Environmental Pollution

Essay by matojeUniversity, Master'sA+, July 2004

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There are not many things in life that catch my attention as my fascination with physical science and the evolution of this planet. In the spring of 2001, I was given a once in a lifetime opportunity to travel and explore oceanography (study of the ocean) and ecology (study of the environment in which things life) with Dr. Henry Browning, a distinguished professor from the University of North Carolina. This opportunity was the most important experience that I have had within the past three years. I became so involved in research and data collection that I discovered I was more focused and interested in the affects of environmental pollution. During my research on environmental pollution, I discovered several points of interest that I will discuss in this paper. These First I need to define pollution. According to Social Problems by author James Henslin, "Pollution is the accumulation in the air, water, and land of substances harmful to living things."

(Henslin, pg 471) In this paper, I wish to identify some environmental pollution problems that face society today.

When we think of pollution, we commonly think about automobiles and their exhaust emission, dirty water standing stagnate in a swamp or lake, or even garbage laying on the side of streets and highways. This is pollution on a small scale. Pollution on a large scale could be more drastic and alter the natural events of nature. There's a bigger picture that I want to paint for you more so on the Global scale and that is of our environment.

I discovered our environment is a major aspect of our life today. "Many of us don't take our Earth's resources seriously and think that as long as pollution doesn't hurt us, we can go ahead and do as we wish," says J. Davis,