Environmental Pollution And Its Effects On The Environment

Water is probably the most important resource we as people have. Humans can survive without food for several weeks, but without water we would die in less than a week. On a slightly less dramatic note, millions of liters of water are needed every day worldwide for washing, irrigating crops, and cooling industrial processes, not to mention leisure industries such as swimming pools and water-sports centers. Despite our dependence on water, we use it as a dumping ground for all sorts of waste, and do very little to protect the water supplies we have.

More than half of the human population knows what pollution is but we are still not ready to face it's damaging consequences. Pollution occurs when pollutants contaminate the natural surroundings; which brings about changes that affect our normal lifestyles adversely. Pollution comes in many forms and no matter where you live, you've probably seen some form of it. Some litter of NYC city streets to the smog that lingers ov0er LA to the plastic trash that floats in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, the visible signs of pollution are more than evident. The main reason for a why pollution has gotten too out of control is that our desire for more “stuff” has led to our old stuff being thrown away at an alarming and unnecessary rate. As humans we have impacted the environment in so many different ways. The 3 main pollutants i will be talking to you about is water, air, and soil pollutions since these are the three main ones that are affecting not only us as humans but our planet that we live on.. These three main pollutants have affected the environment in many different ways such as climate change and even habitat destruction towards our planet and is in need to be taking some Extreme Measures and actions in order to decrease the pollution to our home.

There is no denying consumerism has become an issue of today’s society. People are consuming more than they ever have before. Because of it material culture has become an increasing area of study. Material culture is described as the relationship between people and their material things. People are owning more stuff which is leading to major problems. The mass consumptions of these goods has a negative impact on the planet. It takes lots of energy and resources to produce a product, thus takes a negative toll on the planet. Rainforest are cut down, habits are destroyed, global warming increases, waste and toxic gases have increased, animals are killed, and people are displaced.

astes of the peels contribute to pollution of the environment. Recently, food industries are being forced by government to develop productions without secondary residues. Therefore, there are considerable emphases on the recovery, recycling and upgrading their by-products. Since these by-products antioxidant activities (Bauer et al., 2012) and could be converted into a range of commercial products (Martínez et al., 2012). For those reasons, different researches have assayed different methods in order to obtain new raw material products from fruits and vegetables processing by products (Calín-Sánchez et al., 2012). Large scale consumption as fresh fruits, the Citrus fruits are mainly processed to produce juice. The waste of Citrus fruits processing industry left after juice extraction, such as peels, pulps and seeds, corresponding to about 50% of the raw processed, fruit can be used as a potential source of valuable by products, (El Adawy et al., 1999). In Egypt and in many Mediterranean countries, major quantities of the peel are not further processed, if not processed further, it becomes waste produce odor, soil pollution, harborage for insects and can give rise to serious environmental pollution, (Mandalari et al., 2006). Some attempts were made to use these residues as livestock feed. Although their low nutritional value allowed only limited success (Bampidis and Robinson, 2006).

the residents, including residents in nearby towns that may rely on the company for employment. Individuals and communities are further victimized in cases of pollution due to the damage to our eco-system. Pollution damages living and non living elements of the eco-system and resources are impacted by pollution. Furthermore the wildlife and even family pets are impacted which in turn re victimizes the individual people (given the limited definitions to consider nature and wildlife "victims").

Depending on your environmental standpoint, the market could be the solution to our environmental problems or it could be what is causing them. Using a market approach to solve environmental problems means employing tactics such as green taxes, green consumption, offsetting, cap and trade policies, double dividends, and fixing how subsidies are distributed. Green taxes help companies to pay for the true cost of their activities, “Pollution taxes or green taxes have been called ‘corrective taxes’ because they correct price distortions that result from a failure to include the full cost of resource depletion or environmental destruction in the end price of a product or an industry’s activity” (Good News For a Change, 302). Examples of green taxes are landfill costs, toxic waste taxes, or carbon taxes. Denmark has tried their hand at a carbon tax on industry emissions, they took money for the company’s emissions and then returned the money back to said industry in order to help the industry invent ways to reduce energy use in their production. Another example of a green tax is when “some municipalities have required households to dispose of all waste in special trash bags, purchased by consumers themselves, and often costing a dollar or more each” (Environment and Society: Markets and Commodities, 39). Green consumption gives consumers the ability to choose desired environmental impact with their wallet. If a consumer is worried about carbon emissions they can purchase products

Whether individuals choose to believe in it or not, environmental destruction is a very real and apparent social problem that needs to be addressed before it is too late to save the Earth. Numerous factors such as the climate change, disposal of waste, deforestation, and the quality of air and water impact the destruction of our world. The majority of the blame for our Earth’s deterioration falls on the human race, however, some of the blame does fall on industries, that for example may improperly dispose of their waste. Because of the actions and behaviors of humans as a whole, the environment is suffering irreversible damage. The small population of people that do advocate for change or engage in environment-friendly activities is not enough to help fix the environment alone.

