...Essay on Environmental Pollution: Causes, Effects and Solution On February 5, 2014 By Ankita MitraCategory: Environmental pollution refers to the introduction of harmful pollutants into the environment. The major types of environmental pollution are air pollution, water pollution, noise pollution, thermal pollution, soil pollution and light pollution. Deforestation and hazardous gaseous emissions also leads to environmental pollution. During the last 10 years, the world has witnessed severe rise in environmental pollution. We all live on planet earth, which is the only planet known to have an environment, where air and water are two basic things that sustain life. Without air and water, the earth would be like the other planets – no man, no animals, no plants. The biosphere in which living beings have their sustenance has oxygen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, argon and water vapour. All these are well balanced to ensure and help a healthy growth of life in the animal world. This balance does not only help the life-cycles of animals and plants, but it also creates the perennial sources of minerals and energies without which the human civilization of to-day could not be built. It is for this balance that the human life and other forms of existence have flourished on earth for so many thousands of years. Also read: Short paragraph on Pollution But man, as the most intelligent animal, never stopped being inquisitive, nor was he content with the bounties of nature. His quest for...
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...Draft essay Since the Second World War, development has increased rapidly. Modern societies hope to develop the standard of living through growth in economy and technology. However, development also has some negative impact on society. In addition, the negative impact of development is becoming more serious, especially in developing counties. In this essay, the term ‘the social cost of development’ refers to damage to society caused by activities aimed at achieving the goals of society. The concept of the ‘development’ is considered to include the development goals and all systems and legal measures used to achieve development. Further to this the concept that social cost is‘too high’ is considered to mean that too much damage is caused to society before it is possible to achieve the development goals. In view of the above this essay will argue that the social cost of development is too high. This will be demonstrated by analysing of the impact of the social cost of development on the environmental pollution and health. Developing countries will cost the environment to develop the economy. A major reason for this is that it is commonly that in older to solve the poverty, developing countries will cost the environment to develop the economy. Firstly, during economic growth, environmental degradation will increase. According to the result of research by Dinda, “When a country achieves a sufficiently high standard of living, people attach increasing value to environmental amenities”...
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...China’s Ecological Environment People, businesses and governments are starting to understand the reality of globalisation, and how it is affecting their environment. The implications from industrialisations which results in over exhausting natural resources, has caused environmental degradation, and most of this is done by human activity especially international business activities. This essay will look at the impact of economic globalisation on China while focusing on China’s ecological environment. To start off, the essay will look at the definitions of globalisation and economy, followed by China’s change from being an agriculturally farming intensive country towards rapid industrialisation. Because of this activity pollution, emissions as well as environmental degradation resulted in serious ecological problems. International bodies such as the Kyoto Protocol, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the United Nations Environment Programme, have stressed the importance or reducing pollution and emissions in developing countries in order to maintain sustainability. Cancer villages are becoming a major concern in China and that was enough to make the Chinese political party to take responsibility and change their views on the ecological environment. The question here is can China implement these changes to maintain sustainability for future generations, and if so what methods are they using to achieved this by? According to Morrison (2011), globalisation...
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...Environmental studies and Fore by admin on Monday, December 12th 2011 No Comment in Essay examples Tags: Environmental studies and Fore, Environmental studies and Fore essay There have been several environmental changes in the world recently occurring due to the pollution of the environment. Increase in production, manufacturing, the use of motor vehicles and basically dumping waste into the environment. This has brought about different types of pollution, each resulting in negative effects due to reducing quality air and other environmental features. If things keep going down this road, the future generations may not have a clean environment to come to, and it may even signify the end of our world. Some of the major environmental pollutions include air pollution, sound pollution, soil pollution and water pollution. Air pollution occurs due to some dangerous gases being released into the environment in large quantities. If the gases are released in small quantities and over a long time, the environment has ways of cleaning itself out, but due to the increase in development and population, this is not possible. This threat for the future world has become a world issue which requires a quick and fast measure taken against it. Otherwise, we might just destroy the only thing that rejuvenates itself and supports our ecosystem. It has been clear though from the past that this issue will not be gotten rid of so easily. This is because even the problem itself...
