Main Causes of Pollution and How Earth is Changing Because of It#2

Breathing it in, wearing your own damage. People are very unaware of the pollution, where it is, what it is doing to us and the environment, and that it could very easily be prevented.

Even simple statistics will spark people’s attention in hope to change societies daily damage and the effect it is having on our environments.

• People who live in places with high levels of air pollutants have a 20% higher risk of death from lung cancer than people who live in less-polluted areas.
• If you don’t smoke just remember that your lungs or heart may be similarly damaged simply from exposure to ozone and particulate matter and will expose you to such treatments like lung cancer.
• Air pollution is perceived as a modern-day curse: a by-product of increasing urbanization and industrialization
• Smog hangover in cities is the most familiar and obvious form of air pollution.
• But there are different kinds of pollution — some visible, some invisible — that contribute to global warming.
• The Mississippi River carries an estimated 1.5 million metric tons of nitrogen pollution into the Gulf of Mexico each year, creating a “dead zone” in the Gulf each summer about the size of New Jersey.
• Each year 1.2 trillion gallons of untreated sewage, stormwater, and industrial waste are dumped into US water.
• More than 1 billion people worldwide don’t have access to safe drinking water

• Recycling and composting prevented 85 million tons of material away from being disposed of in 2010, up from 18 million tons in 1980.

Air Pollution Causes, Effects, and Solutions

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