Which is easier cleaning up pollution or preventing it?

Which is easier cleaning up pollution or preventing it?

8 Responses to “Which is easier cleaning up pollution or preventing it?”

  • Nikki:

    preventing. Try doing both though.

    With so many concerns about healthy air and water, there are many concerns as well about how to prevent pollution in our environment. Pollution in the air is depleting the ozone layer while pollution in water is causing health concerns. The problem is that not enough people care about the safety of our air and water, and as long as it doesn’t directly affect them, they have no concerns. On the other hand, learning how to prevent pollution will help the preserve not only our natural resources but the health of its residents as well.

    Learning how to prevent pollution begins with making sure that we do the things that are healthy for our environment. Things such as the use of green energy are places to start. Fossil fuels are the worst pollutants in the air, and if we can get rid of those, we are on our way to preserving the ozone layer, and thus protecting our skin from the sun’s harmful rays.

    Scientists have been telling us for many years about the harmful affects of pollution on the sun’s ozone layer, but many people do not believe in its existence and think it is just something they are telling us to force us to conserve energy and take a stand against water pollution. Everyone in the world needs to learn how to prevent pollution in order for our earth and its people to survive. We may not be able to undo the damage that has been to our ozone layer, but if we all do our part, we can prevent any further damage. Learning how to prevent pollution has to be a joint effort, and all of our brothers and sisters in the world have to participate for it to work. The sooner we begin working together, the sooner the earth will be a safer place to live.

  • geoweeg:

    I’m a geologist and I work as an environmental consultant. In short terms, I’m the guy that you call to come and clean up the pollution.

    From the things that we have to do to clean up some truly foul pollutants I would say that it has to be easier to prevent it.

  • Bewildered:

    My Wife and I have cleaned up two miles of blue highway in the last week or so.It was about 14 bags of trash.I would say prevention would work for me.The plastic bottles and shopping bags from Various stores,foam cups,chip bags.All that stuff does not compost at the side of the road like paper products do .It just piles up.How ever it helps to get out there and just do it.

  • campbelp2002:

    It depends. Some pollution is harder to prevent than clean, some is harder to clean than prevent. Easiest of all is to just live with the pollution, which is why we don’t always clean and/or prevent it.

  • Laksa:

    preventing is much much easier.just for easy ref like cutting down trees.if we prevent from cutting it down, it cost us zero, but to cultivated it take 100 or even 1000 years to get the same equal tree size again.can you imagine that

  • Brad:

    Prevent. LETS RECYCLE!

  • willywonkakindaguy:

    it is always easier to prevent pollution then clean it. both take money and time but prevention is the long term solution to this problem

  • olivebird111:

    prevent, cleaning up takes money, time, people, and it kills alot of things before you actually clean it up.

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