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Do you know what you're breathing into your lungs everyday? Pollution affects many animals,plants,our whole planet is affected by the pollution. "There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all" (1). The air pollution affects some plants and animals directly, the air pollution also affects the habitats of animals and plants along with the food and water that they need to survive. Those plants affected by the pollution are then processed for us to eat. “Because normal human activity is worse for nature than the greatest nuclear accident in history" (2). Us humans are what is creating the pollution which is killing our earth. We are the ones who came up with factories to make things for us and cars that let off exhaust that will drive us around,we are the ones putting our trash into our waters, we are the only ones to blame for the earth starting to die already. Acid rain is from the chemicals going up into the clouds combining with the rain droplets and then coming back down to the ground. When those acid droplets drop to the ground they harm the environment, the acid rain kills trees, harms animals and fish along with any other wildlife. Acid rain will destroy just about anything that it gets to, when the acid rain soaks into the soil it then will make an unfit habitat for the plants and the animals that live off those plants and have a home there. Air pollution called CFCs Have destroyed parts of the ozone layer which is the layer of the earth that keeps the harmful suns ultraviolet rays from coming in. Ultraviolet radiation causes skin cancer and damages plants and wildlife. Our planet is now rapidly getting warmer because of greenhouse gasses w...

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... pollution is not the cause of global warming and our earth dieing. Now pollution isn't the only thing killing our environment but it's also humans who are killing the earth too. We drive around in cars everyday that give off the pollution from gas exhaust,the factory's we use to make things everyday,the trash and waste we put into the waters all has a big part going into killing our earth.

"Air, Breathing and the Environment." Car Exhaust, Air Pollution and the Environment: Health Effects of Exhaust Chemicals. N.p., n.d. Web. 16 Nov. 2013 http://www.nutramed.com/environment/cars.htm (1)

"Air Pollution Affects Plants, Animals, and Environments." - Windows to the Universe. N.p.n.d. Web. 16 Nov http://www.windows2universe.org/earth/Atmosphere/wildlife_forests.html (2)

http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warming/pollution-overview/ (3)

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