Environment Quality Research and Development About Air Pollution
A hundred years ago, a book about air pollution would have attracted very few readers. Those that did read it would have felt that it was just about as important as a book about air traffic control, abortion, or pill. Today when the word pollution is mentioned, almost everyone from the child in kindergarten to the octogenarian appreciates that we are talking about a problem affecting all society. Now, pollution has become the sixth or seventh most serious problem in the world. People have started to become concerned about the effects of pollution.
What is Air Pollution?
Air pollution has been defined in many different ways. It means different things to different people. For example, to an airplane pilot, it means poorer visibility and more danger. To someone else, it could mean painful irritation to the eyes. In one sense, air pollution is the contamination of the atmosphere by gaseous, liquid, or solid wastes or......
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