how does the country of great britain cause pollution?
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The country itself doesn't, the people who live here do.
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They are too busy giving taxpayers money away to other countries!! When Gordon Brown made his speech about making poverty history,the UK was not included.Poverty,along with just about anything else in this country,does not exist in Gordon Browns eyes! Sadly, it does.
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Pollution is the release of chemicals, physical, biological or radioactive contaminants to the environment. The major forms of pollution include:\n\nair pollution, the release of chemicals and particulates into the atmosphere. Common examples include carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), and nitrogen oxides produced by industry and motor vehicles. Ozone and smog are created as nitrogen oxides and hydrocarbons react to sunlight. \nwater pollution via surface runoff and leaching to groundwater. \nradioactive contamination, added in the wake of 20th-century discoveries in atomic physics. (See alpha emitters and actinides in the environment.) \nnoise pollution, which encompasses roadway noise, aircraft noise, industrial noise as well as high-intensity sonar. \nlight pollution, includes light trespass, over-illumination and astronomical interference. \nvisual pollution, which can refer to the presence of overhead power lines, motorway billboards, scarred landforms (as from strip mining), open storage of junk or municipal solid waste.
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Fossil fuel power plants can emit many harmful pollutants, ranging from Nitrogen Oxides and particulates to heavy metals & mercury.\n\nThe radiation from the sun's nuclear fusion is what gives us solar energy, but it can also cause skin cancer.\n\nUse of solar energy generally requires using materials that have caused pollution as a byprodouct of their manufacture.
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your abosolutly right, china and inda hve been industrial powers for only the past 10 years so they can't be blamed for the pollution ,capitalsim is the root of all evil,
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Well of course if you spill them, it's kind of nasty. Think of engine oil scattered in your garage. It doesn't smell good - can cause respiratory problems. It can contaminate your drinking water. It can kill fish and other marine organisms.\n\nIf you burn them, like you use them to generate electricity. They will produce carbon dioxide which can contribute to global warming. This carbon dioxide gas functions like a glass .. (Have you ever seen a greenhouse?) wherein heat is trapped and cannot get out. This is what we call " greenhouse effect". And since heat is trapped, earth becomes warmer. This could lead to melting of icebergs and polar caps and some islands to submerge.\n\nLooking for a tutor? Email me at myfunnyprof@yahoo.com\n\nI'm a teaching assistant here in Reno, NV.
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Here are some sites that may help you:\nhttp://dir.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/Environment_and_Nature/Pollution/\nhttp://www.webdirectory.com/Pollution/\nhttp://www.answers.com/topic/pollution\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollution
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The United Kingdom contains some of the world's leading universities, including the University of Cambridge, the University of Oxford and the University of London (which incorporates, amongst others, King's College London, Imperial College London, The London School of Economics and University College London). It has produced many great scholars, scientists and engineers including Sir Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Adam Smith, James Clark Maxwell, Lord Kelvin, and Isambard Kingdom Brunel; the nation is credited with many inventions including the locomotive, vaccination, television, the railway, and both the internal combustion and the jet engine.\n\nIn 2006, it was reported that the UK was the most productive source of research after the United States; with the UK producing, for instance, 9% of the world's scientific research papers with a 12% share of citations [3].\n\nIn the UK, there are two types of schools, Public Schools and State Schools. Public schools are typically funded by the individual whom attends it, making it a more popular choice among the more wealthy citizens. State schools, however, are funded by the government through Tax.
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TURNING INTO a nanny state?!  Unfortunately GB turned into a nanny state in the '50s, when they gave away the farm to the socialists among them.  Now there are too many people there who think H.M. Government should send someone round to wipe their butts every day...Pathetic.
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The USA creates more energy than any other country in the world.  When energy is created, especially by burning fossil fuels like coal and oil, chemical fumes are released into the air.  These chemicals, especially sulfuric dioxide and nitrogen oxides, combine with water vapor in clouds, and when it rains, the resulting acid is carried back to earth in the raindrops.
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I don't think British people practice poor hygiene as a general rule, but in the U.S. we do have the advantage of fluoride added to the water supply, which probably makes a large difference.
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Exactly. A far bigger emphasis should be put on environment protection than it is getting now. Everybody and every country is only looking at their own interests while the amazing rainforests are being cut and the waters full of oil.. \nI'm from east Europe, air pollution is a big problem here too, still only few people think and talk about these. I hope they won't realise the importance of this when it will be already irreversible.
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United Kingdom (full name is 'The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland' and includes England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales).
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not really cuz almost everything british people do, they beet the americans. one of the studies concluded that british people are more healthy and stuff than americans and researchers don't now why?
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yes get rid of pollution
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Ok, first off Great Britain and United Kingdom are interchangeable, as far as I know there is little difference, except maybe that Great Britain is not inclusive of Northern Ireland whereas Great Britain is. \n\nEngland is no more of a country than Wales or Scotland, collectively they make up the nation of Great Britain. Like counties they have certain governing bodies that deal only with themselves but all are beholden to British law and parliament. The confusion mostly comes from the fact that in their history they were once seperate countries, much like Britain and Ireland are seperate countries today (with the exception of Northern Ireland) but today they are all considered of the same country.
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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!!!