What you do on land can greatly impact the fate of those in the air and in the sea. The things we eat and the air we smell are tremendously impacted by the smallest of actions, like missing the trash can when throwing away a water bottle or tossing a plastic fork on the ground. An abundant amount of people don’t realize the affects of that one water bottle alone. Pollution comes in many different ways including air pollution and water pollution. Pollution has devastating effects on the environment, which results in irreversible effects to the ocean’s ecosystem, health problems and abnormal conditions. Anything added into the environment that results in producing harmful or poisonous effects on living things is called pollution.
Pollution is the process that makes nature’s resources such as land, water, air or other parts of the environment unsafe or unsuitable to use. Pollution can be of many types: soil, air, water, thermal, radioactive, noise, and light. The toxins released are inhaled by each one of us while we breathe. The continuance of pollution will have a long term, negative impacts on not only the environment but also on environmental resources.
A majority of people in the world today aren’t aware that pollution exists or they don’t know what is it is. There are many types of pollution that affect our environment in totally different ways. From the pollution in the water; to the pollution is the sky, it is impacting us all the time and in every way. Land Pollution is waste collated at Earth’s surface, garbage on roads, industrial debris, pesticides, and insecticides.
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Unwanted wastes lying and being decomposed release harmful gases and lead to pollution. Water Pollution is waste disposed of in rivers, oceans act as pollutant in water bodies. Raw sewage, oil spills, and chemical refuse create poisonous water and hence lead to water pollution. Air pollution is due to the burning of fossil fuels, release of gases from vehicles release mono-oxide, carbon-di-oxide, industrial pollution, and nuclear radiations. Noise Pollution comes from vehicle horns, loud music, construction machinery sounds, and other human activities create noise.
This affects humans and animals, their natural vegetation and create Noise Pollution.Thermal Pollution is the result of manufacturing activities that lead to a rise in the temperature of water and land. This affects marine and plant life. Such activities lead to thermal pollution. (Fleming 5) Pollution comes in many forms and is anything added into the environment that results in producing harmful or poisonous effect on living things is called pollution. It is the process that makes nature’s resources such as land, water, air or other parts of the environment unsafe or unsuitable to use. Pollution can be of many types: soil, air, water, thermal, radioactive, noise, and light. The toxins released are inhaled by each one of us while we breathe and harmfully affects us.
Pollution has a great negative impact on the food we eat as well the environment. Microbial contamination by bacteria, viruses and protists, related directly and indirectly to human and animal activity is increasingly affecting the safety of the seafood supply, as well as the commercial and recreational use of coastal marine waters. In addition to the devastatingly high polluted cities, contamination of marine waters has lead to the increasing threat of high levels of heavy metals, polyaromatic hydrocarbons, and other environmentally persistent substances entering the marine food chain. Food poisoning and recreational/occupational exposure to contaminated marine waters have been estimated to cost millions of dollars in health costs and loss of income worldwide.
Plastic kills fish, birds, marine mammals and sea turtles, it destroys habitats and even affects animals’ mating rituals. This can have devastating consequences and can wipe out entire species. About 36% of oil enters the ocean from land run-off. (Fleming 3) Pollution comes in many different ways and affects many animals all around the world. Water pollution has a greater affect on animals in the water because when marine life is exposed to pollution they are at risk of consuming bacteria. The long-term negative affects start here; as we hunt for the fish and cook them as our meal, we are consuming all the bacteria that the marine animal has eaten. This leads to problems within the human body and harmfully impacts us. Pollution is not only affecting environmental resources but also the environment and habitats themselves.
What you do on land can change the fate of what goes on off shore, and small mistakes in waste disposal can have a large impact on everyone’s health and well-being. Long and short term exposure to air suspended toxicants has a different toxicological impact on humans including respiratory and cardiovascular diseases, neuropsychiatric complications, eye irritation, skin diseases, and long-term chronic diseases such as cancer. Chemicals such as pesticides, lead and other heavy metals found in polluted water can contaminate water supplies and food chains through the marine life affected. When people hunt and cook some of the marine life, they are unaware that they have just consumed the contamination that the fish ate previously and this can cause things like hormonal problems, reproductive problems, nervous system damage, and kidney damage.
Bacteria turns metals like mercury into their most toxic form, which is then absorbed by plankton, making its way up the food chain till it ends up on your plate. This can result in Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, and heart disease. (Lonne 2) Pollution can cause terrible affects to the human body, from heart disease to long-term chronic diseases such as cancer. The vast variety of ranges all the way from water bottles to metals like mercury. Marine life, such as fish, consume large amounts of pollution and then the animals get hunted for food and they end up on our plates, which causes long term affects on the human body.
