Pollution And Climate Change

The human race has developed a lot over centuries. There have been developments of factories and technologies to make everyday living easier. But these developments have been affecting our ecosystem drastically. Pollution can be classified as air, water or land pollution. It is depleting earth’s resources and causing damage to the lives of humans. According to WWF “there could be multiple forms of contamination—streams full of toxic chemicals from industrial processes, rivers overloaded with nutrients from farms, trash blowing away from landfills, city skies covered in smog”.

These pollution's are the cause of humans trying to make living easier and cheaper but what they are not taking into consideration that we are destroying our own home. If we look at The United States of America, there are some states who are consistently trying to minimize the pollution such as having smog test for vehicles or not using plastic bags but resorting to recyclable bags. While On the other hand other states do the complete opposite. This is not helping to cope with the problem of pollution.

Over the centuries, the industries have expanded to different continents and the effects of this has affected environment. These industries have provided employment to millions of people but how many are living a healthy life. The chemicals used by these industries have slowly deteriorated the health of these workers. We look at countries such as china, the pollution rate in the country has increased way beyond its limit. The air is so polluted that people have to wear masks to do their daily tasks. Air pollution is when chemicals are being released in the earth’s atmosphere. Due to this there have been changes in the earth’s climate.

Let’s look at how California is going through a drought. We are all suffering the consequences of the pollution. There is a limited water available and the government has implemented penalties to those who exceed their water limit. Moving on, staying on the topic of drought we look at water pollution. The documentary Gas land states how the mining of oil has polluted the wells people used as water source. On top of the pollution, the companies mining the oil did not take responsibility for their mistake. These people have to pay for the water which they used to have for free. These mining industries use at least 40 trillion gallons of water just to mine the oil. These later end up in contaminating the water source we use. This is just one of the examples of how industries are destroying our ecosystem.

Land pollution is also at rise, there is so much waste a person uses that it ends up in a landfill. Plastic is the major contributor to pollution. This ends up in our surrounding and even end up in the sea. As mentioned earlier, California has taken a major step to stop the usage of plastic bags in shopping centers.  Next time you go to buy groceries, you might either you’re your own recyclable bag or end up buying one.

We as human beings should consider that earth is our home and we should try and protect it for our future generations. Earth is one of the planets we know that is susceptible to life. The pollution that has been created by humans is decreasing this susceptibility. Our ozone layer is being depleted, our clean water sources are running out, the air is filled with chemicals. Has the human race not seen all these signs? What are we going to do about to save our home?