Describe a harmful environmental problem.
You should say:
- what type of transport you would choose
- what the purpose of your journey is
- what is it
and explain what can be done to prevent this environmental problem.
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Today, the world is facing a number of environmental problems which are making our world a very dangerous place to live in. While we all are more or less aware of some of these environmental problems, today, I would like to talk about just one of them which is air pollution.
Well, I don’t really think that I need to define what air pollution really is since it is one of the most burning environmental issues in today’s world. Yet, in simple words, air pollution is a type of environmental pollution that affects the air and is usually caused by smoke or other harmful gases, mainly carbon dioxides, sulphur and nitrogen. So, air pollution is the contamination of air due to the presence or introduction of a substance which has a poisonous effect on our earth’s atmosphere.
This air pollution, of course, is something that our earth is dealing with thousands of years, but since the industrial revolution started about more than 250 years ago, it went from bad to worst very rapidly. And because of this dangerous air pollution, the world is not only facing global warming due to excessive carbon dioxide, destruction of the ozone layer, as well as causing dangerous acid rain, but also causing some serious health issues in humans. In fact, air pollution can make people very sick by making it difficult to breathe. Such air pollution can also cause diseases such as lung cancer, respiratory infections, and heart disease. According to the World Health Organization, 2.4 million people die each year from air pollution. Air pollution can be especially dangerous to children living in big cities with bad smog.
Now, if we really want to prevent this serious environmental problem, we should all try to use lesser and lesser energy, like electricity and gasoline, because they emit excessive carbon in our earth’s atmosphere. Besides, we shouldn’t also cause deforestation because that would increase greenhouse gases and thus resulting in global warming. Finally, we also need to reduce the use of vehicles since they emit dangerous smoke and pollutants in the air.
