Friday, May 22, 2015

Pollution

After the Industrial Revolution in England, a watershed point in human history, a new era have opened up where technology assists human in various things. Factories and industries grew from the sheer ground that was once green and full of life. Cars run on roads that have been cut through various platforms of nature. We now live in an era where pollution is everywhere. Water, land, air, we all see it.


The basic definition of pollution is the contamination of the natural environment that cause severe changes. It could be done with chemicals, gases, and other various form of toxic that would bring harm towards nature. There are 3 kinds of pollution: Water, air, and land pollution. Water pollution is when the water is contaminated. Well known contaminants would be sewage, trash, chemicals, oil.

Air pollution is most famous with pictures of factories emitting columns after columns of gases into the air. There are also the exhaust of vehicles, burning fuels, and methane from cows. Air pollution contributes to the Green House effect and global warming. Climate is changing all over the world. Evidently, in Vietnam around this time (end of May,) there should be rain, but instead it is excruciatingly hot and humid.

Finally, it is land pollution. Land pollution can be as small as littering to as big as trash lands. We use many materials that cannot be recycled, and the idea of recycling things we use has only came to be a big thing the past decades. We did not understand that our resources would run out, and also we are polluting the environment that we live in. Would you want your house to be on a pile of trash? 

To save the world, we must act now. Here are methods that we could use. Use materials that could be recycled. Do not waste resources since everything is limited. Strict laws against factories that pollute the environment. Strict control of processing waste and gases. Reduce the amount of energy that you use (turn off lights, ACs, TVs, etc when you don't use). There are various methods, but are we all motivated enough to act accordingly to save the world? Only time will tell.




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