Air Pollution

Air Pollution

“The atmosphere is composed of 78.1 percent nitrogen, 20.9 percent oxygen, and a number of other gases such as argon, carbon dioxide, methane, and water vapor that total about 1 percent” (Enger Smith 355). Actually, besides the gases witch we need for our live, air pollutant also include in the 1 percent. Air pollution is a major problem facing our environmental today. This dilemma can harm every organism on this plant. In every minute, air pollutants are producing and polluting our environmental, because human actions are the major cause of the air pollution. Some air pollutants is not only polluting our environment, but also affecting our health. The World Health Organization states that 2.4 million people die each year from causes directly attributable to air pollution. In US of America, there over 4.1 thousand people die, because of outdoor air pollution. So we need pay attention on air pollution to solving this problem and reduce the air pollutant producing. My goal in this paper is to understand what air pollutant influence our environment and find out the way to reducing air pollution.

Aiming to achieve this goal, I have organized my paper into four sections. In the first section, I describe categories of air pollutants: the region where they were produced; how they affect the environment and people’s health. Then I will use second section to show the most terrible cases when air pollution caused people death. In third section, I discuss the way to resolving the air pollution and what we need to do to protect our environment. Then I will talk about the US Environmental Protection Agency.

Air pollutant can be separated into two categories: primary air pollutants and secondary air pollutants. Primary is known as the five major types of substances are released directly into the atmosphere by unmodified forms in sufficient quantities. They are carbon monoxide, volatile organic compounds,