Pollution not only has impacts on the environment but also the people living in it. Six and-a-half million human deaths were associated with indoor and outdoor air pollution. That number has more than doubled since 2012. This is due to pollution particles clogging people’s airways and causing pro-inflammatory inflammation, and allergens causing asthma. Airway hyper-reactivity can affect particle deposition in a number of ways. Deposition can be increased in the conducting airways and some peripheral regions as a result of both obstruction and increased air flow to the better ventilated areas of the lung. Most particle pollution is pro-inflammatory and aggravates pre-existing airway inflammation.
This can can an increase in pro-inflammatory mechanisms and accelerates the inflammatory cascade. Allergens are a major factor in asthma development and exacerbation. The intensity of asthma symptoms and bronchial responsiveness varies with allergen sensitization, and people with allergic asthma are at increased risk for particle pollution-related health effects during times of high-allergen exposure. Lead pollution can also affect the kidneys, liver, nervous system, and the other organs. (Particle Pollution 3-4) Pollution is affects the human body after dangerous gases in the environment are released by the power industries that burn fossil fuels, industries that dispose wastes in the water, farmers using pesticides, high usage of artificial lights and loud sounds. Natural activities other than the human activities like volcanic eruption, and dust wildfires can also result in creation of pollution. When the particles from pollution are breathed in by humans it can cause respiratory problems, asthma, and even cancer. All these affects can be long-term and can greatly impact the human body.
Four of the top ten air-polluted cities are in Iran. Ahvaz is the most air polluted city in the world with micro-dust blowing in from neighboring countries, and it has levels three times that of Beijing, and nearly 13 times that of London. Air pollution caused almost 4460 deaths in 2013 only in Tehran but that number rises every year. There are some temporary but not necessarily trustworthy strategies to reduce air pollution in cities. For example, increasing the price of fuels, planting trees around and inside the city, replacing old cars with modern or electric ones, and increasing road taxes and car insurance may reduce the amount of air pollutants, but in order to keep the constancy or even optimization, these strategies need to be continued. (Fleming 2-3)
The continuation of air pollution has harmful affects on places all of the world, especially Iran. Ahvaz, which is located in Iran, is the most polluted place in the world. The micro dust is breathed in and caused about 4460 deaths in Ahvaz. There are many things that have been done to try and reduce the pollution in Iran like planting more trees around and inside of the city and reducing the amount of gas fueled cars in Iran. These changes can impact Iran and the rest of the world and can help reduce long-term negative affects on environmental resources.
Pollution has a great negative impact on the food we eat as well the environment. Microbial contamination by bacteria, viruses and protists, related directly and indirectly to human and animal activity is increasingly affecting the safety of the seafood supply, as well as the commercial and recreational use of coastal marine waters. In addition to the devastatingly high polluted cities, contamination of marine waters has lead to the increasing threat of high levels of heavy metals, polyaromatic hydrocarbons, and other environmentally persistent substances entering the marine food chain. Food poisoning and recreational/occupational exposure to contaminated marine waters have been estimated to cost millions of dollars in health costs and loss of income worldwide. Plastic kills fish, birds, marine mammals and sea turtles, it destroys habitats and even affects animals’ mating rituals. This can have devastating consequences and can wipe out entire species. About 36% of oil enters the ocean from land run-off. (Fleming 3) Pollution comes in many different ways and affects many animals all around the world. Water pollution has a greater affect on animals in the water because when marine life is exposed to pollution they are at risk of consuming bacteria. The long-term negative affects start here; as we hunt for the fish and cook them as our meal, we are consuming all the bacteria that the marine animal has eaten. This leads to problems within the human body and harmfully impacts us. Pollution is not only affecting environmental resources but also the environment and habitats themselves.
The continuance of pollution will have a long term, negative impact on not only the environment but also on environmental resources. To begin, there are many types of pollution that affect our environment in totally different ways. What you do on land can change the fate of what goes on off shore, and small mistakes in waste disposal can have a large impact on everyone’s health and well-being. In addition, four of the top ten air-polluted cities are in Iran. Ahvaz is the most air polluted city in the world with micro-dust blowing in from neighboring countries, and particulate levels three times that of Beijing, and nearly 13 times that of London.
In final conclusion, I think that there can be many ways in which we can help our environment like conserving energy by remembering to turn off lights, computers, and electric appliances when not in use. Use energy efficient light bulbs and appliances, participate in your local utility’s energy conservation programs, limit driving by carpooling, using public transportation, biking and walking, combine errands for fewer trips
