Air Pollution is the result of burning fuel and human mistakes. It is the main cause for human death, environmental deterioration, and global warming. For a person to take a stand on air pollution, they must first fully understand what it is. Air pollution causes various amounts of effects, environmentally and to humans. With these effects from air pollution, there are worldwide efforts taking place to reduce air pollution. Air pollution is the unwanted but inevitable result produced by burning fossil fuels, and we must find and utilize new, cleaner energy sources.
In order to evaluate air pollution as a whole, a person must fully understand what it is and what causes it to happen. The textbook definition of air pollution is “the human introduction into the atmosphere of chemicals, particles, or biological materials that cause harm to humans or other living organism or damage the environment” (Air Pollution). This means that air pollution is anything put into the atmosphere by humans or by natural phenomenon, such as dust or volcanic activity. There are many things that contribute to air pollution. Some examples are burning fuels, sulfur, nitrogen, carbon monoxide, toxic metals, radioactive pollutants, etc. The two greatest contributors of air pollution are burning fossils fuels and from vehicle emissions. Both producers of these pollutants are extremely essential to our daily lives, though. Burning fossil fuels gives us heat and energy, while vehicles transport us long distances. While these are the greatest factor in air pollution, we cannot stop using them immediately, or else we would have no means of heat, energy, or transportation. There are currently efforts to create alternative ways of replacing these two great pollutants.
From all of these pollutants comes a great multitude of effects to humans and the environment. Air pollution is the main factor in the Greenhouse Effect, or more broadly known as Global Warming. Normally, the sun’s heat goes...