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    room visits and hospitalizations (FSNArchive). Air pollution from cars and agricultural industry are major causes of asthma attacks. The disadvantage of air pollution to human’s health can develop asthma for healthy people if they absorb the worst air quality for a long period of time. Air pollution kills more people in the San Joaquin Valley than the homicide. More than 2,200 people have died prematurely over the past two years because of our dirty air. Furthermore, One out of six children who…

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    the countries working on having cleaner air for their area or cleaner water for their communities to drink. Interdependence of an area allows a country to function on their own and have unique things that makes them their own country or region. These things can also allow their people to survive and prosper in the area they live in. Globalization is what allows the world…

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    the top air quality issues are particulate matter and indoor air pollution. Indoor air pollution may be many times more toxic and affect the old and young who may be at greatest risk of adverse health effects. My talents may, in fact, contribute to decreasing the levels of these hazards. The Fairbanks area is well known for a meteorological condition known as temperature inversion. This inversion of temperature, keeping warmer, unhealthy air near the ground by cold, dense air…

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    breathe in the toxic gas that is emitted from the tailpipes of cars, planes, trucks, buses etc. And slowly it is taking its toll, causing diseases, sicknesses, even cancer. Along with harming human health, air pollution can cause a variety of environmental effects, one example being acid rain (“Air pollutants smog and acid rain 1”). Acid rain is precipitation containing harmful amounts of nitric and sulfuric…

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    access can shop, there is nothing like trying things on in a beautiful store in a city. The super malls have hundreds of stores to shop in. The shopping mall is usually applied to enclosed retail structures. While shopping centers usually have an open-air retail complex, both types of facilities usually have large parking lots, face major traffic arterials, and have few pedestrian connections to surrounding neighborhoods. Shopping looks…

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    Huntingburg, Indiana. This man suffered a heart attack, which made his wife become a widow. According to a 10-year study, it states, The pollution appears to accelerate harmful deposits in the arteries that cause nearly all heart attacks and most strokes (Smith Hopkins A1). This quote by Jamie Smith Hopkins shows what can cause heart attacks and strokes and how pollution is declining people’s health. This tells me how the 57-year-old suffer a heart attack and how the environment affected his…

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    needs I chose one priority need which was support with Air Pollution. I chose this because I couldn’t find any social enterprises that support this social need. However, there are many people who are being effected by the air pollution in Southall and some are unaware of the effects of this. The social enterprise needed to meet this social need is a supportive group that will educate others on the health problems and environmental damage air pollution has. The social enterprise I will set up…

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    Acid Rain Effect

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    sleet, fog, or dust. There are many different causes and effects of acid rain. Humans are trying to find a solution, and the Federal Government has enacted many laws to help prevent acid rain. Rain is naturally acidic, but pollution is increasing rains’ acidic value. Pollution from homes, factories, power stations, cars, and even humans are causing the increase in the acidic value of rain. The burning of oil and coal by plants and factories, homes and cars, is the main source of chemicals…

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    Environmental Pollution Environmental pollution is introduction of contaminants into the environment that cause adverse change. Pollution can take many forms, some being, chemical substances or energy. Noise, heat, and light are also known as pollutants, pollutants are are components of pollution. They are often seen as foreign substances or energies and naturally occurring contaminants. National income and level of development are critical factors for the differences in pollution types and…

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    are also harming the air that humans, animals, and many other things in nature take in every single day. In an article by Jennifer Bergman titled “Air Pollution” she states that air pollution can range from many things including, smog and acid rain. Smog is a fog or haze that is combined with smoke and other atmospheric pollutants. Smog makes it harder to see, and it also makes the air harder to breath. Acid rain is rainfall made sufficiently acidic by atmospheric pollution. It causes…

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