• Question: What do you think about polution?

    Asked by amyh123 to Ed, Katie, Sam, Steve, Vera on 21 Jun 2011.
    • Photo: Katie Marriott

      Katie Marriott answered on 21 Jun 2011:

      I think it’s a problem we need to sort out!

    • Photo: Sam Tazzyman

      Sam Tazzyman answered on 21 Jun 2011:

      It certainly is a problem, and it can be very bad for people’s health. I read somewhere that in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 2010, pollution killed more people than the war in that country.

    • Photo: Steven Daly

      Steven Daly answered on 21 Jun 2011:

      It is a massive problem both for us and for other life on the planet. I think that we need a massive change in attitude on how we deal with pollution and we need to find cleaner ways to do pretty much everything. Sadly I don’t think things will change much whilst we live in a profit driven society, because everything is about making maximum money, and being clean and not polluting tends to be more expensive.

    • Photo: Vera Weisbecker

      Vera Weisbecker answered on 21 Jun 2011:

      I agree with the others, pollution is not real great. And I share Stevens pessimism – it is very hard to get people to change. The problem is that people think “If I don’t do it, someone else will”. That kind of thinking is a vicious cycle.

    • Photo: Ed Morrison

      Ed Morrison answered on 21 Jun 2011:

      Pollution is basically anything in the environment that we don’t want – this can be chemicals, smoke, noise, or ugly things. So it is in everyone’s interest to get rid of pollution as much as possible.

      The best ways to do this are to use as little as possible (travel as little as you can, buy as little as you can etc.), reuse wherever possible and recycle what you have to throw away. i think we should all become a lot less materialistic and stop buying things we don’t need.

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