Air Pollution Discussion
Air pollution represents a mixture of gases and solid particles in the air. The emissions from cars, chemicals from factories, pollen, dust, and mold spores are examples of the suspended particles that result in air pollution. Ozone is another major air pollutant. The air pollution has a significant impact both on the human and other living organisms in the ecosystem. One of the primary air pollutants is the burning of fossil fuels (energy use). The burning of fossil fuels results in the release of gases, the carbon gases, and chemicals into the air, harmful to the plants within the ecosystem when combined with the atmospheric water to form acidic rain (Follett et al., 2005). Moreover, air pollution from these gases from burning fuels, methane, and Caron IV Oxide result in increased atmospheric temperature
as a result of climate change.
United States is one of the nations that have been affected by the high amounts of greenhouse gases with EPA study, indicating that Caron IV Oxide amounts to about 81 percent and methane 11% of the total greenhouse gases released in the atmosphere (Follett et al., 2005). The nation, through the Department of Environment, has, however, made significant progress with the establishment of the Clean Air Act to strive and control climate change. China is another nation that has been significantly impacted by the green gases due to high amounts of energy use from its manufacturing sector with the emission of the carbon gases amounting to 27.51 percent of the world emission. At the same time, the European Union remains at 9.33% of the total gas emissions (Cole et al., 1997). Thus, greenhouse gases have a significant impact on climate change as a result of the changes in weather patterns that affect agriculture and destabilize the equilibrium of the earth’s atmosphere.
The various consequences such as a rise in ocean temperature, rising maximum and minimum temperatures, and rising sea levels have impacts such as health risks among humans, water crisis, and hunger, especially in the developing nations. It also associated with the spread of pests and pathogens that impacts agriculture, and thus appropriate measures should get established to reduce the harm.
References
Cole, C. V., Duxbury, J., Freney, J., Heinemeyer, O., Minami, K., Mosier, A., … & Zhao, Q. (1997). Global estimates of potential mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions by agriculture. Nutrient cycling in Agroecosystems, 49(1-3), 221-228.
Follett, R. F., Shafer, S. R., Jawson, M. D., & Franzluebbers, A. J. (2005). Research and implementation need to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture in the USA.