(855) 4-ESSAYS

Type a new keyword(s) and press Enter to search

Air Pollution in China and India

            
             Global warming has been a widespread issue for many years now, and thanks to Al Gore, lots of people now know about it. Al Gore describes our climate change in his essay entitled We Cant Wish Away Climate Change as man-made pollutants getting trapped inside our atmosphere, and heating up the earth. He talks about how the pollutants have been increasing rapidly with the growth in the burning of coal, oil, natural gas and forests, and temperatures have increased over the same period. The weather will soon change, as he says that hurricanes are predicted to grow stronger and more destructive, droughts are predicted to go on longer than usually, and flooding will increase as well. According to the EPA, humans are largely responsible for any climate change that we will experience or have experienced in the past. The greenhouse gases that are causing our atmosphere to heat up have come from humans burning fossil fuels for energy.
             A contributor to global warming is air pollution. As mentioned before, most of the pollutants in the air are man-made. Energy consumption, road transport, agriculture and the production of goods are the main sources of air pollution (BMUB). While many countries can produce tons of air pollution, there are three main countries that have largely contributed to the rising atmospheric temperature: China, India, and the United States. This paper will focus on China and India.
             China and India are the two largest countries in the entire world as far as population goes. Because of this, air pollution in those countries is a huge issue. The smog that is all over Asia is composed of nitrogen oxides, methane, and other compounds that cause the ozone layer to decrease. These particles settle into the lungs of the people that live there and cause lung cancer and many other illnesses. This disease in particular causes over 800 thousand deaths worldwide. Its causing India to spend from $350 to 400 million on treatment of these diseases, but still over 40 thousand Indians die early from these toxic fumes.


Essays Related to Air Pollution in China and India

1. Air Pollution

Air Pollution Air Pollution is addition of harmful substances to the atmosphere resulting in damage to the environment, human health, and quality of life. One of many forms of pollution, air pollution occurs inside homes, schools, and offices; in cities; across continents; and even globally. ... In cities around the world, smog acids are eroding precious artifacts, including the Parthenon temple in Athens, Greece, and the Taj Mahal in Agra, India. ... The worst such accident occurred in 1984 in Bhopal, India, when methyl isocyanate released from an American-owned factory during a thermal in...

  • Word Count: 6167
  • Approx Pages: 25
  • Has Bibliography
  • Grade Level: Undergraduate

2. Position Paper India

India is committed to reducing pollution and harm on the environment. ... India needs is the ability to better inform its state government and civil society of the dangers pollution and all forms of environmental degradation has on its communities and terrain. ... According to the article China and India: Converging or Diverging? ... However, the Indian agrofood system is extremely inefficient, e.g. food production is only two-thirds of that of China, although India has more arable land. ... Air pollution with specific reference to vehicular pollution has become a major problem in India t...

  • Word Count: 2467
  • Approx Pages: 10
  • Grade Level: Undergraduate

3. Position paper India

India is committed to reducing pollution and harm on the environment. ... India needs is the ability to better inform its state government and civil society of the dangers pollution and all forms of environmental degradation has on its communities and terrain. ... According to the article China and India: Converging or Diverging? ... However, the Indian agrofood system is extremely inefficient, e.g. food production is only two-thirds of that of China, although India has more arable land. ... Air pollution with specific reference to vehicular pollution has become a major problem in India t...

  • Word Count: 2379
  • Approx Pages: 10
  • Grade Level: Undergraduate

4. The Issue of Overpopulation in China

Applies it to China, it is the same. ... Environmental issues like pollution and global warming are both the effect that arose from the world's population, therefore there are no debates of the above topics when the overpopulation of the world is settled (Connor, 2011). ... The amount of air pollution kills almost three million more (Hinrichsen, 2000; Robey, 2000). ... As the population increases, so does the pollution on the coastlines and the oceans (Hinrichsen, 2000; Robey, 2000). Tides of pollution are rising in the seas (Hinrichsen, 2000; Robey, 2000). ...

  • Word Count: 2993
  • Approx Pages: 12
  • Has Bibliography
  • Grade Level: Undergraduate

5. Analysis Essay - Water Pollution

Some industries burn fossil fuels which emits sulfur dioxide into the air, the sulfur dioxide reacts with the water which then creates sulfuric acid and falls as precipitation called acid rain. ... Also in India most of the major cities like Delhi discharges its waste water into their drinking water. ... China's surface is forty percent polluted and three-hundred twenty million people do not have access to clean drinking water. ... (NRDC) For some countries like the US, Canada and some of Europe is for the better but others like China and India not so much. ... Although in China there i...

  • Word Count: 1671
  • Approx Pages: 7
  • Has Bibliography

6. GNP Growth Rates

Between the years of 1980-1985, GNP per capita grew by about 3.2 percent a year in India and in China by an remarkable 8.3 percent a year. Rapid growth in China and India explains why more than half of the world's population lives in economies growing faster than 2 percent a year. ... Another long term threat to growth is the deterioration in the environment, especially air pollution, soil erosion, and the steady fall of the water table specifically in the north. China continues to lose farmable land because of erosion and various economic development. ... Also, India is a major ...

  • Word Count: 648
  • Approx Pages: 3
  • Grade Level: Undergraduate

7. Coal Mining and the Environment

Thus it is clear that China would have the biggest impact on the environment due to its large scale coal production. ... In the past, attention was paid to air pollution caused by emissions in the coal burning process however now more research is done to environmental degradation in terms of land pollution due to improper waste management. ... Runsheng LV and Yanyong Bo Ll in their paper examining groundwater pollution due to mining in china have stated that the ground water reaches only 65% of the water quality and this situation is fairly grim (Bo LI, pp 3) china there are about 4.5 billion ...

  • Word Count: 909
  • Approx Pages: 4
  • Grade Level: Undergraduate

8. Overpopulation

To breathe clean air and avoid pesticide poisoning? ... Five developing countries today are responsible for more than 50 percent of the world's increase in population: India, China, Indonesia, Pakistan, and Nigeria. China has the most with 1,270,000,000. Part of the problem in China is that according to Chinese beliefs, large families are a key part of the traditional Chinese culture. ... Top 10 Countries China 1,270,000,000 India 1,030,000,000 United States 281,421,906 Indonesia 224,784,210 Brazil 172,860,370 Russia 146,001,176 Pakistan 141,553,775 Bangladesh 129,194,224...

  • Word Count: 1921
  • Approx Pages: 8
  • Has Bibliography
  • Grade Level: High School

9. The Problem of Acid Rain

Acid rain is formed by pollution, which is released into the air. Electric utility plants and other sources produce this type of pollution. ... Damage from acid rain has been widespread in eastern North America throughout Europe, Japan, China, and Southeast Asia (Hart, John B.A., 1997). ... Two examples of acid pollution deterioration are the Parthenon in Athens, Greece, and the Taj Mahal in Agra, India. There are many things we can do to reduce the problems of acid pollution. ...

  • Word Count: 1786
  • Approx Pages: 7
  • Grade Level: High School

Got a writing question? Ask our professional writer!
Submit My Question