Global warming has been a widespread issue for many years now, and thanks to Al Gore, lots of people now know about it. Al Gore describes our climate change in his essay entitled We Cant Wish Away Climate Change as man-made pollutants getting trapped inside our atmosphere, and heating up the earth. He talks about how the pollutants have been increasing rapidly with the growth in the burning of coal, oil, natural gas and forests, and temperatures have increased over the same period. The weather will soon change, as he says that hurricanes are predicted to grow stronger and more destructive, droughts are predicted to go on longer than usually, and flooding will increase as well. According to the EPA, humans are largely responsible for any climate change that we will experience or have experienced in the past. The greenhouse gases that are causing our atmosphere to heat up have come from humans burning fossil fuels for energy.
A contributor to global warming is air pollution. As mentioned before, most of the pollutants in the air are man-made. Energy consumption, road transport, agriculture and the production of goods are the main sources of air pollution (BMUB). While many countries can produce tons of air pollution, there are three main countries that have largely contributed to the rising atmospheric temperature: China, India, and the United States. This paper will focus on China and India.
China and India are the two largest countries in the entire world as far as population goes. Because of this, air pollution in those countries is a huge issue. The smog that is all over Asia is composed of nitrogen oxides, methane, and other compounds that cause the ozone layer to decrease. These particles settle into the lungs of the people that live there and cause lung cancer and many other illnesses. This disease in particular causes over 800 thousand deaths worldwide. Its causing India to spend from $350 to 400 million on treatment of these diseases, but still over 40 thousand Indians die early from these toxic fumes.