... promotes cancer, and it harms plants, animals, and the ecosystems in which they live. Some air pollutants return to earth in the form of acid rain and snow, which corrode statues and buildings, damage crops and forests, and make lakes and streams unsuitable for fish and other plant and animal ... States and 24 other nations agreed in the Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution Agreement to hold their production of nitrogen oxides, a key contributor to acid rain, to current levels. In the Montreal Protocol, adopted in 1987 and strengthened in 1990 and 1992, most nations agreed to stop or r...

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... grow, their sewage treatment facilities are quickly outgrown. Industry grows as well, spewing a vast array of contaminants into our water supply: lead, detergents, sulfuric acid, hydrofluoric acid, phenols, benzenes, ammonia and so on(Ehrlich and Ehrlich, 1970, p.203). As population and industry grow, so does the need for increased agricultural production ... generating plants, smelters, and industrial boilers that burn coal and oil. Nitrogen oxides also come from automobile exhaust. The acids return to earth in rain, snow, and fog, and are also deposited directly from the air and trees....

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... to benefit us. Sometimes we are even destroying species habitats without even realizing it. Every time we drive a motor vehicle sulfur and nitrogen oxide is released into the air creating acid rain, which destroys forests and contaminates lakes and streams making them uninhabitable because of its highly acidic precipitation. Global warming is also contributing to the factor of the extinction of species ... Butterflies are highly prized by collectors and many of these species can only be seen in museums and collector's cabinets. The law protects these butterflies but the destruction on t...

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... especially oil producing nations. "The expansion in clean renewable energy was caused by the combination of the beliefs that fossil fuel reserves would be exhausted and the growing idea about acid rain and global warming. "(Dictionary of American History pg 214) Although, I personally don't believe in global warming, advancement in clean renewable energy is imperative if we want to remain one of ... ...

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... flexibility as to where reductions are made. A similar system reduced the cost of meeting sulfur dioxide emission requirements in the United States. Sulfur dioxide, produced when coal is burned, causes acid rain. The treaty also provides for a system of "joint implementation," in which industrialized countries could receive credits to emit excess greenhouse gases if they sponso! red clean-energy projects in the ... ...

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... " (Keller, 262). "...the atmosphere will...need to be regulated as a global trust if the human community is to entertain any possibility of addressing the problems of global warming, ozone depletion, acid rain, and air pollution. In June 1988, the prime ministers of Norway and Canada proposed a "Law of the Air" treaty to protect the atmosphere from global warming and ozone depletion.[The ... ...

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... " (Keller, 262). "...the atmosphere will...need to be regulated as a global trust if the human community is to entertain any possibility of addressing the problems of global warming, ozone depletion, acid rain, and air pollution. In June 1988, the prime ministers of Norway and Canada proposed a "Law of the Air" treaty to protect the atmosphere from global warming and ozone depletion.[The ... ...

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