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          Buildings such as steel mills, nuclear plants, coal manufacturing mills and the like contribute to global warming because they produce dangerous chemicals such as carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide and even nuclear waste that damage our earth, water and air. In fact, carbon dioxide (CO2) is the largest known cause of air pollution and global warming in Georgia and Atlanta has large amounts of it.

           Air pollution is the presence of harmful gases, liquids, or solids in the atmosphere. Air pollution, known as smoke pollution for many years, resulted from coal combustion which was aided mainly by coal mining mills. Today there are more gas emitting companies like these all over Georgia and they emit even more dangerous gases than their predecessors.

           Factory pollution includes carbon monoxide, which is mainly produced in combustion processes. Nitrogen oxides combine with hydrocarbon gases to produce what is known as ‘smog’ which is released in large quantities into the air every hour and every day the factories are in operation. Factory pollution also includes chlorofluorocarbons, which have been shown to destroy the ozone layer. The destruction of our ozone layer causes global warming to occur at a much stronger, faster and more dangerous rate.  

          Factory related pollution is the number one source of pollution in the United States. Factory pollution accounts for more than half the volume of all water pollution. More than 365,000 manufacturing factories consume vast quantities of fresh water to carry away waste of several different types.

           Many things we build today are helpful to us in our domestic surroundings but end up hurting the atmosphere that we live in. By destroying the outer layer of our earth, CO₂ endangers the lives of people living today and tomorrow unless the problem is changed. If factories such as nuclear plants, carbon emitting coal manufacturing companies and the like were to reduce or stop the large amounts of CO₂ they emit every day on our earth then the issue of air pollution and global warming would reduce in great numbers.

           Is it fair to the children of the future to have to suffer the consequences that pollution causes? Why not take care of the problem now? We owe it to our environmental community and children of the future to conserve the earth and protect it from extinction. A lot of our animals and plants are forced to die off because they cannot survive in their familiar environment due to the production of nuclear and coal factories on their environment.

           Although air quality has improved in many areas of Georgia over the past 15 years, air pollution still poses a health risk for millions of Americans living in Atlanta. Adopting stricter national air quality standards for particulate matter and ozone would help clear the air by giving Georgia a stronger tool to force polluting companies to clean up.

            The solution of global warming and air pollution is not that simple but it’s not impossible. Factory and business owners have the ability to prevent air pollution. To reduce air pollution, the carbon dioxide emission (CO2) has to become less. That means that there should be very strict rules given to these companies on how they produce these chemicals and gases as well as how they get rid of them.

           Hopefully readers will understand the huge devastations factories have already caused in Atlanta and they will be able to figure out that factories that emit a lot of carbons, gases, and fumes from their factories are huge contributors to global warming and that they have to be reduced or stopped all together in order to conserve our beautiful city, air and environment.