Environmental Problems

Forces that can impact everyone’s life can be made by actions that we perform every day of our lives, actions which might not even emit a second thought during the action.  Pesticides, acid rain, water pollution, and global warming bring danger to present and future life on Earth.  Classified by the area where each occurs, the time it takes, the damage that can occur, and the energy it takes to fix it, environmental issues can impact and change the tide of history.

            Area, regarding environmental problems, plays a role in determining the effects of an environmental problem.  Pesticides hurt the area of usage, animal life, and sometimes food.  Acid rain concerns mainly bigger cities; more polluted zones, but will increase due to China and India increasingly using fuel.  Water pollution can injure a city, but the level of catastrophe depends on the pollution or toxicity level infused into the water.  Finally, global warming seems to have the biggest branch of the four, having the potential to cover the entire planet.  However, it takes from several months to even years for threats to our environment to actually take place.

            Time also plays a role in the threatening of our planet.  Pesticides cause damage right away, once used damage occurs.  Acid rain eats away at materials and doesn’t seem to cause damage for at least three or four years depending on the acid levels.  Water pollution can swiftly take effect but usually happens over time, as runoff of pollutants trickle into our groundwater supply.  Global warming, by far, happens over the longest period of time.  Because global warming happens over such long periods of time, it still causes debate but mainly about whether global warming was caused by man or nature.

            The biggest element concerning the environment, damage, can determine whether families have to move to a different town, the distribution of food, and even death.  Pesticides caused a bit of damage earlier in time until we stopped using them in fields.  At the time, pesticide use would’ve helped because the following year bugs annihilated crops, which meant a decrease in food, while a few other countries had no food and about two million humans died. If pesticides had been used, that death rate could have dropped a lot (the butterfly effect).  Acid rain can cause damage; however, it hasn’t been recorded excessively because the time it takes to act on materials.  Water pollution can poison swiftly or not over time and can cause damage depending on where it occurs.  Fourthly, global warming has the potential to severely hurt man-kind but it will probably take years longer before we view it as a major threat.

            We have to have solutions as quickly as possible, to consider our short term and long term safety and health.  Pesticides used to cause a lot of damage but, due to modern technology, a lot of the problems made from them have been remedied.  Acid rain, however, could end up a bigger fish to fry, as it seems to grow due to factory, household, and automobile emissions.  Water pollution can appear as a medium between the two, as solutions can take time to fix it and it also takes a form of filtering equipment to clean the water.  Ultimately, global warming may take the most time to fix, as every country would have to change carbon dioxide emissions.

            Environmental issues have to have consideration now, because they will cause damage.  Pesticides, acid rain, water pollution, and global warming bring danger to present and future life on Earth.  Classified by the area where each occurs, the time it takes, the damage that can occur, and the energy it takes to fix it, environmental issues can impact and change the tide of our future.  If we come together through studies, research, planning, and action, we can keep Earth the same, clean planet it has been for generations of humans in its life.