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Silent Spring Argument Essay

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At least 1 in 10 people die from air pollution-related diseases, one of the many types of pollution that is life-threatening. This is one of the many reasons people raise awareness for this topic, including Al Gore and Rachel Carson. During his Nobel prize speech, Al Gore talks about the many issues with pollution and the many things that cause it, Rachel Carson also speaks about the issues with pesticide pollution in her story "Silent Spring". The most significant effect that humans have on the environment is pollution.

Many things cause pollution, and one of those things is toxic gases, "precisely document the increasing CO2 levels day by day"- Al Gore's Nobel speech page 375, CO2 is a toxic gas, and the amount of it in the air is increasing day by day making the air more toxic to breathe. "Other forms of pollution, CO2 is invisible, tasteless and odorless..."- Al Gore Nobel speech page 376, he directly states that CO2 is a form of pollution that is harder to notice, he even states this later in his quote, "which helped keep the truth about what it is doing to our climate out of sight."- Al Gore Nobel speech page 376 which helps prove that CO2 is toxic. Toxic gases are a lot more common than people think, and that's …show more content…

"So today, we dumped another 70 million tons of global warming pollution."- Al Gore's Nobel speech page 374, in the quote he is saying that people are the cause of this, people are dumping tons of pollution that cause global warming daily. Global warming is equally as important as toxic gases and other forms of pollution, the only difference is that global warming is the consequence of

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