Pollution; an environmental terrorist - The way forward

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The Environment

This refers to the circumstances, objects, or conditions around us. It the complex of physical, chemical, and biotic factors (such as climate, soil, and living things) that act on an organism or ecological community and ultimately determine its form and survival

The series of social and cultural conditions affecting the life of an individual or community

The environment also refers to, the complex of physical, chemical, and biotic factors that act on an organism or ecological community and ultimately determine its form and survival.

David McBash Phd said, "The environment is man's greatest resource in terms of the fact that man also evolved according to evolutionary science."

Environmental biologist Theodore Finley says, "Humans are complex organisms made up of non-living parts found in the environment, which in turn sustain man."

Finley's excerpt states that the environment supports people and is in no way dangerous. This is a special quality of man as a higher animal, namely being able to change the environment in order to support or adapt it. This is sometimes not the case when, due to human activity and negligence, the environment becomes dangerous in the face of pollution threats.

The Biosphere

Biosphere, the relatively thin layer that supports life on Earth's surface, extending from a few kilometres into the atmosphere to the deep-sea vents in the ocean. The biosphere is a global ecosystem of living organisms (biota) and abiotic (non-living) factors from which they derive energy and nutrients.

The main components of the physical environment are the:

Atmosphere

Climate (climate, conditions of the atmosphere at a specific location over a long period of time; it is the long-term sum of the atmospheric elements (and their variations) that make up the climate over short periods of time. These elements are solar radiation, temperature, humidity, precipitation (type, frequency and amount), atmospheric pressure and wind (speed and direction)

Continental Landform:Continental landform, any prominent topographical feature found on the largest land areas on earth. Well-known examples are mountains (including volcanic cones), plateaux and valleys. (The term landform can also be applied to related features found on the floor of Earth's ocean basins, such as seamounts, mid-ocean ridges, and underwater canyons.) Such structures are formed because of the tectonic mechanisms that produce them and the climatically controlled denudation systems that they change over time, unique. The resulting topographical features tend to reflect both the tectonic and denudation processes involved.

Hydrosphere: hydrosphere, discontinuous layer of water at or near the earth's surface. It includes all liquid and frozen surface water, groundwater contained in soil and rock, and atmospheric water vapor.
Water is the most common substance on the earth's surface. About 1.4 billion cubic kilometers (326 million cubic miles) of water in liquid and frozen form make up the oceans, lakes, streams, glaciers and groundwater there.It is this enormous volume of water in its various guises that forms the discontinuous layer that encloses much of the Earth's surface known as the hydrosphere.

Ocean: Ocean, a continuous body of salt water contained in vast basins on the Earth's surface.
Viewed from space, the dominance of Earth's oceans is evident. The oceans and their marginal seas cover nearly 71 percent of the Earth's surface, with an average depth of 3,688 meters (12,100 feet). Exposed land occupies the remaining 29 percent of the planet's surface and has a mean elevation of about 840 meters (about 2,755 feet). In reality, all of the uplifted land could be hidden beneath the oceans, reducing the Earth to a smooth sphere completely covered by a continuous layer of seawater at depths of more than 2,600 meters (8,530 ft).This is called the spherical depth of the oceans and is used to emphasize the abundance of water on the Earth's surface.

These are some of the problems posed by pollution on the environment and the way forward.

Noise pollution could be viewed as a disorganized sound that is uncomfortable for the listener. Organized or disorganized, any sound that irritates the listener is noise.The volume of sound is measured in decibels. Experts in the field have measured the level at which sound could be dangerous above 45 dB. In homes, people are now using theater systems, the strength of which is more than 45 dB. Luxury or prestige in the short term, is certainly dangerous in the long term, from minor hearing problems to deafness due to excessive vibrations in the middle and inner ear, which damage the auditory nerves. Others are noise from roadside record vendors, heavy factories, etc.

What is the way forward?

The way forward is to keep home sound systems to a minimum without damaging them. In the case of industries, they should be located away from residential buildings. Constant noise pollution should be avoided.
Research shows that hearing problems increase geometrically with constant noise pullution.

Pollution from waste and sewage is another major challenge to our environment. This is more likely to be seen in underdeveloped and third-world countries where poverty levels are higher.

Irregular disposal of waste in drains, around houses and along roads. wastewater, such as Sewage, for example, is discharged directly into sewers around homes and routed through open-surface channels. These are breeding grounds for pathogens that cause illness and infection and disease in the inhabitants of such environments. No wonder malaria is so common in Africa. Garbage can be burned in incinerators at locations some distance from homes. Research shows that some of these gases irritate the lining of the nasal passages and eyes, leading to several eye problems. The wastewater is to be treated without hesitation and the surface channels are to be sealed professionally. In households, dust and dirt must be properly disposed of in containers or rubbish.

Industrial chemicals and fertilizers are also harmful to the human population. The direct discharge of industrial chemicals into water bodies and the leaching of fertilizers into rivers and lakes by rainwater poison the plankton on which fish depend and then pass it on to fish and humans.

Air pollutants include gaseous pollutants such as oxides of carbon, nitrogen, sulfur, etc. Chlorofluorocarbons (commonly known as CFCs) are no exception. This creates the greenhouse effect; Depletion of the ozone layer by greenhouse gases. The emission of these gases is increasing every day with less green life to use as a result of evolution. The Amazon rainforest appears to be the standing forest whose preservation is a global challenge.

As David McBash Phd said, "The environment is man's greatest resource...it must be valued as much as man would not fail to continue in future generations.

We have only one planet, one Environment, lets do all we can to save it today and stay healthy

Thanks for taking a step forward to protect our planet by reading this post, see you in my next post.

Sayonara

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