The Atmosphere B. Management Issues C. Air Pollution D. Climate Air resource issues may be considered to be the most critical of all resource management issues. We are bathed in air and have little or no personal control over the air we breathe. While indoor air may be have technologically simple practical solutions, outdoor air and climate really do not.
Water is a much easier media to treat than is air and personal control is much greater.
Fundamentally air, of all issues, strikes closely to individual human health and the survivability of the human species. Polluted water and toxic dumps are bad, but do not have the potential to cause such widespread harm. This unit on air begins, as the other units, with a consideration of the ecological attributes of the basic resource.