Carbon monoxide which is released from cars and furnaces can be the most deadly out of all four pollutants. ... I tend to car pool but not quite enough, in Maryland there are designated lanes called car pool lanes for 2 or more people, in some situations these lanes are great when traffic is slow. ... Some of these include: 1) I probably will not buy an electric car for one because it is not cost effective and I can cut back on car fumes that cause air pollution by simply not driving. ... I know that ozone that we generate through cars, etc. are major contributors to the reduction in our lungs...

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Imagine when you walk on the street, you smell disgusting tints of exhaust emission from various private cars. ... People who own cars may experience the pain of paying so much for the gas and parking fees and the violation fees if any. ... Also, there is dedicated bus lane on the road, which means bus may travel faster than private cars because of less traffic jam. ... Moreover, it prevents the driving fatigue because people do not have to keep focus on the road situation as they in private cars. A recent research shows that private cars contribute almost 90% to the waste emissions and noise....

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Cars are powered by a number of fluids and emit harmful gases which are toxic to humans and animals. ... An efficient fix to these harmful emissions would be switching to all electric cars that do not use any type of fuel besides electricity so there will not be any carbon emissions from millions of cars daily. ...

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With today's common knowledge of what might happen in the near future if significant changes aren't made in the lifestyle of most people it's hard to understand why 70 million cars continue to vomit their poison into the air everyday. ... Energy-efficient refrigerators and electric cars are available but they are different; beyond a simple trip to an appliance store or the car dealer, there are more steps involved in acquiring one. ... There is not enough research being conducted on alternative washing detergents, or food containers, or cars. ...

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Other examples of ways in which people can help slow down and possibly stop climate change are: being more energy efficient, use renewable power like wind farms and solar energy, avoiding processed foods and eating organic foods, recycling and reducing the amount of waste we produce, driving a fuel efficient car and even just properly maintaining existing cars. ...

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During the past one hundred years global warming has caused the temperature of Earth to rise. Since 1900 life span has doubled, manufacturing has increased, and gases have multiplied. Scientists believe that the drastic increase of greenhouse gases could lead to an increase in the average temperatur...

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As a society, the greenhouse effect will inevitably be of dire concern to us within the next century. The potential for future ecological damage is grueling, and should not go overlooked. Over the recent centuries our world as we know it has evolved greatly, whether looking at the creation of the ...

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The word currently is always advancing in technology making life easier for us people that live here. Over the years these actions taken to advance in technology and science have affected the environment adversely by polluting the environment. Environmental pollution is the contamination of the ear...

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With the acceleration of global climate change and urbanization, natural disasters are becoming a serious challenge faced by people through social and economic development. Big cities which are the main place with a highly concentrated population and economic development have not escape this disaste...

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In this day and age, global warming is an unquestionable fact, which proves that our planet and its climate are in trouble. Global warming affects all areas of our life whether it's politics, economics or socially. The study of global warming involves many sciences in order to look at the causes of global warming and try to find the best solutions to reduce the impact of our civilization on the planet. An interdisciplinary research in this field is important, because global warming is caused by many factors and has an impact on different circles of our life. For instance, climate science ...

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According to the article "Air Pollution" from national geographic society, human activities in the past 150 years such as emissions of cars, planes, power plants by burning of fossil fuels have increased carbon-dioxide gas level higher than they have been in the past thousands of years in the atmosphere. ...

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The United States is the world's largest producer and consumer of environmental protection technologies worldwide (EPA). The Clean Air Act was set forth in March of 1960's by the United States Congress. The clean air act of 1970 is a federal law that controls the air emissions from steady and moving...

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The geographic and weather conditions on Earth had changed for the past billions of years. These changes had caused numerous species to disappear. The planet pasted extremely hot seasons and also frozen times known as "ice ages." Scientists have knowledge of these changes because all the fossils and...

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"Each one of us is a cause of global warming, but each one of us can make choices to change that with the things we buy, the electricity we use, the cars we drive; we can make choices to bring our individual carbon emissions to zero. ...

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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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Environmental pollution is one of the greatest problems we face, causing serious and permanent damage to our planet. Numerous individuals seem to be more and more concerned about protecting our environment. Regardless of this, not many of us are actually making an effort to reduce the harmful chemic...

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While some of the greater emissions in richer countries in fact arise from the greater level of industrial and other economic activity, large amounts of emissions are associated with individuals driving large cars long distances, heating large homes, eating an affluent diet, and consuming other comparatively luxurious goods. ...

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While some of the greater emissions in richer countries in fact arise from the greater level of industrial and other economic activity, large amounts of emissions are associated with individuals driving large cars long distances, heating large homes, eating an affluent diet, and consuming other comparatively luxurious goods. ...

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Biomass is organic material made from plants and animals. Biomass contains stored energy from the sun. Plants absorb the sun's energy in a process called photosynthesis. When biomass is burned, this stored energy is released as heat. Biomass is a renewable energy source because we can always grow mo...

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What would you do if every day you had to worry about floods wiping out your house? Well, for many people in Cambodia they do have to worry about such things everyday due to Global Warming. From this, problems such as starvation, extreme weather, and lower standard of living have arisen. Cambodia, a...

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Environmental pollution is one of the greatest troubles that the earth is facing today, causing serious and permanent damage to our planet. Numerous individuals seem to be more and more concerned about protecting our environment. Regardless of this, not many of us are actually making an effort to re...

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Ralph Torrie has generated many realistic solutions such as requiring an energy audit every time a house is sold, similar to how cars have emission tests. (3) Such a bylaw would cause drastic changes in our emission output as statistics like "40 percent of Canadian homes have no basement insulation and 62 percent heat with inefficient furnaces- would decline rapidly. ...

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GLOBAL WARMING Humanity is conducting an unintended, uncontrolled, globally pervasive experiment whose ultimate consequences could be second only to nuclear war. Fossil fuel burning, deforestation, and the release of industrial chemicals are rapidly heating the Earth to temperatures not experienced in human memory. Environmentally we have reached a point of unprecedented damage. Limiting global heating and climatic change is the central environmental challenge of our time. If it does not change, human health, birds fish, and many types of ecosystems will be permanently harmed. ...

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