How our transportation pollutes our environment

We all rely on our transportation. Whether it's school, work, or any other travel necessary, we travel through some form of vehicle. It is well known that cars, trains, and planes, emit many pollutants that effect our environment in bad ways by slowly melting our o-zone. Out of all the pollutants that are destroying our o-zone, motor vehicles are responsible for 72% of nitrous oxides and 52% of reactive hydrocarbons, which create smog. There is no way to avoid this, however, there are ways to slow this process.

Hybrid cars are an effective tool to help decrease car emissions. They are cars that are purely electric up to a certain speed. So while traveling through town at a reasonably slow pace, your car wouldn't be emitting CO2 at all. Another effective way to slow pollution is public transport. Busses and trains help you slow pollution by carrying a large amount of people at one time, who might otherwise be driving a single car each. People should use public transport always before resorting to their own vehicle. The busses and trains will be driving anyway so you might as well jump on board.

Vehicle emissions account for 30,000 deaths per year. It's obvious that we need to improve our habits of relying on our transportation. It will save our environment, and also save lives.

Oily Oceans

Billions of people rely on the oceans daily, whether it be for food or travel, but we risk the well-being of our oceans for modern day conveniences that we overlook. Beaches are filled with trash, wastes are dumped, and fish are caught. There is one major recent event, though, that I'd like to focus everyone's attention on. The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has and will continue to destroy the ocean, and it happens to be close to home.


The explosion of a drilling rig on 4/20/10 caused a huge oil leak in the Gulf. The leak wasn't officially fixed until recently, 9/19/10. But, just because the oil is no longer leaking, doesn't mean that the oil has disappeared. There are many ways that this oil will effect the plant and animal life in the ocean. This can and will also effect us too. 


We as humans depend on the various forms of life that thrive in the ocean. Oil, however, can easily destroy these life forms. Fish, for example, provide us with food. When an area is destroyed by oil, every species experiences the consequences, including us. It is up to us, and only us, to clean our oceans. Without clean oceans, clean travel, and clean leisure time, what will we do with ourselves?