Environmental Issues of the world
People often look at the world with a jaded eye, seeing and addressing problems, without any knowledge to back them up. To apply this idea to the world we live in, one can look at three basic environmental problems the world faces today; acid rain, ozone depletion, and global warming. Each of the three has can be traced to irresponsible use of synthetic and organic chemicals, each of the three can also be looked at in terms of their chemistry. Without a firm grasp of the science behind these three global concerns (among others) it is far fetched to think that people can have enough comprehension of the facts to create effective means of slowing down and ideally reversing any or all of these three pending catastrophes. Acid rain has ravaged crops, destroyed eco-systems, and generally been an all around detriment to both natural and human environments. Acid rain is a term for the chemical bonding of certain industrial chemicals and pollutants with condensed water in the atmosphere that contains precipitation with low Ph, or in other words acid rain. The largest cause of acid rain is sulphur dioxide. Sulphur dioxide is released naturally in the environment through volcanoes, decomposing organic material, and sea spray. T
rain is prevalent in places where there are many other air pollutants, as ammonia, among others, acts as a catalyst in creating the bonds. Nitric oxide and nitric dioxide is the second largest cause of acid rain, and its combinations with water and hydrogen in the atmosphere are similar. One problem with acid rain is that it does not follow international boundaries. As a result of the way jet streams work, Canada has suffered the most from the effects of American-born sulphur dioxide. This is also the case in many other regions around the world, as many South African and Asian countries have suffered the loss of much vegetation as a result of European, Russian, and Chinese Industrialism. The United states had the largest emissions numbers since the introduction of fossil fuel burning, but has lowered its numbers significantly in the past fifteen years by placing emissions limitations on automobile manufacturers as well as industrial companies. The problem is that in many! greatly in the past fifty years, and will continue to do so until this problem is stabilized. If the Ozone layer is not protected, the world will suffer the consequences, consequences that are extremely sever and capable of ravaging the planet. bal warming is a very real threat, and although emissions laws are just now starting to be put into effect in the United States, developing countries often have no regard for our laws or the environment. Global warming is a very serious threat that could very possibly destroy mankind, as we know it. The depletion of the layer of O3, or Ozone, as it is commonly known, is a huge problem facing our planet today. Normal oxygen, O2, is the type of oxygen in the air we breathe, and is very common. Ozone, on the other hand, is so rare that it accounts for only about three in every ten million-air molecules. Ozone, unlike normal oxygen, is very think, with blue color a strong odor. The concentration of Ozone that lies from about 15 to 30 km about the earth’s surface, in the stratosph
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