Keep The World Clean

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Today, air pollution is becoming a contemporary topic in our society. With the developing, air pollution can be seen in many parts of the world, it is one of the serious problems the world’s people are facing. Basing on interviews of two experts and researches of air pollution, global warming strongly related to our health. And finding measures or solutions which can control or stop air pollution seems imminent.

Pollution is the introduction of various contaminants into the natural environment such that it results in disorder and harm to the ecosystem, to include the living organisms in that specific ecosystem. Pollution can assume both chemical forms and energy forms. Pollution can also occur naturally, and there are man-made pollutants as well. Industrial pollution does the greatest damage to the natural environment. One popular historical occurrences of massive industrial pollution is the Great Smog of 1952 in London, making the Industrial Revolution as the triggering point of harmful industrial pollution as people know it today. The setting up of many factories burning fossil fuels for production has led to unprecedented levels of air pollution (Makarenko, 2007.) Also, factories which used to be situated beside bodies of water used to dump their industrial discharge onto these rivers, and this combined with untreated human waste has led to the pollution of the waterways in many countries.

The major forms of industrial pollution are air, noise, radioactive and soil contamination, thermal and water pollution. Air pollution is the release of chemicals and other contaminants into the atmosphere. The main air polluting substances are carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), along with nitrogen commonly...

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