The Challenges Of Our Natural Environment

The adoption of these new lifestyles will change the American way of thinking , working and creating

Environmentalists assert that every day actions should be less harmful to the environment should have such actions as recycling waste and driving less often . This shift in emphasis from technological to behavioral solutions became a key policy belief of the quality of advocacy coalitions . Other air pollution solutions are focused on technology , switching fuel , and dispersal . Switching from coal to oil and natural gas produces less pollution . However , burning these fuels still produces air

pollutants sulphur and natural gas , less relative gain in air quality come from additional switching from coal . A second mechanism used to combat air pollution is dispersal . Taller smokestacks sent emissions higher in the air to be dispersed over a wider area . Air -pollution industries can move and release their air pollution away from the main urban population areas . Dispersal of smoke , new technologies cleaner fuels , alternative manufacturing techniques , more efficient use of materials , and recycling waste products can be applied to stationary air pollution sources relatively easily (Voorspools 2007

3 . Water pollution

Water pollution , like other environmental concerns , has been the focus of widespread public interest for a lone time . Water pollution is the addition by humans of something to the water that alters its chemical composition , temperature , or microbial composition to such chemical composition to such an extent that harm occurs to resident organisms or to human . Water pollution causes are classified as either point source of pollution or non-point sources of pollution

3 .1 Point sources of pollution

These are sources associated with man-made discharges of pipelines and canals . Thy can also be called end of pipe ' sources of pollution They are identifiable discrete discharges from municipal and industrial waste water collection and treatment systems . They could...