Americans use and abuse what the earth has to give, taking its natural resources and leaving in their place pollution. Just a few examples of how Americans contribute to distroying the environment include the greenhouse effect, over consumption of natural resources, and pollution of the water and air. ... Electric Utility Environmental Statistics, the United States Greenhouse gas emissions generally follow trends in U.S. energy consumption. ... Because Americans choose to live in style, they contribute a great deal to the pollution of our environment. ...

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It is unrealistic for people to think we can address everyone's environmental needs when not even one country has mastered and solved the climate change problem within its own borders. ... In urban areas, pollution and environmental contamination are more common than that if their rural counterparts. This pollution caused by populated cities could then inadvertently affect rural areas due to contamination of ground soil and the air we all breathe. ... It is evident that both time scales and geographical scales administer resistance to the discovery of solutions that address the majority ...

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After the industrial revolution, we can understand the vital role of how humans are the major cause of global warming through air pollution, since this, global warming acts directly by: increase in respiratory diseases, and water shortages and acts indirectly by: natural disasters, diseases, and diet and nutrition due to changes in agriculture production. ... Approximately 158 million Americans live in counties where air pollution exceeds national health-based standards. ... Environmental Protection Agency to be "impaired" by pollution. ... I believe we cannot stop global warming fr...

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Global warming is the most urgent environmental problem the world will face in the next decade and the next century. ... In the last decades the problems of atmospheric change have been gravely advanced by pollution resulting from human activities. These environmental changes pose a real threat to the lives of people and wild life. ...

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The following article will briefly summarize some of the key environmental issues that scientists are currently studying. ... Public Attitudes The attitude of the general public toward environmental issues is very important. Since environmental problems exist on a global or at least a community level, they often must be dealt with by government policy. ... For example, in the United States many people associate the environmental movement with the anti-Establishment radicals of the 1960s. ... Some describe conservationists as "tree-huggers" or "environmental wackos." ...

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Indirectly, ecological disturbances, air pollution, changes in food and water supplies, and coastal flooding are all examples of possible impacts that might affect human health. ... For example from the Environmental Protection Association, an increase in the salt content of the Delaware and Chesapeake bays is thought to have decreased the number of oysters able to live in those waters. ...

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Many people have adopted these two ideas that it has poisoned their minds not to think of the adversely underlying impacts on the environment, human health, and traffic problems However, a number of environmental scholars who are concerned about the bad impacts have considered the reduction of private vehicles with the introduction to public transportation. ... However, it is as the whole country to concern about the problems of the increase in vehicles that surely generate the pollution to affect not only to the environment but also to the health of the citizens as well as congestion. ...

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The greenhouse effect as stated in the dictionary is the effect produced as greenhouse gases allow incoming solar radiation to pass through the Earth's atmosphere, but prevent most of the outgoing infrared radiation from the surface and lower atmosphere from escaping into outer space. This process o...

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Some claim that it should be treated as a serious environmental threat and that global action should be taken. ... (Parsons 68) New energy sources need to be found, ones that will reduce air pollution are key to solve global warming. ...

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"Some of the primary sources of pollution include automobiles, municipal waste (garbage and sewage), agriculture pesticides, and industrial processes- (Barbour 48). ... Environmental Protection Agency. ...

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However, developing countries in the construction period must be produced to have a lot of pollution, carbon emissions will be high, the West in the development period, too, but the West is a historical account does not count, as the Anglo-American history, 1,100 tons of carbon emissions per capita in China only 66 tons, not counting the historical account is not fair for developing countries. ... In my opinion, the movie combines two storylines: one about the environmental problem and one about Al Gore's life, both connected by his involvement in the global warming. ...

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