Pollution. The main sources of these pollutants are industrial factories and motor vehicles. The industries based on the burning of fossil fuels are the most dangerous for the environment, for example in India and China the economy is rapidly improving

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Northern Caribbean University

College of Natural and Applied Sciences

Department of Biology, Chemistry and Environmental Sciences

Environmental Health

Title: Pollution

Assignment #1

Name: Paul Scavella

ID#: 24063087

Lecturers: Mr. Lemuel Brady

Date: February 4, 2010

        Pollution, one of the biggest environmental problems the earth has seen to date is getting out of hand. Persons are not taking the matter seriously; they do not see the effects that pollution is having on the environment. Progress is taking higher priority than long term survival in the years to come. We only see the short term and not how we are destroying the environment via pollution. The Biosphere is being destroyed gradually for the sake of development infrastructure and economic gain. Not to mention what it is doing to our health. This lack of ecological conscience is having dire consequences.

        The main sources of these pollutants are industrial factories and motor vehicles. The industries based on the burning of fossil fuels are the most dangerous for the environment, for example in India and China the economy is rapidly improving these countries have even managed to get out of the global recession faster than the rest of the world but at what price. They are paying for this economic boom with lives via many respiratory, airborne and water diseases yearly due to heavy pollution.

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        The world’s biggest polluter is the Republic of China which is not hard to believe considering they having the world’s largest national population, with America coming in at a close second. Most of the world’s greenhouse gases come from these two countries. They release the majority of the worlds CO2 emissions which not only pollutes but lends to Global Warming, which is a major concern for scientists around the globe. Air pollution is one of many forms of global pollutions here on the planet.

        Water is another big medium for pollution which people cannot live without. People take very little precautions ...

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