Due to the larger amounts of products being made, there are more pollutants being emitted, more land is being used, and the harmful gases that is being released into our atmosphere helps to accelerate our climate change problem. In his book No Impact Man, Colin Beavan states, “we work out butts off so we can get the stuff, but the making of the stuff destroys the planet, which makes us more depressed,...” (Beavan, pg 142). In this quote, Beavan states how people keep on buying despite the negative effects it has on our environment.

Air is vital to our planet, life is simply impossible without it. Air pollution “refers to the contamination of the air, irrespective of indoors or outside. A physical, biological or chemical alteration to the air in the atmosphere can be termed as pollution. It occurs when any harmful gases, dust, smoke enters into the atmosphere and makes it difficult for plants, animals and humans to survive as the air becomes dirty.” (Jacobson, 2017) Air pollution has introduced countless negative effects to humans and the local environment. This paper identifies the main air pollutants and its possible causes in my community, comparing air quality with nearby communities and finally, evaluate how to help improve the air quality in the community,

The world we live in is constantly changing with the ways of pollution. How long is it going to be until people start to worry about the damage we are doing to our own home? Many people and families are being affected by pollution every single day. It can cause a variety of health problems that can possibly even lead to death. It’s extremely difficult for people to live in heavily polluted areas. The effects of pollution can sometimes last a lifetime. Not just on humans, but animals and plants too. All living things experience the same problems in these environments.The negative effects of pollution are endless. The water that we drink today is polluted with our own garbage. Not only does it affect the inside of our bodies, but the world around us. The decaying plastic can cause gas to produce and may even lead to random explosions.

Whenever you walk outside, what is one thing you always see, but may not notice? This issue you overlook constantly is pollution, but you are not the only one that does not notice, it is everyone that takes part in this major issue. In my opinion, the government does not take enough part in stopping or lessening this major issue. Across the globe, pollution exists in all communities and continues to worsen, therefore leaders must make environmental issue priorities and commit money and other resources to not only stopping further pollution, but also cleaning up current issues.

Pollution is a very wide-use term that means the introduction of contaminants that cause a negative change into a natural environment. It englobes all sort of contaminations such as air contaminants, water contaminants, solid contaminants on soil and a lot more. As we can see in the World Wild Life website, pollution is a very important issue he have and that we have to fix as soon as possible. There are even natural substances considered as pollutants once they exceed natural levels in a certain area.

In today 's world billions of people do not have access to the clean water they need. They either have to travel miles to get clean water or they have to settle for the unsafe water near them. Water is polluted daily by trash and waste chemicals. There is an island made from trash in the Pacific Ocean and each day it continues to grow. Communities of people die each year for drought, life that could otherwise be saved if only they had access to water. It is possible to stop all these deaths from occurring altogether and to save billions of people from needless deaths.

Pollution is one of the biggest problems human civilization is facing in today's age. It is one of the many challenges the world is facing today. The impacts of pollution lead many people to illness, death and disabilities annually. Global warming is a result of environmental pollution. Developing countries like Bangladesh suffers the most compare to the developed countries as they don't have enough resources and technologies to combat pollution. They don't have the sustainable economic growth and development to focus on the economic goals.

We are living in a world today that is being subjected to various forms of destruction; life on earth is threatened due to the large devastating impact of human industries on the eco-system and on the environment. Over the course of history and with industrialization, humans have developed new smart ways to produce energy and manufacture materials, but these ways aren’t as smart as they may seem, because of the horrendous effects they leave on the environment and on humans themselves. Pollution is an outcome of the forms of destruction that humans have put upon themselves, right from the very first invention of the steam locomotives in the 19th century till the development of nuclear power plants in the 21st century. When we discuss pollution we are looking at a very wide subject, because many aspects branch out from it, these aspects may be classified as follows: - Air pollution.