I believe that the Government has the biggest responsability for pollution over big industries and inviduals but... Why?
Because the government is the one in charge of spreading and creating anti pollution/contamination laws, some governments do this some don't and some barely do it, and this is why many countries and cities have big contamination issues, the government can do many things to avoid air contamination but just some of them do.
In undeveloped countries there are few and ineffective laws and programs to combat contamination, governments try to create programs and laws to prevent contamination, but its either ineffective or they just don't care much about it. For example and as written in Jonathan Kaimans article for theguardian.com in China the pollution level in Beijing reaches 750 points in a 0-500 scale and according to the WHO 0-25 is the safe daily level.
Governments have to create strong school programs so that our kids can have a real awareness about pollution and contamination not just a idea of what it is and what it can cause, also another issue is that governments could have and can do is to create strong laws for individuals and for industries to make them think twice before letting go toxic substances into the air, to fine the company for releasing toxic substances into the air would not just cut them from doing it because probably the fine equals just a 2% of what they make releasing toxic things into the environment so the only way to get in the heads of big industries that just want to earn money is to teach them about the consequences of contaminating the environment and that has to be taught when they are little and this goes back to my other point about strongly teaching about the consequences of contamination in schools and out of them.
The government can give a certain amount of money to businesses that work cleanly and for the environment, after all it is for the greater good. Because of inefficient government programs to spread environmental awareness and laws to prohibit contamination many countries are now stuck trying to clean their lands, sea and sky when meanwhile people are in their comes burning tires or throwing toxic things to the sky, land or sea, and this is all because they were not properly taught about the consequences of doing such things.
For this and for many other reasons I strongly believe that the government is the one to blame for air pollution and for any type of contamination that is affecting their country over individuals and businesses.
In undeveloped countries there are few and ineffective laws and programs to combat contamination, governments try to create programs and laws to prevent contamination, but its either ineffective or they just don't care much about it. For example and as written in Jonathan Kaimans article for theguardian.com in China the pollution level in Beijing reaches 750 points in a 0-500 scale and according to the WHO 0-25 is the safe daily level.
Governments have to create strong school programs so that our kids can have a real awareness about pollution and contamination not just a idea of what it is and what it can cause, also another issue is that governments could have and can do is to create strong laws for individuals and for industries to make them think twice before letting go toxic substances into the air, to fine the company for releasing toxic substances into the air would not just cut them from doing it because probably the fine equals just a 2% of what they make releasing toxic things into the environment so the only way to get in the heads of big industries that just want to earn money is to teach them about the consequences of contaminating the environment and that has to be taught when they are little and this goes back to my other point about strongly teaching about the consequences of contamination in schools and out of them.
The government can give a certain amount of money to businesses that work cleanly and for the environment, after all it is for the greater good. Because of inefficient government programs to spread environmental awareness and laws to prohibit contamination many countries are now stuck trying to clean their lands, sea and sky when meanwhile people are in their comes burning tires or throwing toxic things to the sky, land or sea, and this is all because they were not properly taught about the consequences of doing such things.
For this and for many other reasons I strongly believe that the government is the one to blame for air pollution and for any type of contamination that is affecting their country over individuals and businesses.
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