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    If we look a century back when there were no automobiles, factories and vehicles. The air in that era was pure and free from any kind of pollution. People liked to live in such kind of atmosphere and they enjoyed this living style. We know that nothing is important than health. If a person is healthy, he/she can enjoy the life in a best way. A sick person has no taste of life. Polluted air damages the life of the human beings in bad way. So in this paper, we will try to explore the air pollution…

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    Plastic Bottles Are Just Big Trouble “50 billion plastic bottles are used each year in America, that’s enough to wrap around the world 190 times,” (Leithman). Even though plastic bottles are popular now, when they were first created in 1947, they were very expensive and not many people bought them. However, in 1960, high-density polyethylene was made and introduced to the public. As the demand for plastic bottles escalated, consumers produced more plastic bottles for cheap, while selling the…

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    example, greenhouse gasses such as carbon dioxide, the main pollutant that is warming the Earth and is produced from the breath of living beings and the burning of fossil fuels; methane, which comes from swamps and gas emitted by livestock; and chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs, which were used in refrigerants and aerosol propellants until they were banned for their negative effects on the ozone layer. Generally any substance that people introduce into the atmosphere that has damaging effects on…

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    for the U.S.? Since the late 80’s, the United States has been fickle in its global cooperation for climate change. To illustrate, Washington supported the 87’ Montreal Protocol, which was “designed to control the production and consumption of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and other halogenated compounds that were suspected of causing the destruction of the ozone layer” (Coyne & Maunder, 2015). A few years later, however, the U.S. failed to ratify the 1992 Kyoto Protocol to reduce greenhouse gas…

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    From the beginning of the Industrial Revolution to modern day, air and water pollution has been a problem affecting the economy of the United States, creating a significant cost for damages. The environment is a necessity for human survival, as it provides all of our resources, and maintaining it is the key to improving human life on the planet. Without this, we see more of what has already began to happen: global warming, ozone layer depletion, acid rain, loss of biodiversity by deforestation…

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    What if there was not a single animal on earth, what would the people do? Climate change is creating a turn of events for animals that live within a specific climate or area. With the change in climate taking its toll on the animal kingdom, causing them not only to move and adapt to there surroundings climate change is causing many of them to die out. Climate change really picked up during the industrialization era when factories started open up and more and more gasoline engines came onto the…

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    Climate change refers to the increase in global temperatures. Among the contributors to the rise in temperature is from human activity itself. Warm planets leads and cause the temperature changes and also affect the weather in many ways. Land and sea temperatures are one way to measure the effects of climate change. A global warming has the potential to alter patterns of rain and snowfall, causing severe storms and droughts, reduced ice on the lake, glaciers melts, rising sea levels, and changes…

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    Global warming has played a major role in the changing weather all over the world; the climate change all over the world is a proof that the weather conditions are changing. Global warming has made some of the hottest land cold now and the countries that never had a summer in millenniums are now having sunlight regularly. These are the basic changes that signify that global warming is affecting the whole world. Global climate change is a procedure which is according to the climate studies a…

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    Throughout the years it has been easier to notice how climate has changed. Some summers are not very warm and some winter are not very cold. Even crazier, sometimes spring feels like winter and summer like autumn, and so on. Since the 1800’s humans have had the knowledge that climate changes are possible, and can happen from atmosphere variations as Fourier calculated in 1824, which can lead to the Earth becoming far colder. Additionally, the industrial revolution lead to “coal, railroads, and…

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    Inverted Quarantine means being different, and isolating yourself from something threatening, like something toxic. That is what we will be discussing. Andrew Szasz, the author of “ The Future of Illusion” wrote this to explain how we can help the world from pollution or oil consumption. Some may wonder “I am just one person, I wouldn’t be able to change the world.” Who is to say you aren’t able too? See, the first steps is knowing how too, and if you are willing to help the earth. “...…

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