The Pros And Cons Of Polluting The Environment

Imagine the world without foul smells of garbage lying on the floor and foggy skies from public transportation. Humans are known to have the most advanced brains but do they really show that when they are polluting the environment and causing drastic changes to the ecosystem. “Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson wrote in the Wall Street Journal. ‘Pollutants like mercury, smog and soot are neurotoxins and killers that cause developmental problems and asthma in kids and heart attacks in adults.’”(Chesser). By humans polluting the world they are not only hurting the ecosystem but what lives on it including themselves. Environmental regulation is necessary because it can curb pollution, global warming, save plant and animals …show more content…
Land, water, air, etc. are was is being polluted by everyday garbage. “Pollution is the process of making land, water, air or other parts of the environment dirty and unsafe or unsuitable to use” (Bradford). Land and soil are the ground to which garbage reaches first and even sometimes the soil is contaminated by an overflow of garbage that is buried. Chemical are often buried or hidden from the public eye and although it is “hidden” chemical in the soil can still do much harm to the environment. Many times factories or building are abandoned and just labeled as a hazard zone because of the chemicals. People are blocked from the site but the chemicals still pollute the ground and air. An example of this is seen in the book Friendswood, where a mother, Lee, is now determined to find the reason of her daughter 's sudden death. Friendswood is a novel that takes places in Friendswood, Texas. She realizes that the reason her daughter and many other kids died was because there was a chemical site that was hazardous and even though it was blocked off the chemicals was pollution the people in …show more content…
Air pollution is caused when more chemicals and gasses are higher than what is needed on earth. “Another common type of air pollution is dangerous gasses, such as sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides and chemical vapors. These can take part in further chemical reactions once they are in the atmosphere, creating acid rain and smog. Other sources of air pollution can come from within buildings, such as secondhand smoke” (Bradford). Without noticing US cities like New York City, Chicago, and Los Angeles have a high amount of air pollution because of all of the public transportation, buildings, and smokers. These objects cause many illnesses and actually kills people every year. Approximately 2 million people die a year because of air pollution