France-3 Minister for Energy
Introduction
The pollution of the air is a major challenge that has a negative impact on everyone. There are various types of pollutants. Besides, the many ways to group pollutants, for instance, pollutants can be classified according to the distance in which their adverse effects are felt. Basing on this classification, there are pollutants that affect the global and local ecology. Some of the pollutants that affect local ecology include; emission of carbon (II) dioxide from cars, cigarette smoke. On the other hand some of the pollutants that have adverse effects on global ecology encompass; CFS (Chlorofluorocarbon) emissions, and carbon (IV) dioxide emission. The first type of pollutants is easy to manage. They
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It is a regional problem. For many years the European nations have tried to forge a treaty to decrease the transitional of impacts of acid pollution. The European nation’s game to reduce acid pollution began in 1979 with a conference in Geneva. This game ended in 1989 with aims to negotiate a multi-pollutant compact. Other events that were resolved during this game period were the dissolution of the soviet nation and emergence of democratic institutions in most eastern countries of Europe. There were also changes in the political environment of the United States, Britain, and Germany. France has adopted the use of nuclear, however, to increase effective of nuclear energy in France and to allow other European countries to consider using nuclear energy, the pros and challenges associated with nuclear energy must be addressed. Therefore, this paper explains the science of acid pollution and its adverse impacts one the environment. Finally, this paper concludes with stating the advantages of nuclear energy and persuasion of European countries to join France in the adoption of nuclear energy while taking consideration of the problems that may be associated with nuclear energy. Since the major cause of acid pollution is the emission of sulfur (IV) dioxide which needs …show more content…
The acidic precipitation encompasses any type of water consisting of fog, rain, snow, and sometimes tiny droplets of acidic particles. The effective way to report is pH. pH is the number that denotes the concentration of acid in a particular solution. Lower pH indicates the presence of more acid. The average range of acidity of the polluted environment is between 4 and 5. However, the pH precipitation that is near a coal plant power sometimes is lower than 1.5. In parts of Eastern Europe, have rain with pH values from 2 to 3, shows that the rain is very acidic and damaging. Acid precipitation negatively affects the living things (Henderson, and Susan 8). For instance, it destroys aquatic life, fish, and plants. Besides, it disrupts food sources and reproduction of living organisms and this leads to the destruction of the entire ecosystem. Acid rains have impacts on rocks that do not have adequate of amount of limestone. The presence of limestone in rocks helps in the neutralizing acid rain. Acid rain also destroys many infrastructures. Both coal and oil consist of sulfur. For instance, it occurs in iron (II) sulfide or pyrite, when these materials are burnt in the presence of oxygen, they release sulfur (IV) oxide. The sulfur (IV) oxide is toxic and quite reactive. In the atmosphere, the sulphur (IV) oxide is converted to sulphuric acid