Air pollution and it's effects to human.

Good morning to all active steemians here in Steem Kids & Parent community, I truly believe we all had a peaceful night rest. I am delighted to post on a Topic "Air pollution and it's effects to human".

It's so sad that most time we ignorantly do things that can actually be harmful to our health. Air pollution is one one mean of pollution that's is very hazardous to humans, In this topic I will highlight it's negativity and how to avoid some act so as to maintain and live a healthy lifestyle.

Let's answer some questions below...

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what is Air Pollution?

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Air pollution is said to be the presence of harmful substances in the air that can probably have negative effects to human health, environment and quality of air in overall. Any gaseous or particle substances that pollute the air making it unpleasant or harmful when inhaling, is known as air pollutants.

pollutants can either be natural or man made which comes from various sources such as pollutant emit from industries, vehicle exhaust, burning of fossil fuels i.e any combustible substance and agricultural activities. Common air pollutants include nitrogen dioxide (NO₂) likely from fertilizers industries also (CO and CO₂) carbon monoxide and carbon (iv)oxides are mostly emitted from burning of fuels e.g burning of waste and from vehicles.

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Effects of air pollution on human health?

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Let's discuss four (4) effects of of air pollution on human health below.

• Respiratory problems: from health study Air pollution always cause and worsen respiratory conditions such as asthma, bronchitis and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, making our environment so uncomfortable for those patients which at the same time developing disease in our organs slowly.

• Increased the risk of cancer: health study proves that long term exposure to certain air pollutants such as benzene C₆H₆ that's from rubber industries, eventually leads to increased risk of developing lung cancers and other cancers like bladder, breast and liver cancer.

• Cardiovascular issues: health study also proves that exposure to air pollution increases the risk of cardiovascular diseases. Cardiovascular issue actually refer to any disease that affects the heart and blood vessels which including strokes, heart attacks and high blood pressure.

• Premature death: health stupy proves that long term exposure to high levels of air pollution may leads to the increase in risk of premature death. This is obvious from it's combination of respiratory and cardiovascular effects, along with cancers development, this contributes to the increase of prematured death.

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Two effects of air pollution on the environment

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It so sad that pollution has a very bad effect on our environment which causes harm to our health. Let's read some of the environmental effects...

• Acidic Rain: Air pollutants such as oxides from sulphur and nitrogen a
  Causes acid rain when combine with water vapor in the atmosphere which results as acidic rain.
  this acid rain has a lot of negative effects especially in damaging forests, crops and the bodies of water in general, this makes them uninhabitable for most species.

• Ozone Depletion: when I first heard that pollution can cause ozone depletion it was very shocking to me that I had to make research and find out to know that certain air pollutants like chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) can destroy the ozone layer in the stratosphere. I learn that this depletion allows harmful ultraviolet radiation from the sun to reach the Earth's surface making the earth very hot leading to increased risks of skin cancer and damage to the marine ecosystems.

This are the most negative effects of air pollution in our environment along side with the health effects as we discussed previously.

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Some solutions and strategies to reduce air pollution

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Let's see some strategies to reduce this enemy

• one of the strategy include planting trees and create green spaces in our environment, increasing or planting numbers of trees in urban areas can help absorb pollutants and improve air quality as tree take in the pollutants and release good air for humans respiration.

• Another strategy is by raising the awareness and educating the public about the harmful effects of air pollution and providing information on how to reduce it can encourage individuals to adopt cleaner practices and avoid unnecessary combustion.

• Also implementing the practice of not burning Fuel when not necessary as it causes harm like acidic rain and ozone depletion.

• another strategy is by encouraging waste management and recycling, doing this will prevent the release of harmful pollutants into the air from waste incineration.

In Conclusion
It is very iy as we all have the awareness of the negative effects caused by Air pollution to put into practice the strategy to reduce all sort of health pollutants so as to secure our lives, please let's join hands and make our communities a comfortable to live.

Thank you all for your precious time spent to read my article today, love you all.

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