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...Essay On The Pollution ESSAY The word, 'pollution' means to make dirty. Pollution causes imbalance in the environment. Environmental pollution is a serious problem. Nearly 35 percent of India's total land area is subject to serious environmental pollution. Industrialization has led to urbanization, which has added to the pollution problem. Air pollution is the most dangerous form of pollution. land and water pollution have worsened the situation. Pollution causes several types of harmful disease. We must control pollution for our survival. The word pollution 'pollution', has been derived form a Latin word, 'pollutionem,' which means to make dirty. Pollution is the process of making the environment. i.e. the land, water and air dirty by adding harmful substances to it. Pollution causes imbalance in the environment. This imbalance has threatened the very survival of life. It is a threat to the whole world. Environmental pollution is a serious problem of the industrialized societies. The industrial development and the Green Revolution have adversely affected the environment. People have converted the life supporting systems of the entire living world into their own resources and have vastly disturbed the natural ecological balance. Serious degradation and depletion have been caused thought overuse, misuse and mismanagement of resources to meet the human greed. Environmental pollution is defined as the unfavorable alteration of our surroundings. It is by product of man's...
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...reactions. Is water natural? Imagine not being able to drink clean water as a result of pollution. Water pollution is a very critical environmental issue and is harmful to the health and life of both humans and animals. Humans around the world must become aware of the dangers and the role they play in the quality of the water around them and improve in the ways water pollution is treated. In this essay, one will ascertain a thorough understanding of some of the causes and some of the dangers of water pollution and ways to prevent it. Even though water is a vital part of human life, many of the causes of water pollution come from humans and their ignorance. To name a few, water pollution is caused by agricultural runoffs, leaking sewer lines, and accidental leaks and spills. Agricultural runoffs are the result of manmade products like pesticides, insecticides, or herbicides and other waste from a large area of land. These products are made to help crops during their growth process and prevent them from being eaten by insects. As a result, these chemicals are washed into waters through natural processes that form increased nitrates and phosphates that are harmful to humans and have a very harsh impact on the environment. Global warming aside, agricultural runoffs are considered one of today’s biggest environmental threats. Leaking sewer lines are another cause of water pollution. Sewer lines are manmade instruments that carry human waste to different industrial plants...
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...“Is Air Pollution a Belief?” Winter-Koger’s essay “What on Earth Are We Doing?” discusses many environmental problems, e.g.: ozone depletion, global warming, overpopulation, deforestation, air and water pollution, topsoil loss, and coral reef destruction. While it is difficult to isolate one problem to discuss, as they are all equally, important environmental problems; I have decided to research the effects of outdoor air pollution. I am interested particularly in whether the United States has made any positive changes for cleaner air, or added to the negative impacts on two of six different types of air pollution-ozone(smog) and particle pollution (particulate matter) since Winter-Koger’s essay (2004). Air pollution is one of the many environmental problems faced each day around the world. Man has always been a solid contributor to environmental pollution, a problem passed on from generation to generation. Air pollution is not a belief that one has; but a real problem that absolutely does exist. Many people have dedicated their lives to finding a solution to the detrimental effects of air pollution. And many people, unknowingly, and some ignorantly, have dedicated their lives to contributing to air pollution. To better understand the effects of air pollution, one must first understand the definition of air pollution and how it is caused. You may disagree and feel you know the definition of air pollution; but ask the person next to you to define air pollution, and soon...
