Earth is a beautiful place to live, it's amazing how many things we take for granted. When you can't be bothered to get out of bed, you don't think about the experiences you can have in this world. You don't notice the true beauty it brings with it, instead you neglect it and all you see are the cold mornings and school. But what if one day you woke up and everything disappeared? Then you would have liked to appreciate it more. You never realize how much you take for granted until you lose it. Pollution is destroying our planet, through the air, water and land. When will you realize how much your planet does for you? Above all, air pollution is threatening all life on earth. Most of the air pollution we cause comes from burning fossil fuels, such as natural gas, coal, gasoline and oil. Factories contribute greatly to air pollution, burning fossil fuels which create carbon dioxide, the most dangerous greenhouse gas. For example, electricity generation industry and factories are estimated to contribute just over 50% of greenhouse gases. Another harmful gas created by the burning of fossil fuels is sulfur dioxide, when these gases meet water vapor in the atmosphere; produce sulfuric and nitric acid. Acid falls to the ground in rain, snow or fog. This rain can kill fish in rivers and lakes, burn leaves on trees and dissolve limestone in buildings. Factories also create ground-level ozone problems by releasing harmful gases into the air; Ozone is made up of three oxygen atoms, which is one more oxygen atom than is required for breathable oxygen, O2. Under certain conditions, some pairs of oxygen atoms split, and each atom joins with another pair to form ozone, O3. Although ozone can be useful for... middle of paper......highly toxic fertilizers and pesticides to eliminate insects, fungi and bacteria from crops. However, if they overuse these chemicals, the result is soil contamination and poisoning. A single American produces 2 kilograms of trash per day, and every household produces tons of trash every year. Did you know that every day we produce enough waste to fill 63,000 garbage trucks? What is surprising is that 80% of this waste can be recycled, but it is not. Things that can't be recycled end up in landfills. If these landfills are not properly treated or sealed before landfill, they cause severe land degradation and contamination of the groundwater beneath it. For example, soil pollution causes us to lose 24 billion tons of soil every year. One of the major human contributors to pollution is landfills and we are doing nothing about it.