Essay Of Air Pollution

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Pollution is a global concern because of the effects on human being’s health and on the environment in which we live. Environmental pollution comes in various forms, one such form is air pollution.
According to World Health Organization, air pollution is contamination of the indoor or outdoor environment by any chemical, physical or biological agent that modifies the natural characteristics of the atmosphere. These has led to hospitalization, chronic breathing problems and chronic diseases. Air pollution has become an increasing problem in my community and my country (St. Vincent) on a whole. This written assignment identifies main air pollutants and the plausible causes of air pollution and the skills or interests that could be applied to helping improve air quality in my community.
Our main air pollutions come under two broad categories the outdoor which includes (transportation, factories and agriculture products) while we have the indoor which includes (paints that we use on our houses, cleaning agents we use to clean the house, dust, pet hairs, tobacco smoking and the smoke from our kitchen).
For outdoor, one of our major problems comes from our transportation system that we used every day to get to work, school and travelling etc. Pollution emitting from vehicles including trucks, jeeps, cars, trains, airplanes which cause immense amount of pollution. There overuse is dangerous to our environment. These vehicles, produce significant amounts of nitrogen oxides, carbon

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