DONT BREAK IT IF YOU CAN'T FIX IT

The world used to be a nice place for both man and other organisms till man decided to deviate from the balanced because of his dominance over others and tried to cheat Nature and its environment by its activities such as deforestation, bio modifications, overpopulation which has lead other negative effects on the Environment which man never bargained for like pollution, global warming, climate change, ozone depletion etc. This piece of work will be talking about pollution and its effects and facts.

Pollution can be described as the introduction of harmful,toxic or poisonous substances to a place (environment in this case) where it does not belong, usually by humans that are harmful to living organisms. Pollution can be in different forms such as air pollution, water pollution, agricultural pollution and land pollution.


Effects and Facts about pollution
Pollution is one of the biggest killers, affecting more than 100 million worldwide.

5000 people die every day as a result of drinking unclean water.

The garbage dumped in the ocean every year is roughly around 14 billion pounds. Plastic is the major constituent.

Pollution kills more than 1 million seabirds and 100 million mammals every year.

People who live in high-density air pollution area, have 20% higher risk of dying from lung cancer, than people living in less polluted areas.

In the great “Smog Disaster“, that happened in London in the year 1952, approximately four thousand people died in a few days due to the high concentrations of pollution.

Children contribute to only 10% of the world’s pollution but are prone to 40% of global disease.

China is the world’s largest producer of carbon dioxide. United States is number 2.

The amount of money invested in nuclear test could be used to finance 8,000 hand pumps, giving villages across third world access to clean water

More than 100 pesticides in any medium- air, water or soil can cause birth defects, gene mutation and cancer.

The list will keep on rolling in till we all learn to stop and reduce our daily activities that are leading to this act…… it is better late than never is said, take that step today and spread the news about the danger of pollution to our Environment …. We should always remember that our environment will echo back our actions back to us..
I will be writing more on other forms, causes, effects preventions and controls of pollution….. see you next time!!! .
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