Sulfur dioxide

Ever since the industrial revolution, the world has been involved in a constant struggle. This everlasting debate between economic growth and environmental protection has come to light once again with the expansion of hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking. While fracking was first used in the 1940s, it has not been widespread until recently when it was joined with horizontal drilling (Hoffman, n.d., para. 1). It is a process used to acquire natural gas previously inaccessible with more…

A hot, American topic these days is the steady rise of pollution in the world and the negative effects it is having on everything. Air pollution is the consistency of particle in the air that are harmful to humans, animals, and plants, and often times buildings (Rutledge, et al., 2011). With these pollutants in the air, they act as the beginning of a chain of effects that occur in our cycle of life. Air pollution in the 21st century is becoming greater each day as man-made technology…

Anthropogenic causes have been the largest contributor to an array of environmental disasters that we are currently experiencing and will experience in the coming decades. The extraction, transportation and burning of fossil fuels is one major contributor to environmental disasters. Another imminent threat we are facing as a species is the extinction of all wildlife on earth. This is due largely because of habitat destruction and climate change. Lastly the global meat industry also accounts for…

This part of the plan is going to make carbon dioxide emissions drop thirty-two percent by the year 2030 ("President Obama 's Plan to Fight Climate Change"). This drop in emissions will help with the issues carbon dioxide is causing our atmosphere. This part of the deal would also specifically affect residents in Indiana. Eighteen percent of Hoosiers suffer from asthma ("President Obama 's Plan to Fight Climate Change"). This reduction of carbon dioxide would also help those individuals. The…

such as cans, chemicals, and plastics. These materials are being re-used, and not just being thrown away (“Advantages and Disadvantages of Recycling” ). Global warming is decreases when we recycle. Large amounts of greenhouse gas emissions (Carbon dioxide and Chlorofluorocarbon’s) are produced when waste is burned in large portions. Recycling ensures that the burning process is minimized and the waste is re-generated as a useful product. Additionally, less greenhouse gases are produced. The…

time, and is stated in tons of carbon dioxide (CO2). It is basically the sum of carbon dioxide emissions generated due to our activities and is typically measured per year. The activities could either be from an individual, organization, event, product, city, nation or the whole world. The activities include all those which result in copious amounts of carbon dioxide emissions such as burning of fossil fuels, engine fuel burnt while driving your car (carbon dioxide emission will vary according…

Global warming and pollution has increased rapidly throughout the past couple years. Some of it has to do with air pollutants such as fossil fuels, and others has to do with disposing waste and other substances in lakes, rivers, ponds, etc. There are many factors that can cause global warming and pollution but who causes it all? I believe that everybody contributes to pollution and we should be the ones to blame. But we should also blame the major corporations and other industries that do this…

As humans, we never want to stop advancing. We will always look for the next bigger, better, and more efficient way of doing something, which has allowed us to create things such as planes, automobiles, and factories. While these inventions seem to have improved our lives, we see that the creation of this technology has greatly hurt the Earth as well as ourselves when looking at the bigger picture. Albert Einstein himself said that, “all of our exalted technological progress, civilization for…

energy, and the majority of the United State’s energy comes from the burning of fossil fuels, “coal, oil and natural gas industries dig up and pump out about seven billion tons of carbon a year, and society burns nearly all of it, releasing carbon dioxide” (Socolow 50). If that information is not sobering enough, energy demands will continue to grow by 2.6% per year (Sovacool, 2007, pg 171). Eventually, in a worst case scenario, two things will occur: oil reserves will be depleted as demand…

throughout the past, but now we have to realize how much we’ve used it and the damage it does. To gain a better understanding of these pollutants, we’ll have to look at what they are entirely composed of. Apart from carbon dioxide, there are other forms of pollutants: Sulfur Dioxide which is the leading cause for acid rain, Nitrogen oxides are main contributors to smog and breathing illnesses, Mercury contaminates waterways, makes most of the fish inedible, and birth defects can come from this,…