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Air Pollution
Air pollution is accused by many different things in the world. Air pollution is a mixture of solid particles and gases in the air. A few non- enviornmental causes are car emissions, chemicals from factories, dust,and pollen. Enviornmental air pollution causes are forest fires, volcanic eruptions, wind erosion, pollen dispersal, evaporation of organic compounds, and natural radioactivity. All of these materials are very harmful to the world, your health, and others as well. A harmful component in air pollution that causes your health to falter is carbon monoxide. This does cause you health to falter because it makes it harder for your blood to carry oxygen. It is also said that the first time humans ever were harmed by air pollution was when the first humans arrived and they discovered fire and put it in their caves. It is caused by you breathing too much air pollution. We are said to breath 20,000 literes of air a day. So you can imagine all of the pollution in just one liter not to mention 20,000 literes. Air pollution can also be indoors which can cause you to have air pollution inside your home and stay for a long period of time. This problem can also cause you to get cancer. Proof of that is my father, or Fatiah's dad. My father was healthy, he didn't work in mines, and he didn't smoke. Then we found out he had Stage four cancer in his bladder. The only cause of that was air pollution. There are also many other types of sickneses that can be caused by air pollution some long term and others short term one is mental retardation. The problem is, is that people in China burn coal and gas to keep warm in the winter, and for transportation. Another example, is Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the atomic bomb. They got bombed which is a cause to air pollution. We have to fix this problem because if we do not fix it a lot of people could get sick. So we have to fix this problem before it gets to its maximum.

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