Why Environmental Pollution is Harmful for You?

In today's densely populated, technology-driven, high consumption-oriented, and mass production-based world, it has become extremely difficult for you to protect your friends, office colleagues, relatives, family members, and loved ones from harmful health effects of environmental pollution which badly affect quality of different natural and man-made resources such as air, seas, oceans, rivers, ponds, lands, forests, atmosphere of earth planet, crops, and contamination caused through use of massive physical infrastructures and disposal of wastes of digital technology, respectively.

All educated, well-informed, and conscious nations fear about consistently growing levels of environmental pollution which not only affect mental, physical, and emotional health of people, but unsafe concentrations of Carbon Dioxide (CO2) into the environment, say greater than 700 parts per million (ppm) also badly contaminate quality of air, water, soils, ecology of earth planet, and pose dangerous for your life, provided you stay in this type of unsafe atmosphere for extended time period.

Water Borne Diseases

When untreated industrial effluents, poisonous chemicals, and urban wastes are discharged directly into the rivers and ponds, then health of people badly affects through drinking and using contaminated water, so, as a consequence, their exposure to unsafe water for extended time period can cause different types of ailments such as diarrhea, dysentery, typhoid fever, issues related to reproductive system, coli infection, ulcer, gastrointestinal pain, rashes on skins, neurological issues, layers of white coating on tongue, and other physiological and psychological abnormalities.

Urban Slums

Besides bad quality of water supply and lack of cleanliness, those urban slums which tend to manage open filthy drainage system, lack in sanitation, and show heaps of garbage at their streets, so, these kinds of slums are fertile grounds for spreading of contamination, breeding of mosquitoes, deadly germs, and causing chronic diseases.

Harmful Effects of Air Pollution

There are lots of causes of air pollutions which continue to affect health of people such as thick poisonous smokes that emit from motorcycles, cars, trucks, buses, other vehicles, and burning of fossil fuels, coals, synthetic materials, plastics, other polymers, jungles, woods, and bushes in open grounds.

There are other factors which continue to increase carbon footprints into the earth's atmosphere like chimneys of factories, taking off airplanes, cruising ships, vessels, rocket launching, firing of long and short range missiles during conflicts or wars, filthy standing water channels, rotten offals, and lots of production sites where petroleum-based fossil fuels are burned for making intermediary and final goods, so, these factors combining create harmful health effects.

Due to prolonged exposure to environment filled with carbon footprints containing range equal to, in between, or greater than 800 - 1000 ppm, then you can develop different diseases and symptoms such as lung cancer, stroke, asthma, respiratory infection, throat sore, inflammation in chest, liver problems, headaches, dizziness, restlessness, feeling of suffocation, tiredness, high blood pressure, and increased pulse rate.

Safe CO2 Concentration for Health

To maintain healthy and lead happier way of life, then it is important for you to breathe in fresh air which contains safe CO2 concentration that is less than or equal to 400 ppm. 

Fortunately, if your home or workplace surroundings are replete with green plants, trees, grass, and blossoming flowers, then you are in a state of emotional balance and excellent physical health because these types of environments provide you high quality air to inhale.

Global Warming

Due to extensive commercial, industrial, and residential activities like plying lots of vehicles on roads, flying airplanes, running factories, power plants, air conditioners, refrigerators, and functioning of other equipment and machines, therefore, all these activities combining burn fossil fuels, consume massive amount of energy, and continue to release carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, methane, chlorofluorocarbons, and water vapors into the environment, thus, through these pursuits, ozone layers get depleted and cause high degree of heatwaves on earth planet.

High levels of greenhouse gases trap sun's heat and radiations and reflect the same back to earth which tend to cause global warming, so, as a result, melting glaciers, rising of sea level, torrential downpours, flooding, drought, and smog can happen in different parts of the world.

Polluted Soils

Besides atmospheric contamination caused by burning fossil fuels, discharging effluents in oceans, rivers, and ponds, extensive use of pesticides, other chemicals, and salinity affect quality of cultivated lands which make their soils and crops vulnerable to viruses, bacteria, fungus, and pathogens, so, ingesting and inhaling these pollutants can cause harmful effects for your health.

Digital Pollution

Today's world is technology-oriented, fast-paced, and swiftly communicating that heavily relies on huge worldwide webs of internet that are connected and supported through massive networks of undersea cables, geostationary earth satellites, low-earth orbit satellites, and big communication towers around the world. 

The invisible 24/7 cyber connectivity and seamless integration of internet with different things such as smartphones, applications, websites, equipment, smart machineries, vehicles, strategic installations, institutions, companies, terminals, networks, big physical servers, and huge data centers become possible only through undersea cables, satellites, communication towers, Internet of Things, 5G networks, and Cloud Computing.

To manufacture and design computers, laptops, tablets, smartphones, printers, terminals, physical networks, their various components, and lots of accessories require extensive uses of metals like gold, silver, palladium, platinum, copper, nickel, aluminium, and other valuable synthetic materials which are extracted, collected, refined, shaped, and made with great amount of labor, so, these activities tend to burn fossil fuels, consumer huge water resources and energy, so, as a result, high levels of carbon footprints continue to increase on international scale.

Operating and running different things like office computers, personal computers, laptops, tablets, smartphones, printers, connected gadgets, online video streaming, and other online activities consume huge volume of electricity, thus, high energy is consumed which tends to increase carbon footprints on global scale. 

Besides huge level of electricity consumption, physical E-waste tends to contaminate environment because people have tendency to discard or replace their laptops, tablets, smartphones, and printers even these are in good working condition.

In addition to contamination being caused from extracting precious metals, large numbers of organizations, institutions, companies, and billions of people operate internet-integrated or cloud-based electronic gadgets, applications, core operational systems, computers, wearables, identifiers, equipment, automated machines, online video streaming, industrial machineries, and other objects which combining require huge energy consumption, therefore, these kinds of activities continue to degrade quality of air, water, and lands worldwide.

Solutions

To keep earth's atmosphere clean, optimize, and protect it from environmental pollution, then it is essential to invest money in developing, designing, installing, and running huge infrastructures for renewable energy sources which are naturally found in abundance on this earth planet.

The unlimited renewable energy sources that are naturally available in abundance on this earth planet include solar power, water, wind, currents found in tidal waves, extensive heat energy below earth's surface, and biomass that is obtained from agricultural, industrial, and domestic wastes.

To protect your lungs, throat, and chest from direct exposure to toxic gases, thick fumes, environmental pollutants, poisonous gases, carcinogens, and coronavirus, your friends, loved ones, relatives, and yourself should wear quality leather face masks or face masks made of textile fabrics, and synthetic materials.

To reduce impacts of environmental pollution, you should try your level best to use digital finished products, appliances, televisions, and other consumers goods till their complete useful life and not to discard or replace them even these are in good working and useable conditions.

To reduce stomach related illnesses, you should take clean and safe drinking water, if not available, then you should boil tapped water before drinking it.

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