SPEECH

TOPIC: THE EFFECTS OF AIR POLLUTION.

A very good morning to Dr.Quah our English lecture and my fellow friends. Today, I
take this opportunity to give a speech regarding pollutions .As well as u all known pollution is
a very common issue that our ear attuned to everyday. There are various type of pollutions
such as land pollution, air pollution, water pollution, thermal pollution, noise pollution,
radiation pollution and more. But today I am here to mainly share with you about the effects
of air pollution.
Dear friends, before I am get into my main topic I would like to share some
information about what is air pollution really about. Air pollution is refers to the contamination
of the air, irrespective of indoor activities and outdoor activities. Besides that, a physical,
biological or chemical alteration to the air in the atmosphere also causes air pollution. When
harmful gases like carbon monoxide and sulphur dioxide, dust, smoke enters into the
atmosphere, it makes difficult for plants, animals and humans to survive because the air
becomes dirty.
I believe that u all have hear about the immediate and direct harmful effects of air
pollution to human body and others before through the mass media or more. First of all, such
pollutants cause damage to humans respiratory system along with heart problems. For
examples, particulates in these dirty air causes inflammation of the alveoli. It causes our
body to produce agents in the blood that increases clotting, which leads to cancer and
increased mortality. There also have chances to an individual developed into such conditions
as chronic bronchitis and emphysema.
Nevertheless, global warming also one of the effects of air pollution. Global warming
is sometimes referred to as greenhouse effects. With increased temperatures in whole world
because of air pollution due to open burning and more, causes increase in sea levels and
melting of ice from colder regions and icebergs, displacement and finally loss of habitat. This
been already signalled an impending disaster if action for preservation and normalization are
not undertaken soon.
In addition, harmful gases as nitrogen oxide also combine with other compounds to
help form ozone. In result, eye and lung irritations are increased and lowers the resistance to
respiratory illness like chest colds, bronchitis and influenza. For children with asthma, this
gas can cause death. Moreover, nitrogen oxide turns into nitric acid, when combine with
water, snow, fog and mist, and produces the harmful acid rain. Sulphur dioxide gas also the
same. Acid rain can cause great damage to human, animals, land and also concrete.
Furthermore, eutrophication is a condition where high amount of amount of nitrogen
present in some pollutants gets developed on seas surface and turns itself into algae. This
phenomena cause extinction of aquatic animals. Toxic chemicals present in the air can force
wildlife species to move to new place and change their habitat. This leads to extinction of
their species.
In last but not least, Ozone exists in earths is responsible for protecting humans form
harmful ultraviolet rays. But due to the presence of unwanted gases such as
chlorofluorocarbons, hydro chlorofluorocarbons in the atmosphere causes depleting of
earths ozone layer. As a result, problems related to skin and eye will overloaded.
Dear audience, the effects of air pollutions are very harmful. So, I do hope you would
be aware of this issue and will work in concerted effort to reduce air pollution together.
Before I finish my speech today, I also would like to suggest some solutions for air pollution.
There are public can use public mode of transportation and try to make use of car pooling.
Besides, they must understand the concept of reduce, reuse and recycle, emphasis on clean
energy resources like solar, wind and geothermal and finally learn to use efficient devices.
Thank you.