1. Acid Rain, Air Pollution, and Nuclear Disaster in Europe
GPS SS6G9a. Explain the major concerns of Europeans regarding the issues such as acid rain in Germany, the air pollution in the United Kingdom, and the nuclear disaster in Chernobyl, Ukraine.

2. Eats holes in statues & buildings
Acid Rain in Germany
CAUSES
EFFECTS
Eats holes in statues & buildings
smoke from factories &
power plants
Car and bus exhaust
damages soil and trees
pollutes rivers
kills wildlife

4. Germany’s Acid Rain Solutions
Factories can use water power instead of coal
Laws reduce car & factory emissions
Factories clean smoke that leaves smokestacks
New energy sources – wind and solar power

5. Air Pollution in UK
SMOG = air pollution caused by sunlight + car & factory exhausts
Great Smog 1952: lasted 4 days
Increased crime
Slowed transportation
1000s died

6. Causes and Effects Burning coal Car/ diesel exhaust Asthma Pneumonia
Blackens buildings
Threatens wildlife

7. UK Air Pollution Solutions
Smokeless zones (no smoky fuels)
Cleaner coal
Increased use of electricity & natural gas
Laws to make cars produce cleaner exhaust
People drive less

8. Chernobyl Disaster

9. Nuclear Disaster Chernobyl, Ukraine
1986
Nuclear power station exploded

10. Reactor was buried in concrete.
It still is not safe.
28 emergency workers died within months
Cancer rates have increased.

11. Notice!
Because of wind currents, a mistake in one country can affect other countries!
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