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...Pollution of the environment in general is an issue in the area that I live in. There seems to be a trend of pollution just in general by the population of people. There are traces of trash, chemicals dumped, waste not properly disposed of, and pollution in the air due to vehicles with improper emissions. Pollution like this can find its way into important resources like water supply, food supply, and the very air the population breathes. In this essay, I'm going to describe the issues of environmental pollution, and the problems that could be tied to them. Pollution of the environment is an issue that is an issue throughout the country. It is one of the greatest challenges to combat due to the fact that it takes the participation of all citizens in order to deal with the issue of environmental pollution. Some people are not even aware that environmental pollution could be the catalyst in many different diseases that some have come across. Unfortunately, what people don't know, they can not take action against because they do not understand the problem. When the subject of the environmental health comes up especially with regards to a small town, one of the main concerns that could come about is the quality of the water if there is pollution. Water is an essential source to all forms of life, so if it is polluted, that means that it has access to contaminate any forms of life. It should be said that the water quality is extremely important to human...
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...Most people would accept that one of the highest priorities today is to find a solution to the various environmental problems facing mankind. It has been suggested that the best way to achieve this is for government to raise the price of flue. It is acknowledged in this essay that, however, this is not necessarily the case. However, this practice probably has insignificant influences on reducing the environmental pollution. If raising the prices of fuel, it might lead to the reduction in the number of vehicles utilized by people due to the higher expense. Nonetheless, we can not deny that there are a large number of plutocrats who already own a tremendous property using the cars as well, most of whom may not care much about the uplifting of flue’s price, and then they will utilize the vehicle as usual as before even with the higher price. Thus, the problems of environment could not be tackled completely and effectively. On the other hand, there are still other environmental problems left unsolved. The worsening/deteriorating world, particularly in these decades, witnesses an increasing variety of pollutions such as water pollution, deforestation and global-warming. As vehicle emissions is neither the major nor the sole cause of air pollution, rising price is very much likely to be ineffective in solving the problem of air pollution, let alone other pollutions. Hence, the environment cannot be improved just by the approach of raising the price of fuel. Overall, concerning...
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... | |Student Number: |201413996 | | | | |Unit Code No.: |HOS201 | | | | |Unit Title: |Operation and Environmental Management | | | | |Assessment No.: |Individual essay | | | | |Lecturer: |Ms.Trinidad Navarro | | |...
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...(a) Why are environmental problems considered to be an example of market failure? Environmental problems are considered to be an example of market failure because environmental problems not only compound poverty and low standards of living, but the problems of common access resources or weak regulations result in massive negative externalities and a significant threat to sustainability. Market failure is defined as when community surplus is not maximized due to problems preventing resources from being allocated in an optical manner. Negative externalities, also used in this essay, is defined as a decision or a product that leads to it having a larger society cost than private cost. This essay will be split into different parts to tackle this problem: 1) Examples of market failures and environmental problems 2) Explanation of environmental problems as negative externalities 3) Allocative inefficiency and overproduction at free market price due to marginal social cost being larger than marginal private cost There are different ways of market failures. Firstly, the lack of public goods is a market failure. Public goods are goods that would not be provided at all in a fee market. Since they are goods that are of benefit to the society, the lack of public goods in the free market is considered to be a market failure. (…) However, the main focus of this essay would be on the existence of externalities, which is a type of market failure as well as the negative externalities...
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...INTRODUCTION In recent year, pollution of air has be given an eye as a factor that will bring big impact in affecting this planet. A french mechanical engineer that are also expert in catalytic oil refining found an idea that helped to decrease the rate of air pollution by building a machine that used in most vehicles and the machine is design to convert toxic gasses produced by vehicles into gasses that are harmful to our environment in order to lower down the rate of pollution that causes by air. The purpose of this essay is to discuss the impacts that will cause by the increasing of air pollution and what can be done by human in order to lower the pollution rate. Other than that, this essay will also be focus on the function of catalytic converter and how the exchanging of gasses in the machine helped to lower the rate of air pollution. Finally, the limitation and achievement of catalytic converter will be pointed out and discussed at the end of this essay. DISCUSSION Air pollution happens when the air contains gasses, dust, exhaust or scent in hurtful sums. That is, the substance which could be destructive to the wellbeing or solace of people and creatures or which could make harm plants and materials. ( EPA VICTORIA, 2012). Leonardo Academy (2013) claims that the main factors of causing air pollution is from the goods and services human buy. The goods and services human bought used energy in producing the product and delivery system. Air pollution is bought about for the most...
