Cost of Pollution

pollution cost
Pollution costs heavily in terms of deaths, environmental damages, financial losses, moral decay and social degradation. If we put this entire cost in quantified term it could be trillions of dollars per year all around the world but here we won’t do that because guesstimates can’t reflect the real cost of pollution. However, a rough estimate can help one to review one’s life style to at least correct oneself where environment is being hit by one intentionally or intentionally.
Cost of life or deaths
Pollution is silent killer; it’s not a bullet but a slow poison which takes the life gradually and especially of that careless lot which does not pay heeds to its harmful effects and does not take any kind of precautionary measures. Once a little kid forbade an unaware person throwing a wrapper into the sea; that person could not stop his laughter and shrugged off the advice of little kids. He could have thought it a trivial matter to throw a small wrapper into the sea and was not aware of collective damage if thousands of such acts are done daily on various coasts of the world. This is the main reason that we take our individual carelessness about environmental care in isolation and don’t bother to imagine its collective impact on the environment. It means wherever a death is occurred due to pollution all the polluters of the world are responsible for it. It ups to us whether we are able to recall our any act of polluting the environment if we did so it means we also contributed in total deaths in the world occurred due to menace of pollution. In this way every polluter is killer in this world. Who amongst us are polluters, we should ask this question to our conscience.
Environmental damages
Environmental damage is another cost of pollution. In most part of the world mankind has no clean air to breathe, no pure water to drink and no uncontaminated food to eat. Alas! All these boons were created for the mankind but we ourselves have destroyed them and now yearning for their pure quality. It means we are not only hitting the environment but also doing so our own wellbeing. Pollution has damaged air quality, land features and water purity. Now human being itself is mulling over how to rectify its errors of past and mistakes of present by its own race.

Financial losses
Unfortunate and hapless are those industrialists who owing to their short sightedness are avoiding environmental compliance and violating the green laws just to save their manufacturing cost. They poor beings do not know in the long run they are hiking their manufacturing cost because when they would be continuing polluting the environment they would get every input with low quality and higher prices because of environmental damages which would affect the production of every material. So it is not matter of concern how much pollution is costing us financially now but the main concern is how much it would cost us in near future.
Moral decay
Pollution directly affects of our morals. We can see what is happening all around the world morally. There is dog-eats-dog competition in every sphere of life and everyone is trying to beat the other in every materialistic pursuit and no one is paying heed on ethical values and moral standards. What apparently one has is the sole criteria to assess the level of humanity in one and hence why peace of all types is nowhere in the world. This is the heaviest cost of pollution.

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