Pollution: A Global Responsibi

we are "...destroying the purity and sanctity of..." our environment.
             In the opinion of many people, we are all responsible for the pollution that we cause and for preventing it. Many countries have a strict policy that enforce industry and residential areas to ensure that their own area is within the safety standards for a human environment. However, other countries are unable to enforce such a law and the inhabitants of that country are suffering. But these corporations also argue that they should only be responsible to the pollution that they cause, and that if there is not sub-stantial evidence that they have caused the pollution, they should not be enforced to clear up, or prevent it.
             One of the major pollution problems that exist in the world today is Global Warming. Global Warming has occurred because atmospheric temperatures are increasing causing the polar ice caps to melt and sea level rises, but how is global warming actually caused?
             Global Warming is caused by an increase in the amount of Carbon Dioxide and other gases, including Methane, Nitrous Oxide and Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), in the atmosphere. It has been for over a century that Carbon Dioxide helps stop the sun's infrared radiation from escaping into space and therefore functions to maintain the earths relatively warm temperature. Increasing levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere over the last century will lead to elevated global temperatures, which could result in coastal flooding and major climatic changes, that will have serious im-plications for agricultural productivity as well as causing greater frequency of flooding and other natural phenomenon seen recently.
             Global warming is a process that ignores national boundaries so it is difficult to determine who is responsible for this rise in temperatures. We should presume that be-cause global warming is caused by the release of greenhouse gases, then everyone is re-sponsible, in some way, fo...

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