What Is Polution: What Is Pollution?

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WHAT IS POLLUTION??
- We have heard much about pollution, and we know that it is really bad for us and all the living creatures in our ecosystem. Pollution expresses the contaminations that are removed into the environment, and of course it causes lots of harmful changes. Pollution can take place as chemical substances or energy like heat, noise, light. Pollution can be made either by human or by the nature.

FORMS OF POLLUTION
- Air pollution: it is causes by the release of chemical waste from the factories, cars in the smoke form into the atmosphere. It includes carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). They are all the poisonous chemical substances that can slowly kill you if we breath in these everyday.
- Light pollution: because there are lots of harmful pollutants in our atmosphere, the ozone layer is eaten, so the ultraviolet ray from the sun exposes directly on our skin. That causes skin cancer.
- Noise pollution: as you can see everyday, when you go home from work or school, it is always so crowded and really noisy. This situation will cause lots of damages to your ears and brain too.
- Radioactive contaminent: it includes nuclaer power generation and nuclear weapon researches.
- Water pollution: water is polluted …show more content…

For example, you can have respiratory disease, lung cancer, skin cancer, and heart cancer as well. More than 10,000 people die every day because of drinking untreated water from the sewage, polluted river, lake. A 2010 analysis estimated that 1.2 million people died prematurely each year in China because of air pollution. And noise pollution is injurious to ears and your emotion, it can make you feel stress. Imagine that you are in a traffic jam with different noises from vehicles, voices of argueing people, you will definitely feel terrible right?? Finally, cancer and birth defects can be caused by chemical and radioactive

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