Everyone knows cars pollute, SUVs pollute more and we are cleaning ourselves with pollution?
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It seems SUV owners are less environmentally conscientious than many other people. They are gas guzzlers and produce more Carbon Dioxide than other cars, so yes, they can pollute the air. People who drive Hummers are the most ridiculous.
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Well you can start by adjusting your lifestyle and joining an advocacy group in your area that promotes cleaner living. Everything we do causes pollution but there are newer consumer technologies now that will help you reduce your ecological footprint.
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We are hardwired to destroy this planet like termites destroy a piece of wood. Surely you have noticed that we are not the same as the other creatures who live here? We do not develope a sense of equalibrium with the environment around us, because we are no longer adapting to fit into our surroundings. Instead we change our surroundings to fit our wants and needs. I believe man is too easily distracted and caught up in his own drama to repair any of the damage he's done.
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Litter.\n\nI know it is probably not as dangerous to our health as Air Water or Noise but it is such a simple thing for people to take control of.\n\nDrives me nuts to see someone just toss there garbage out the car window or to the gutter when they are walking. \n\nPigs.
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From personal viewings, I would say it is very polluted especially in the United States (too many cars!) and other major countries.\n\nIn other countries where automobiles are not as plentiful, it is not as much a problem, but it continues to be on the rise.
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I'll disagree with everyone.\n\nIt is true cars, industry, cows, etc., take together represent quite a significant pollutant pool.  However, every small change we make helps some.  \n\nIf the millions of people who smoke all quit at once, we would see\n1) less pollution from the smoke;\n2) no pollution from the companies making cigarettes (they would go out of business); \n3) no pollution associated with transporting them to distributors and then to stores;\n4) no pollution associated with driving to/from store to get them;\n5) no pollution associated with driving to/from hospital for lung cancer treatment;\n6) no pollution associated with heating/cooling outside smoking areas;\n\nAs you can see, the ramifications could be significant.
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The most noticable would be CAR FUMES! Look there are as many cars as pets in the USA, I swear some of them just let too much pollution! You don't need a detail answer, all you need is imagination, just look at all the cars, factories, machines, trucks and every single one of those! They affect the climate dramatically, without even mentioning the military and nuclear weapons being produced there! \n\nUSA is in deep growing danger!!!
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Education! People have to learn more about pollution and what effects their actions (dumping, buying goods with a lot of packaging etc.) have on the environment. Only then people can act responsibly, reduce waste and recycle and reuse as much as possible.
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yes get rid of pollution
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1.As for the environment -I think people are finally waking up - more and more people are aware and concerned about the environment and realize it is up to us (mankind) to make the changes its not going to just SOLVE itself. -more and more people recycle these days and consume less waste than before but it is still not enough YET -but I believe it is going to get there - We have no choice in the matter but to try. I think recycling should be a WORLD ENFORCED LAW!! - if we are going to see any real improvement for the environment it would start there. And soon  I think cars will be mostly hybrid and there will be less need and someday no need for gasoline -that will change alot for the environment. I am very possitive that it is improving (slowly but surely) -the world has been negative for so long and now its starting to be more possitive - and people are not taking it for granted as much as they used to. \n\n2.As for society -People are starting to realize that life is not meant to be this agonizing, terrible ordeal full of pain and hardships- Life is suppossed to be Wonderful and can be - you have to make it that way - I think people have a stronger awareness of what life is for - to live it to the fullest - we all want the same things - happiness, love, security and freedom - I see the future of the world as being very promising - more and more people turning to spirituality in a broader understanding, more people meditate and have a stronger consiousness of the world around them and how our attitudes and actions reflect the worlds well being- more and more people have EVOLVED by opening there minds to the limitless possibilties this world has to offer inside and out and the power we as humans truely posess - if you think the world is being distroyed than you have a WEAK mind and are participating in destroying it just by thinking that and are following the narrow minded thinking of the masses that put the world in Jeopardy to begin with - man has STUPIDLY manifested this all negitive things to happen -it is time we manifest the world to HEAL and Replinish -I feel I am one of those people who have evolved - If you think it so be it- I beleive one day the world will attain WORLD PEACE- I may not live to see it but I hope My daughter does - if not I KNOW a descendant of mine will .\nI believe John Lennin was a Genius!!\nlisten to the words of the song IMAGINE\nI believe those words to that song will come true some day -I believe he was suppossed to write that song as a message to us of what the WORLD is intended to be!!! \nOPEN YOUR MINDS people dont dwell in the dark ages any longer -its just ignorant - try to use more than ten percent of your brain -the SAKE of the WORLD depends on it!!! -Think about it (think about it with more than 10% !!! ) God made us to be smarter than that it time we use it!!!
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Read Michael Crichton's State of Fear. From my various reading I have learned that the earth was warmer in 1300 A.D. long before cars and it was one of the most prosperous times in history. This was before the Black Plague, of course. More land was arable and human and animal populations were flourishing. It is really impossible to tell as the Earth is in the middle of a natural warming period right now. The tree huggers will never tell you about the glaciers in Iceland that are getting bigger and the parts of Antarctica where the ice sheet is getting thicker. I am a liberal, I am for nurturing the environment. I believe common sense dictates that vehicle emissions are bad for the earth in making our air more noxious, but to answer your specific question, nobody knows because there are too many factors.
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I love the irony! Seems to me that it's because we focus more on short term quality of our lives than long term sustainability of the planet's resources (ie self importance, arrogance). As education rich, supposed 'guardians' of the world, we shouldn't feel the need to say "we can pollute the way we do because other countries are worse." This strikes me as classic shirking of responsibility. It's like saying I'm good because I only murdered one person whereas someone else murdered five. \n\nUltimately, our awareness of the need to be the custodians of our planet will either kick in or we'll pollute ourselves out of existence. Will the planet really miss us?
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Because they want to b1tch about something.   Seriously, smoking outside isn't going to give anyone cancer any more than that car they drive.  It's getting completely out of hand.
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Actually, the Ozone is starting to recover.  There was an 8% increase compared to what is was 20 years ago.  Society needs to be encouraged to continue reducing emissions and recycling what they can.
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Our beautiful earth is being destroyed. Thousands and thousands of trees are being cut down in short amounts of time, and trees give us the oxygen we need to survive. People are polluting the earth by littering, dumping trash into rivers, lakes and oceans. Car exhaust and smoking causes smog and makes the oxygen layer in our atmosphere thinner. If we don’t take action, our earth will end up like one big junkyard.
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Are you trying to get Yahoo users to do your homework? :)\n\nWell, the benefits of the car outweigh the harms. They're practical, beneficial and are essential for modern city life. On the down side, car emissions are the one of the greatest contibutors to the greenhouse effect, but cars are so immersed into our culture that it is impossible to get rid of them. we can only eliminate the waste they produce, not the car itself.
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Human beings are the only species that think that they can 'improve' the environment they live in via 'progress' and 'invention' and 'technology'.\nI suppose this mistaken belief springs from the fact that we believe we are somehow 'superior' and it is our 'responsibility' to re-make the earth according to our stupid specifications.\nUntil we change and begin to understand that the real challenge is to live as much as possible 'in accordance' with nature and in harmony with the environment, we will keep on destroying the world we live in.Then, a time will certainly come when we wont have anyplace to live in anymore and that will be the end of us.