Acid Rain
Acid rain is a significant problem in our world today. It causes fish and plants to die in our waters as well causing harm to our own race because we eat these fish, drink this water and consume these plants. It is a problem that we must all face together and attempt to solve. However, acid rain on it's own is not the biggest problem. It causes many other problems such as aluminum poisoning. (Gay, Water Pollution) Acid rain can be defined as all the rain, snow, mist that falls from the sky in the form of precipitation onto our planet that contains an unnatural acidic content. It is not to be confused with uncontaminated rain that falls, for that rain is naturally slightly acidic. Acid rain is caused by today's industry. ( Compton Encyopedia) When products are manufactured, many chemicals are used to create it. Due to the difficulty and cost of properly disposing of these products they are often emitted into the atmosphere with little or no treatment. The term, acid rain, was first considered to be important about 20 years ago when scientists in Sweden and Norway first believed that acidic rain might be causing great ecological damage to the planet. ( Parfit, National Geographic) The problem was that by the time
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Approximate Word count = 1882
Approximate Pages = 8 (250 words per page double spaced)
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