Your car is killing the Earth

1. Read and translate the text:

The car is an ecological disaster. It is now the world's number one polluter. From the beginning to the end of its life, one car produces an enormous quantity of pollution.

The production of one car results in 1,500 kilos of waste, and 75 million meters of polluted air.

During its life one car produces:

44.3 tonnes of carbon dioxide

4.8 kites of sulphur dioxide

46.8 kg of nitrogen dioxide

325 kg of carbon monoxide

36 kg of hydrocarbons

20 kg of various chemicals

from the tyres and brakes

(an average car over a period of ten years)

When you throw the car away:many dangerous metals (like cadmium) and other chemicals pollute the earth.

The building of roads, motorways and cur parks produces a large quantity of pollution. It is impossible to estimate how much.

The statistics above are for one car. There are now approximately 500 million earn on earth. So multiply all these numbers by 500 million. That gives, for example, more than 22 billion tons of CO, in ten years!

2. Answer the questions:

Is a car an ecological disaster?

Does a car produce an enormous quantity of pollution?

What happens when you throw the car away?

What produces a large quantity of pollution?

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