What is the most important reason for water or air pollution?

yimi

The reason for pollution is its easier and cheaper to pollute than to not pollute. No reason is important.

poldi2

The reason for pollution is its easier and cheaper to pollute than to not pollute. No reason is important.

RockIt

1. Man's Population growth explosion world wide over last 100 years. 2. Man's use of resources to pursue a higher standard of living. Result: Air, land, water pollution, environmental destruction, habitat destruction, species extinction, resource depletion And nobody has figured out how to raise standards of living world wide without doing the above and people won't stop procreating like weeds, so expect more of the same bad outcomes getting worse.

busterwasmycat

Existence. Our very existence causes pollution. 7 Billion people crapping every day is a good amount of pollution, never mind everything else that they do. We add to that basic unavoidable amount through technology and failure to respect the capacity of the system to respond to the affront. You want more than you can hunt and gather? You will pollute. It is that simple. Cannot prevent pollution but we can minimize it by doing corrective methods to clean it up before we dump it into the wild.

Инна

Endless exploitation and destruction of mankind

PR

Probably fossil fuel, but if this is a question for schoolwork, don't ask people on here. Google: Reasons for water pollution; reasons for air pollution; causes of pollution. You may actually get the wrong answer on here.

Anonymous

There are no reasons just causes