Which is the greatest threat?

Air Pollution
First thing you see when you Google Air Pollution is the corresponding Wikipedia page, where the first sentence states the death and destruction which it brings to people and ecosystems.
So obviously air pollution is bad, and the less pollution there is the better, BUT

How much pollution is too much? 

Which countries/cities suffer worst from it? 

What is truly the effect of air pollution on our climate? 

All these are questions which I will attempt to answer over the following weeks.

Air Pollution can cause difficulties breathing and even lasting lung problems.

A lot of effort has been made to decrease air pollution in most developed countries around the world. Policies such as the Kyoto Protocol bound most European countries into decreasing their emissions by at least 5% between 2008 and 2012 based on a 1990 baseline.

Oil Pollution impacts on wildlife

Water pollution on the other hand, in my opinion has drawn less global attention. As its immediate impacts are mainly upon wildlife and not humans, it is safe to assume that people don't worry about it as much, and will therefore invest a lot less money and time in trying to prevent it or cleaning it up. However, they don't always consider that 71% of the earths surface is covered with the worlds oceans and 97% of the earths water. As I will explain in further blogs this volume of water could be crucial to the sustainability of the Earth and humans.

This seal is not adapted to deal with plastic in its habitat.

I was born and raised in Greece, so to hear that while 18 year old Boyan Slat, was scuba diving in Greece a few years ago he was astounded to find more plastic bags than fish, is a bit of a blow. He tells us that his scuba diving partner, turned to him and said "Boyan, I cant believe how many jellyfish there are here, I must have seen thousands!!" ... there were no jellyfish according to Boyan.

Below I've found a Ted talk by Fabien Cousteau, grandson of Jacques Cousteau discussing the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and why water pollution can be detrimental to wildlife. I love how passionate he is!

So what do you think is a greater issue? Water or air pollution? Tell me what you think in the poll on the top right.

See you next week :)