisely why environmental security must now become the most important objective of all nations. Global Dangers reveals that‚ with the
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Problem: greenhouse gas pollution Reason: burning fossil fuels Sub-reason: create much carbon dioxide Solution: phasing out fossil fuel Example: not building any new coal-burning power plants Pollution whether it is vehicular‚ electrical or industrial is the main contributor to the global warming. Most of the greenhouse gas emissions come from the burning of fossil fuel for energy such as electricity and transport. When oil‚ gas or coal burns‚ carbon contained within it combines with oxygen
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created in 1970 to manage the enforcement of environmental policy‚ states its concerns in its letter to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in 2009 (EPA). Specifically addressing mines in West Virginia and Kentucky‚ the EPA expressed concerns over water pollution from strip mining. The rupture of an ash dike at the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Kingston Fossil Plant in Roane County‚ TN on December 22‚ 2008 granted credibility to the EPA’s concerns.... [tags: Environment ] :: 2 Works Cited | 853 words
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