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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Pollution is a big deal. If we don't recycle and start doing things to help our Earth, then it'll get so hot at one point that we can't live here anymore. There's already been enough damage done, we need people to start helping more so it's not at a point it's irreversible.
Pollution is a big deal, It keeps warm air inside the earth, melts icecaps from the heat, and also ruins air. if pollution keeps up then trees and other plants that produce oxygen might not be able to keep up with all the pollution. Something that people can do is take less car rides, and with gas prices rising it might happen.
Personally I think that pollution is something we should all be worried about. While as a nation we have progessed a lot more compared to China, we need to make sure we continue on this path while keeping up our economy.
I dont think so! I think it is more important to keep the earth clean and dont just throw trush in nature. Because for example plastic can get eaten by animals and they die because of it. I think in history our planet survived so many not healthy things like wars. There came a lot of pollution in the air and the earth is still there. I think you have to take care but also global warming for example... climate changed since beginning of time so i kind of dont believe in stuff like that. Maybe pollution makes it stronger but I think the earth is global warming also from itself.
I think that pollution is a very big deal that needs to be dealt with as soon as possible. I think that if we continue to do things how we have been doing them and don't help with pollution, the effects will become more noticeable and harmful. There are things that I could do personally to help, but nothing is really going to change if large corporations with little to no restrictions on pollution and emissions aren't changed.
I agree becuase it is going to be hard to get rid of plastic in large corporations.
I think that all forms of pollution are very bad. Something bigger needs to be done about it. The countries of this world should work together and try to fix it. However, some countries probably wouldn't help since they don't care. I think if we are going to fix all of this, we need every country working together.
I do think that pollution is a bad thing and it is becoming worse. It is killing alot of animals and it is making our environment very dirty. People can get sick from all the pollution and people should help the environment to make it cleaner.
I think people can blow pollution way out of proportion. We all know that pollution is a big problem in the U.S and even around the world. But along with that there's many ways we can prevent pollution and a lot of people don't follow it so how can we expect pollution problems to ever decrease. Simply by throwing away your trash and recycling when appropriate can eliminate many pollution issues. Most people just need to be more conisderate about what they do with there trash and recyclable items and pollution wouldn't be as big of a problem as it is.
i think that some people make pollution a way bigger deal than it really is. there is no need to freak out about the world's pollution because it isn't something that we can change in one day. It will take time and I think that the main thing is for people to be mindful of what they are doing and how they can help.
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