Acid deposition is by its very nature prone to being an international problem. The source of the pollution may be hundreds of miles away from the area that is affected, depending on that geographic area’s weather patterns. As a result, organizations such as EANET have been formed in order to properly combat acid rain deposition; if one country acts alone, their efforts, however involved, would mean nothing if another country continued to pollute the air in such a way that the acids continued to fall on the first nation.
One country who has gotten a lot of flak recently for their production of acid rain is China. Though this Onion newscast is satirical in nature, it highlights a very real problem for the nation: the need to balance further industrialization with international pressure to conform to environmental standards and curb their production of such things as acid rain.
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On a more serious note, this is a short video of acid deposition in Seoul, South Korea. It documents the visual evidence of the deposited residue on resident’s cars. This is an interesting change from the usual images of damaged trees and buildings, but may carry all the more impact because of the banality of the appearance of acid depositon.
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