We never really think about the air that breathe indoors. Air pollution is the single greatest environmental health risk in the world. Millions of people die every year from being exposed to air pollution. According to National Geographic, air pollution is often in the victim’s own home. Indoor air pollutants include mold, pollen, smoke, carbon monoxide, etc. Another major part to air pollution is Ozone, which is a gas. When ozone forms air pollution, it’s also called smog. Ozone, or smog is often found in cities and is formed from burning fuels. Air pollution causes a greater risk for health related …show more content…
But going green is an excellent to improve and help protect the environment. Not only will it help the environment it will also save on energy cost and consumption. Going green is especially good for improving your health, by decreasing the amount of pollutants that get into the air, both indoors and outdoors. Going green helps to reduce our carbon footprints.
Using renewable energy is a proven way to improve public health, quality of life, and environmental quality. Generating electricity from renewable energy rather than fossil fuels can give the public much more health benefits.
A program that is voluntary and encourages organizations to go green is the Green Power Partnership created by EPA. The program’s main goal is to encourage ways to reduce the impact that is done to our environment. The program was launched in 2001 in order to increase the use of renewable electricity in the United States.
In order to preserve what we have left of the environment, and not cause any more harm to it, humanity must come together and think about the long term effects of materialist items. We must stop polluting and littering. We must come up with better ways to conserve energy. If we want to maintain Earth humanity must