Air Pollution
One type of pollution is air pollution. First of all why should you care about air pollution. You should care about it because you need air to breath. The average person breaths 3000 gallons of air in one day. But breathing polluted air can make you sick or even kill you. It also damages crops, trees, water and many other things we need daily. Also if you damage plants and crops animals will have nothing to eat and starve and the animals that eat herbivores won’t have anything to eat and then the whole ecosystem goes KAAABBBOOOMMMM.
Think about all the cars, factories, and boats emitting gasses. All those gasses have an effect on the ozone. The thickest part of the ozone is in the stratosphere, which is one of the major atmosphere layers beneath the mesosphere and just above the troposphere. The ozone is 10 to 30 miles above us. The ozone’s purpose is to keep out the harmful U.V rays that the sun emits. But with the ozone decreasing soon there will be tons of U.V rays bombarding everything and everybody. If you get hit with too many U.V rays you may get skin cancer and die.
Photo By:Owen Byran
Name:Air pollution sources in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Site: Air pollution emission/Gallery
Some ways peoples can help lessen air pollution is, turn off lights when leaving a room. Drive your car less. Get a house air cleaner. Get solar panels to power your house, or even buy a electric car. If you try some of these ideas you can help reduce air pollution and make the world a cleaner place.Some major air pollutants are, Nitrogen dioxide (no2), Sulfur dioxide (so2), Carbon monoxide (co) and Lead (pb).
Sources: Wikipedia