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...However this situation has also brought about the regrettable result of environmental pollution. Especially, air pollution is one of the serious environmental pollution problems because of the impact it has had on organisms on the earth. For this reason, it is necessary for governments to spend more money in order to stem this pollution. In this essay, I will explain about this point of view. Firstly, people struggle to live with the severe diseases which are caused by air pollution. Respiratory and cardiovascular diseases are representative diseases. In East Asia, For example, 130,000 premature deaths and 50-70 million incidents of respiratory illness occur each year. Moreover, according to research, the incidence of cardiovascular disease and death are associated with the long-term exposure to air pollution. For these reasons, it is clear that air pollution has a harmful effect on human’s health. Another reason is that air pollution has resulted in serious complications in the natural environment. For instance, global warming, which is caused by greenhouse gas in turn caused by air pollutants, increase the average temperature of Earth’ atmosphere and oceans. Acid rain is caused by air pollution, it makes manmade structures, rock formations, forests and other natural landmarks quickly deteriorate. It also causes fish kills and other detrimental effects to aquatic environments. Therefore, air pollution brings significant problems to the natural environment. Finally, governments...
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...The purpose of this essay is to analyse the benefits and shortcomings of Environmental Management Systems in relation to Canon Inc. The first part of the essay consists of an introduction to Environmental Management Systems (EMS), ISO 14001and a brief introduction on Canon Inc. First of all, Canon Inc is a multinational company which is specialised in the manufacture of imaging and optical products (Canon 2014). It is very important for an organisation like Canon Inc to implement a proper EMS, as the company’s business acts can have a lot of negative impacts on the environment especially since it is a manufacturing company. Now, why should Environmental Management Systems be used? Environmental Management systems have become an essential tool for almost all organisations like Canon Inc, as they have to deal with environmental issues such as how to deal with pollution, especially when you are aware of the fact that the company in question’s business activities can prove to be harmful to the environment. Environmental Management Systems helps the company to minimise the impacts of their activities. For companies like Canon Inc, which have large turnover rates, are more likely to get larger returns on the cost of certification, which is why Canon Inc has been chosen for the purpose of this essay, as large organisations like them realise the importance of having proper EMS and ISO 14001 certification (CAMPOS 2014). Now, what is an Environmental Management System. The basic definition...
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...scale and in prominent pervasiveness, Nigeria is generally perceived as a newly-emerged modern state, which is characterized by rapid industrialization and extensive urbanization (Jiboye,2011).In particular, the term “State” is defined as the politically organized people of a particular land(Antai& Moradi, 2010). When it comes to the cohesion and stability of modernized state, it refers to the condition of a system which is the condition of Nigeria as a whole. In this essay, the threats on the cohesion and stability of Nigeria induced by industrialization and urbanization are assessed in threefold: health threats, criminal threat and threat regarding food insecurity. The aforementioned threats to be analyzed are intertwined with the concept of urbanization and industrialization and the repercussions of food insecurity and the physical health threat in urbanized cities are interrelated with the criminal threat, which could be accounted by mental illness(Antai& Moradi, 2010). With this introductory overview, the essay proceeds to outline the modern situation of urbanization and industrialization in Nigeria with definitions conceptualized. The following part is an evaluation of the health threats comprised of two section, in which the overcrowding issue is explored and illustrative case study focusing on health surveillance in Niger Delta is examined. The next part dwells on the positive correlation between crime rate and urbanization. In the final part, the risk of imperative food...
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