Air Pollution is the introduction of chemicals, particulate matter, or
biological materials that cause harm or discomfort to humans or other living
organisms, or damages the natural environment, into the atmosphere. Pollutions
in the air which cause its contamination include natural emissions like ash from
a volcanic eruption, but they mostly include the result of human activities such
as the carbon monoxide gas from a motor vehicles exhaust or sulphur dioxide
released from factories.
The present book not only enumerates these causes, their effects and control
mechanisms, but calls for a much more devoted and active effort to bring them to
fruition. It is hoped that this book,