Pollution In Our Society

The salt that ends up in the ponds, streams, and rivers adds a layer of salt water, which restrains nutrients away from underwater vegetation and organisms (Beaudry, Frederic). The chemicals cause many different reactions to the vegetation, which results in the plants dying. The harmful effects of sodium chloride and other chemicals can damage vegetations development and can cause plants to die. After road salt is applied to major highways, there is a considerable amount of salt left over and the residue can cause serious problems on the environment. When road salt is being used it should be more controlled and the amount should be managed so that there are no left-over chemicals on the road that could cause damage.

Jeri Ward Professor Lyn Froehlich English 1101 30 September 2015 Pesticides and the Death of Pollinators Our world as we know it may not exist in the near future. Right now, pesticides are eradicating pollinators by the thousands. These essential organisms are the major way that plants are able to reproduce. If pollinators are eliminated, the earth will lose a significant amount of vegetation, resulting in a considerable deficit of oxygen and precipitation. Due to pollution, air quality is already poor.

Industrial corporations have continuously used bodies of water to their advantage by having their factories use water as an energy source and trash bin. Toxic chemicals are released by these factories and sometimes directly dumped back into the water. Aquatic plants benefit from the carbon dioxide released by factories, but too much can harm the biodiversity of that ecosystem and other marine life and acidity levels will also rise. A bigger population means more consumption and as the human consumption has increased throughout the years, landfills have been overflowed by large amounts of trash. When liquids and other materials begin to degrade, they release a juice that can be toxic if consumed.

Most people are exposed to a certain level of pesticides. Farmers who experience routine exposure to pesticides have exhibited neurological symptoms such as headache and hand tremors. Children, in particular, may be more susceptible to negative effects resulting from pesticide exposure. Pesticide runoff can have devastating effects on nontarget organisms as well. For example, roundup, an extremely common herbicide used in agriculture, is highly toxic to fish and amphibians.

With the rising threat of global warming, mostly due to the drastic increase in carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from a multitude of sources such as; fossil fuels, animal waste products, the burning of forest and other vegetation etc. Normally the increase in Co2 emissions wouldn’t be that big of a problem as it would later be absorbed by plants containing chlorophyll, which would later be broken down into its base elements (carbon and oxygen). (Pickering) The carbon would be stored within the plant while the oxygen would be released into the atmosphere, this provided a balance between the output (due to respiration) and removal (due to photosynthesis) of carbon dioxide. (Pickering)(Undeerc.org) But that balance has slowly began to tip in favor of CO2, primarily due to the vast amounts transportation as well as the estimated fact that nearly eighteen million acres of forest land is lost each year greatly diminishing the amount of photosynthesis that is carried out throughout the year. (Bradford)With the rapid loss of these vast forests, extensive research has been put into finding alternative ways to power the world's technology without contributing to new CO2 emissions into

There are more than ten natural disasters that have shaped the world we know today and have affected people since the stone-age. These natural disasters, which are not desired by humans, have caused more than 350,000 deaths yearly. The victims of those disasters are everywhere. Many people have separated from their families and left their homes to be safe. Here is where you will learn how and why these disasters are so unwanted by us.

By wasting food, we are also wasting the resources used in food production, such as water, energy, fertilizers, and the gasoline used during transportation. The aspect to consider is why millions of people die of hunger every year, despite the world producing enough food to feed everyone. One reason could be that

Humans have escalated the use of natural gas, oil, and coal, that has constructed a major effect on the environment. The quality of air has been severely affected by the increase in industries and quantity of vehicles being used daily. An intensification in volume of CO2 emissions will lead to global warming, change in climate patterns, rise in sea level, and melting of polar ice caps. Which are only a few consequences caused by pollution increase due to overpopulation that is to be expected effecting the ecology and biodiversity of the earth and buildup of human-generated greenhouse gases in the

From one report, “poisonous chemicals traveled from a manufacturing plant in Colorado to farming district several miles away, there to poison wells, sicken humans and livestock, and damage crops… Farmers began to report unexplained sickness among livestock; the complained of extensive crop damage. Foliage turned yellow, plants failed to mature, and many crops were killed outright” (Carson, 43). Besides water, the use of chemicals also affects the other earth’s basic resources, the soil. As we know, soil, plants, and animals are strictly connected because plants need soil to grow, and animals need plants in order to survive. In the soil, there are numerous essential organisms such as bacteria, fungi, algae which are the principal agents of decay and nitrogen fixation, and earthworms which are geologic agents for the transport of soil (Carson, 55).

The level of carbon dioxide has been increased in the upper part of the atmosphere which it leads to increase the average temperature on the surface which it causes many problems in many side of life including nature, health and economy. Increasing the concentration of carbon dioxide is due to release of poison gases to the atmosphere by cars, manufactures, oil field, burning of natural gases and smoking. Air pollution and climate change are a result of increasing the level of carbon dioxide around the world. Researches show that the average temperature of the planet has been changed during the last decades, as a result, many problems join with it and climate change is considered as the biggest problem around the world. Climate change is one of the results of global warming and it has so many negative disadvantage impacts on earth, including; increasing the events of natural