Global Pollution

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This paper explains that as the population of the Earth grows and as people continue to utilize an ever-increasing amount of the world's resources and energy, pollution is reaching levels that threaten lives and the traditional functioning of society. It looks at different forms of pollution such as noise, air and nutrient and discusses various initiatives to tackle them such as the Kyoto Protocol.

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"Global warming is deemed a direct consequence of air pollution-specifically greenhouse emissions-by many scientists but it still remains a subject of controversy. Generally, natural geological processes that last millions of years have provided mankind with energy sources such as coal and oil; when humans use these sources they release into the atmosphere, in seconds, gases that have taken the earth ages to confine. The general opinion among most scientists is that human activities are altering the global climate by increasing the amount of greenhouse gases in our atmosphere, but not everyone is convinced. A significant portion of the scientific community believes that the earth's natural processes will counter-act these fractional increases; still others argue that there is no empirical evidence supporting the hypothesis that global warming is occurring at all. "

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