Pollution Photo Essay
One of the biggest problems in our society is pollution. We have acknowledged it and have made moves to make it better but we still have a huge effect on our environment. Despite having a lot of ways to stop pollution, our day to day lifestyles have a significant impact on the world around us. One way pollution is happening around the world is carelessness, as I’ve been alive for 17 years I’ve noticed that when people litter and they justify it by saying that “One thing won’t hurt” and “everyone else does it” another one I’ve heard is that they just don’t care. I feel like something that would really help would be to push the agenda of living cleaner lifestyles. Little things would help like holding your trash and not throwing it out of the window while driving and also recycling things that can be recycled. Nowadays it seems like people acknowledged something and don’t care enough to make slight changes, pollution affects everything, and people don’t realize that we are just making things harder for ourselves in the long run. A major problem that we have with pollution is the pollution we don’t see such as chemicals in the environment and gasses. A significant part of the problem has to do with our planet’s carbon cycle, the planet already has natural levels of carbon but when we dig up carbon-rich coal, oil, and gas and burn it to fuel our vehicles and our 20 first century lifestyles we basically overload the system. When this happens the extra carbon just sits in the atmosphere as a greenhouse gas insulating the planet and changing the climate. This is just another huge problem that society needs to figure out before it’s too late, hopefully by the time my generation comes to power we will have this under control.
