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    Air pollution started getting real noticeable after more and more factors were being built every day. With over 100,000 factores just in Canada you can see why air pollution is a big factor for how are air quality is. This will affect people's health because we will be breathing air that has been contaminated. This can also affect the society because alerts will go out telling people that it's not safe to go outside. It's not just factors that are polluting the air, it's us humans that are…

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    The engineers who designed the plant did install safety measures. These include valves to stop water or other substances from flowing into the Methyl Isocyanate (MIC) – a main ingredient in producing crop pesticide - which could cause a runaway reaction which ultimately was the cause of the Bhopal Disaster. Other valves to stop MIC from escaping the storage tank were also installed. A vent gas scrub…

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    Case study 1: Gas leak in UCC in Bhopal : The methyl isocyanate, woke the people with burning eyes and aching lungs and exposing over half a million. Twenty thousand people dies in the aftermath because of the exposure, with more dying every year from gas related illness. It depicts one of the most heinous…

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    structures of justification, but in my opinion, there is no clear distinction between the two. To explain this further take the example of the Bhopal gas tragedy case. Union Carbide v Union of India was a landmark case where about 41 metric tonnes of methyl isocyanate (MIC) was accidentally released from the Union Carbide India Limited pesticide plant. This gas spread slowly southward from the plant site during the early morning hours of December 3, 1984. Of the 9,00,000 population within the…

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    The word Animal (jaanvar) is defined as "the one who lives" in Hindi while in the English language, Animal is defined as a living thing who behaves in a wild, aggressive, or unpleasant way. We live in a world where disasters are quite common throughout societies where innocent people are harmed and often forgotten or viewed as unimportant as an animal in the street. Many people suffer and many even lose their lives. The catastrophic gas leak at an American owned Union Carbide plant in Bhopal,…

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    Global also needs to be sustained from dangerous threats that can cause damage to environments and hurt societies. The major concerns in the world is pollution and nuclear energy. In the article, “Environmental Pollution: An Underrecognized Threat to Children’s Health, Especially in Low- and Middle-Income Countries” by the Environmental Health Perspectives explains the differences of income countries that are encountering pollution. Any type of exposure to environmental pollutants in early…

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    Introduction We cannot compare anything to breathing clean and fresh air. But today, are we breathing clean air? The gases you're taking up by our noise could be slowly killing us. World Health Organization says in their report, in every year about two million people die too early due to the effects of polluted air. Air pollution is a large problem and it is not a problem of people only, the problem of the world also, through such things as global warming and damage to the ozone layer, it has…

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    The elevated degree of manipulation rehearse by present, rising populaces reasons the contamination and there are supplementary than on kind of contamination that might come from varied origins and have countless consequences. Generally, there are nine understood centers of contamination in the present world. These centers of contamination have a bad encounter on the usual globe, and additionally have a bad consequence on the condition of human beings too. There are countless kinds of…

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    Chemically, polyester (or many esters) is primarily a family of polymers wherein the monomers belong to the category “esters”. The most commonly used polyester is the polymer of diglycol terephthalate and is called polyethylene terephthalate (PET). Nylon is a group of polymers, which can be classified as polyamides. Today several types of nylon are produced with properties tuned to meet customer specifications. The most commonly used ones are nylon-6 (which is manufactured from caprolactam) and…

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