Water And Air Pollution In Gabromogogy By Edward Humes

In our modern age people have become increasingly conscientious of the environment and the things that threaten it. One such issue is pollution; an old human habit that has been around for centuries which has escalated to a scale to which it has become almost common place and identifiable in various forms. Water and air pollution are two of the most frequently addressed and most dangerous to human health that the world has only just started to try and slow. The causes of these dangerous forms of pollution are simple and include various forms of land, water, and air pollution plus the pollutants. However the focus will be narrowed to dumping of waste in waters, industrial processes and their emissions, and the social or individual burning of …show more content…
This dumping isn’t always intentional however as some of the material drains from inland littering or from landfills which are not sealed properly or has eroded enough to let some of its contents loose. Then on top of that, industry just adds fuel to the fire—both literally and metaphorically—but that will be revisited. But the pollution of our waters is caused by illegal or otherwise authorized dumping of many materials. These include everything from milk jugs to hazardous waste (radio-active or toxic chemicals). Evidence of this has been gathered by several scholarly sources in a book called GARBOLOGY by Edward Humes in various chapters. Two of these chapters focus strictly on oceanic pollution and the chowder like accumulation of plastic in the multiple gyres. One of which, that is often brought up in these chapters, is the Pacific gyer better known—and otherwise referred to—as the Pacific Garbage Patch. To the naked and inexperienced or otherwise untrained eye the waters wouldn’t seem too odd at a glance, but if an onlooker looked closely they would be shocked at what they see. A massive expanse of water filled and covered in a mixture of plastic. It …show more content…
These range from cars to can openers and from plastics to planes. They encompass and cause the majority of the pollution on planet earth. Cars are often a centerpiece of this issue because they burn fossil fuels and produce hydrocarbons and carbon monoxide. These chemicals then go into the atmosphere and can cause acid rain and other disastrous environmental effects. Thus in effect it is causing pollution. Then there are plastic bottles, all shapes, sizes, and styles. Thrown away, blown away, and carelessly tossed to the side, plastic bottles are also a major part of the pollution issue. These bottles fill landfills, find their way into water and into animal digestive systems and attract chemicals that can kill upper level animals. With the ever versatile plastic bringing other pollutants with them and polluting the surrounding area it definitely makes the list of causes. There are so many more personal items that cause pollution, for instance electronic drills give off ozone when they drill. That’s what the funny smell is that is released from these electronics. Not all electronics do this but drills do put a fair amount of unhealthy ozone into the atmosphere. Then there is also the other electronics which require fossil fuel made electricity—in the majority of world homes—because electric companies find coal or natural gas cheaper to use than most reusable