The Environment and Pollution

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Industrialization was the reason of appearing "smog".

Smog is a compound word originated from words mist and fog.

Charles Dickens and Conan Doyle were the first to describe this atmosphere phenomenon.

In the middle of the twentieth century long lasting smog took more than seven hundred lives.

Last century scientists had to look for some ways to protect the Houses of Parliament.

There was an awful smell from the Houses of Parliament.

People who fell into the river Thames needed to be rushly hospitalized.

People having bathed in the Thames had terrific heart problems.

In the 60s and 70s the government forbade the heating of homes with open wood fires.

The aim of that restriction was to lessen the factory contamination.

The image of London in smog is actual today.

At present it is also impossible to catch fish in the Thames.

Air pollution problems are not so danderous in Western Europe as in the UK.

In the 20th century double-deckers contributed to the air pollution in London.

Mass Media now constantly warn of the danger of smoggy air.

Sportsmen are not recommended to leave their houses.

People with breath problems are advised not to take any physical exercise.

The text doesn't deal with nuclear contamination in the UK.

According to the facts given in the text Britain has overcome the environmental problems by the 21st century.

Considering the text we can conclude that people in different countries face the same nature problems.