pollution is everyone's social responsibility and affects everyone.Do you agree?Discuss.?

Question

who is responsible for pollution?
what the affects?
do you agree that everyone is responsible for pollution?Discuss.

Answer 1

What are you doing about it that helps?

Answer 2

Yes, pollution is everyone's responsibility and if everyone would take that responsibility, there would be no need for the government to do anything except educate people on the best ways to take that responsibility. The problem lies in greed and those who are unwilling to step up to the plate. instead, Thinking someone else, like the government, should take the initiative. Complacency is the biggest problem in this country. Its no wonder the rest of the world calls us the 'Nanny Country'.

Answer 3

“Apathy is the fear of sticking your toe in, for fear it will change your life,” she said. “Sometimes positive change does require a change in lifestyle.”

BOULDER, Colo. – When EPA-funded scientists at the University of Colorado studied fish in a pristine mountain stream known as Boulder Creek two years ago, they were shocked. Randomly netting 123 trout and other fish downstream from the city’s sewer plant, they found that 101 were female, 12 were male and 10 were strange “intersex” fish with male and female features.

It’s “the first thing that I’ve seen as a scientist that really scared me,” said then 59-year-old University of Colorado biologist John Woodling, speaking to the Denver Post in 2005.

They studied the fish and decided the main culprits were estrogens and other steroid hormones from birth-control pills and patches, excreted in urine into the city’s sewage system and then into the creek.

Woodling, University of Colorado physiology professor David Norris, and their EPA-study team were among the first scientists in the country to learn that a slurry of hormones, antibiotics, caffeine and steroids is coursing down the nation’s waterways, threatening fish and contaminating drinking water.

Since their findings, stories have been emerging everywhere. Scientists in western Washington found that synthetic estrogen – a common ingredient in oral contraceptives – drastically reduces the fertility of male rainbow trout.

What the Boulder scientists discovered, however, is that few people care. Or, if they’re worried, they’re in denial. “Nobody is getting passionately concerned about it,” Norris said. “It makes no sense to me at all that people aren’t more concerned.”

Answer 4

I agree absolutely. However, the solution needs to come from the government because it affects everyone and is caused by everyone. The expense should be shared by all. People and corporations must change also.

Answer 5

everyone contributes to pollution. but it's not our responsibilty to control it. carpooling isn't going to save any polar bears. the government needs to intervene and regulate gas emissions and air quality standards.