According to Lung.org, “The "State of the Air '' 2021 report finds that despite some nationwide progress on cleaning up air pollution, more than 40% of Americans—over 135 million people—are living in places with unhealthy levels of ozone or particle pollution.” Pollution is a problem that is not only happening in the US but worldwide. Pollution has been a debated topic for years and seems to only increase yearly. When people think of pollution, many first think of trash and waste that is thrown into our environment, but it is much more than just trash.
The scientific definition of pollution is “The presence in or introduction into the environment of a substance or thing that has harmful or poisonous effects.''This means that the word pollution stretches far beyond plastic bottles, and trash. Pollution consists of air pollution, water pollution, and land pollution. Air pollution is caused by several different factors such as factories, the burning of fossil fuels, exhaust, and even things like volcanoes. Many times, air pollution is invisible to the naked eye, and not talked about much. Water and land pollution seems to be talked about a little more. Water and land pollution is caused when waste and trash can find their way into our water, our jungles, forests, etc. Most of the time, the waste that enters into land and waters isn't safe and biodegradable. This means that it will forever remain to roam the world. This soon leads to many bad things happening, such as animals mistaking it for food, and dying or choking, or it getting into the ground and killing plants and grass. Same with water, many water animals mistake plastic for their food, and it kills the animals.
I believe that pollution is a huge problem that needs to be discussed. I think pollution is overlooked, and it is slowly killing our earth off. With an increase in pollution comes an increase in Global Warming. Global warming is causing the Earth's Ozone layer to thin, causing the earth to rapidly heat up. I believe that many good and useful organizations are trying to help save our earth. These organizations are saving the earth by just doing simple tasks. I believe that cleaning up our neighborhoods and local areas, recycling, walking, or driving less is helping save the world. I think that if everyone would step up and help end pollution, the air, waters, and land would all soon be clean and healthy once again.
Do you think pollution is a big deal?
If so, what can you do, or are you doing to help?
If not, why is it not it a big deal to you?
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Great topic choice and good summary! You needed to reply more frequently to student comments however.
I think that world polution is a serious problem and that we should put more effort into preneting it and fixing the damage that it caused. I think that their should be more of a push to clean up the oceans and earth and get the trash out of where it shouldnt be.
I think pollution is a relevent topic these days, but I think only so much can be done to fix portions of it. If people work to keep the environment clean, that is a good first step. Cars keep our economy and country going so I think it will be hard to decrease pollution in that aspect. Unless better alternatives become effective and cheap, I think it is going to be hard to fix pollution.
yes, I do. drive a more fuel-efficient car to try and put out less pollution into our air.
I do think that there is a big problem with pollution. There is plenty of data and evidence to prove that pollution is a problem. I don't know what I can do to help but I am willing to help. Someone just needs to explain to me what I need to do to help. I don't think that stopping fossil fuels is the answer though. I don't think that we can completely get rid of that.
I think pollution is a big deal but social media making it to a bigger topic as it actually is. But we should start to reuse things more and over thing things before we are buying stuff. Or we should recycle more we just recycling like 70% or something. And we should take our bicycles for small distance.
I think pollution is a big deal, Im gonna not liter, and its a big deal because it makes out world pretteir.
Pollution is a big problem and if it continues to get worse, I'll world will start to fall apart. TO help, don't littler, recycle, reduce, and reuse.
Yes I think pollution is a big deal because it puts the earth in danger and it also affects every living being on earth I think something people can do to help is to reduce trash waste by recycling and factories stop using chemicals materials that can spread in the air.
I think pollution is a very important problem that needs to be dealt with as soon as possible. I think that if we continue to do things the way we do and don't help tackle pollution, the effects will become clearer and more damaging. Personally, I can do things to help, but nothing will really change if the big companies have little or no restrictions on pollution and emissions are not changed.
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