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Savannah Vaughn
Mrs. Klimas
English 10 Pre-AP
16 January 2018
Pollution
Pollution is defined as the presence in or introduction into the environment of a substance
or thing that has harmful or poisonous effects. Air pollution has become one of the most difficult
issues not only the United States, but in the world. People everywhere are doing as much as they
can to decrease the amount of unwanted toxins in the air and increase the amount of healthy
oxygen to breathe.
Agren, Christer. “Editorial: Protect People and Nature from Air Pollution.” Editorial: Protect
protect-people-and-nature-air-pollution.
Author, Christer Agren, gives input by expressing his opinions and found facts on air
pollution. His main topic in this editorial focuses in on how to protect people and nature from the
harmful air pollution. Although air pollutants in Europe have gone down significantly in the past
years because of the less polluting cars and power plants, it is still being over-run by the number
of industrial usages such as more cars on the streets because of high population increase,
factories, and much more. The air we breathe has become cleaner, but it is still unhealthy to the
point where it is considered deadly to some extent. Agren points out how some people can argue
that this is just a “natural phenomenon” but the facts he backed himself up with can prove them
wrong. These health impacts carry enormous costs to society. In just the year 2010, although
being almost a decade ago, the amount that damage that was done to health was between 330 and
940 billion dollars. This requires a significant “step-up” in what needs to be done to save the
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planet since the health benefits alone outweigh by far the additional costs for emissions control.
By saying this, the point that can get across is that there are health issues that eventually lead to
economic issues causing a whole chaotic jumble. After saying the facts about how it
economically affects people as well, he leads into talking about the extents they are willing to
Argen explains finally on how the EU and the government are currently taking
precautionary measure to decrease the amount of toxins that we breathe into our body. The small
particles we breathe are only making our life sentence shorter, and the thing is, there is nothing
we can do about it because we can’t see the tiny toxins. Also, not only does it affect us, it also
affects biodiversity and nature which helps release oxygen into our atmosphere and builds up the
ozone layer. It is also required for a “higher quality of life” for people here on Earth. For the
pasts decade, scientists and air quality index workers have been slowly coming to solutions such
as, “minimizing the use of fossil fuels.” Argen says how this “is key to resolving both climate
change and air pollution,” because it cuts severe emissions such as fine particular matters unseen
to the naked eye. Maintaining these chemicals can make the air safer by a long far and it might
not be noticeable to the naked eye, but it will help the body in the long run by a ton. Reducing
car usage and meat consumption is also detrimental to help. Pollution can be solved with these
methods and Argen uses thorough detail to explain how it can be done regardless of everyone
else’s opinions.
Ansari, Azadeh. “Air Pollution Deaths on the Rise, Study Predicts.” CNN, Cable News Network,
In CNN’s article written on Sept. 16, 2015, Azadeh Ansari talks about the causes, effects,
and precautions revolving around air pollution. The main topic of this scientific article is to
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explain into detail about how more than six million people could die each year from severe air
pollution around the world. It has one of the most major impacts on deaths worldwide, ranging
from babies that aren’t even born yet, to people in the retiring age. The study suggests that the air
we breathe outside can be more harming than people could ever imagine. He begins right off the
bat by applying ethos. He states a fact given from the World Resources Institute that says how
burning fossil fuels for electricity is the leading cause and main driver of climate change. Ansari
begins with that cause, so he can lead up to the effects such as explaining how exposure to air
pollution particles contributes to the risk of developing cardiovascular and respiratory diseases.
He applies a comparison of HIV and malaria to emphasize how deadly this actually turns out to
be by saying how AIDS and Malaria deaths are 2.8 million, but the number of deaths from air
pollution in the environment is half a million more. Ansari, so far, has talked about the causes
and effects that air pollution has on our environment and people in the world.
The next two things that Ansari talks about in his study are air pollution deaths in
different areas and the country-specific changes to affect health. The first highlight he goes over
is how it affects different regions. The study examined outdoor emission sources in urban and
rural environments. The contributors to this issue are residential and commercial use, agriculture,
power generation, industry, biomass, burning, natural causes, and land traffic. Facts were found
and elaborated on when he says how agricultural emissions were the leading cause of premature
air pollution deaths in countries such as the Eastern United States and Europe followed by traffic
and power generation emissions. The study found Ammonia released from fertilizers mixes with
other sources of air pollution can have a big impact on air quality, researchers found. The study
concluded that some areas of the world have more pollutants in the air than others. Larger cities
have a much higher level than rural areas with more plants and trees to release oxygen into the
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air and less cars, factories and much more industrial items to pollute the air. Testing the air for
the amount of toxins can be much more difficult than it seems because of the developing
countries lack of funding which results them to take extreme measures to find out the levels
there. Changes that are going to be made begin to be talked about when Ansari states how Air
pollution solutions have to be on a country-by-country basis since their levels of it in the air are
different. In the United States and Europe, it could be most beneficial to take measures to lessen
the impact of agricultural emissions. In Asia, researchers said, implementing better control over
small burning sources and upgrades to new technology would go a long way. They announce to
take small precautions every day to minimize the amount of harmful gas in the air. Pollution has
become a major problem in the world today, and it is important to talk about all the causes,
Fountain, Henry, and Brad Plumer. “What the Climate Report Says About the Impact of Global
Warming.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 3 Nov. 2017,
www.nytimes.com/2017/11/03/climate/climate-change-
impacts.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FAir%2BPollution&action=click&content
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www.worldwildlife.org/threats/pollution.