SEC-S16 / W4 | "The Environment and Our Health"🌍👩‍⚕️

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In the beginning, He created the Earth. What was on the earth he created, nothing? So he started making the Earth rich with trees, plants, fruit trees, water bodies, sky, flying creatures, animals, humans, and lot more. He made all these just for us to enjoy.

From these things made, humans created a space from these plants and grasses that would comfortable for them to live on while the animals and other living things reside elsewhere.

Sad to say, these spaces created by humans have been exploited for good and bad as well. They use these spaces as their home but sometimes do things in the spaces that affect other living things and non-living. The English word for these spaces is called Environment.

Environment is an area(s) where humans, living things and non-living things occupy, inhabit, live or are found. In this environment, one inhabitant carryout activities that influences other inhabitants positively and negatively. Man is one of those major inhabitants that affects or influences other inhabitants with their activities positively and negatively.

To take an instance, the place you live has a non-living thing as your shelter, living things such as the plants, trees, grasses, animals and you. The spaces all these things occupy is called An Environment. If you cut down trees for your own usage, you have affected the trees negatively and influenced yourself positively. Your burning wastes and organic matter has greatly affected the atmosphere and has contaminated the air in which others including you breath.

Little wonder it's said that man has dominated man and other things to his harm. The environment is something that should be taken care of and not made uncomfortable for others to live. This is a major point used in debate that village life is better than life in the city. I'll expatiate this.

This is the environment in the village, so calm, quiet and less polluted in terms of air and land. The presence of trees has helped filtered air making it safe for breathing. That's why people in the village live longer because of their environment

In the city, there's noise which alone is capable of bringing the environment to its fall. There are other things that have greatly affected the environment in the city that makes it uncomfortable for living. That's why an awareness scheme is made every month on Environmental health.

I just gave a clue above to show how environment has affected well-being positively and negatively.

positively: The growing of crops and trees has made the environment safe and suitable for humans well-being. Without these plants in the environment, how well will man eat and grow? The water gotten from underground is being filtered and treated in the environment so that humans can live. In the case of solar, it has being used to conserve energy from the sun which is major aspect of environmental health and growth.

Negatively: The use of industries close to residential areas has really affected humans and other living things as their lives are are stake because of the noise, air pollution that affects breathing, waste that makes living repulsive and uncomfortable**. These industries are controlled by man and has really affected the environment in which others live. That's why it's advised that industries should be situated far away from residential house.

The churches that use huge loud speakers to affect residents living in a particular area with an excuse that they are praising God. I can remember when one politician in my area sued a church to court for nuisance*. They use this medium to disturb the environment create.

There are different forms of pollution that affects that greatly affect the environment in which we live in. These are the noise, air, water and land pollution. Starting with noise;

The horns from vehicles, engines in industries, generators in homes etc, do affect the peace of those people who lives close to these sources of noise and sometimes it causes headache. Not to talk of the churches today. Their noise pollution seems to be silenced because anyone that question would be reprimanded saying the praises and worship to God's spirit is tormenting the wicked individual. This is mostly common in Nigeria. A man arrested his neighbour for using his generator to disturb him at night

Noise pollution

The burning of fossils, trees and wastes not only affect the air we breath but also kills some living organisms in the soil

Air pollution

People find pleasure littering the places the live in or the roads they use, not minding if their environment is clean or not. The inhalation of these wastes can make one sick

In cases of land pollution, despite the governments efforts to tackle this problem, it has become a norm. The actions taken or enforced now is the monthly environmental sanitation every last Saturday of the month. This sanitation exercise is compulsory by all and anyone seen violating this rule, would be arrested or fined.

Another measure is the provision of trash cans* by the road sides to prevent illicit dumping of wastes on the floor which makes the road unkempt and unsafe for the breathing of those living close to areas of such or in shops and the likes of them.

Planting of trees as well is very essential and helps in protecting the environment from unnecessary hazards like strong winds and also with the filtration of air we breathe.

Most people view it as a normal way of life. Because others are doing, I should also do same. Majority aren't enlightened of the importance of environmental growth and health. They feel little things like littered wastes can't cause harm to the body.

Awareness is done in form of the monthly sanitation exercise. With this, many has seen the need to clean their environment and homes at least once every month which seems to be compulsory. They now value such cleanliness because of the awareness that dirty environment is detrimental to one's health.

In conclusion, I give accolades to @steemforbetterlife community for creating awareness on environmental growth and the ecosystem. I also give @irawandedy accolades for always organising contests on saving the environment so to speak. He is creating awareness and we are learning as well.

All pictures are mine

I invite @ngoenyi, @heriadi and @okere-blessing to participate.