In the beginning of the 1700’s a new revolution began. It was called the Industrial Revolution. Humans had dawned on the very start of a New World. During this revolution we went from using horse and carriage to jets and space shuttles. Technology had reached a new high. And yet, the most important creation of all may soon be able to do all human jobs: computers. However, they can’t fix the problems that we’ve created. That’s up to us.

The U.S. census shows that in 1993, 5,772 babies were born and 3,246 people died. That’s almost a 2:1 ratio…almost. So what’s going on? More people are being produced than there are dying. According to the “Overpopulation of Ear

With population growth, another thing grows and that’s pollution. The more people there are then the more use of cars and the more carbon dioxide there is being exhaled into the air and the more factories there are being built to give all these people jobs and…well, you get the point. Our little planet can only take so much. But what happens when all humans do is take and take from the environment and never gives anything back? Whatever we do to the planet is going to effect us.

Nothing consumes as much raw material as an automobile. The United States consists of only one fifth of the world’s population; however, we use 25 percent of the world’s fuel. Japan doesn’t use even half of what the U.S. uses… not a third…not a fourth… but one eleventh.

In the housing developments being built, there are several problems arising. A few of the problems include: the run-off from all the pesticides being used on lawns has no where to go (people that live in suburban areas use three to six times more pesticides that farmers use one their land), the trees being cut down are not being replaced, the wildlife that once lived there now does not have any habitat to live in. Animals that were once plentiful are now rarely seen.

Water pollution is one of our biggest problems in every city near a body of water. Most large cities that are located near a river tend to dump waste into the river. This becomes a hazardous problem for the people who live a hundred miles away and that river is their drinking water. Some cities in Latin America have such a large problem with water pollution that they have to depend on purified bottled water. However, the people that can’t afford the bottled water become very ill with diseases such as cholera or dysentery and can not afford hospitalization.

Soil pollution may not sound serious, but it is. When the soil gets polluted, it can not be easily cleaned. The chemicals we are putting in to our surrounding ground do not decompose easily. The plants growing in the soil then inherit the chemicals and are passed on to the animals that eat them and could eventually land on our dinner table.

So then why don’t we start realizing what we are doing to the air we breath? Well, in 1970 the Clean Air Act was passed. Ever since then, pollution ha

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