Top 3 reasons of pollution

Top three reasons of pollution may be quite a strange topic for you because we off and on read a lengthy list of causes and sources which raise the pollution load on planet earth but do not think about why this menace is rife all around the world. Most strangely whoever is responsible for its spread fully knows its havocs and negative impacts on life and environment but despite of this fact the situation is worsening instead of a little retreat in it.

Global demagogues lambast the acts of polluting and never leave any chance to condemn it. If we count there are innumerable pledges and commitments made at global forums during previous two decades but despite that the green is turning into orange in all components of the earth either it is land, water or air and all are receiving the worst hit.

Pollution a weapon of mass destruction

Pollution is a virtual weapon of mass destruction. Everywhere there is hue and cry against the stockpiles of ammunitions in several countries and developed demagogues waste not time to resolve preemptive strike against them. This spirit is good because weapon is indeed a lethal instrument even if whatever type of it is, but we should see all kinds of weapons with the same eye. Some weapons kill life at once and some kill bye and bye but all of them annihilate the entire life. So which one is the most dangerous?

It is very right that a country found involved in spreading the weapons of mass destruction must be dealt with iron hand and be slammed and condemned at every level globally to stop its likely odd actions against life and nature.

Solutions for pollution

Solutions for pollution are numerous. We can’t adopt all of them in one-go so why should we learn about all of them. Adopting a practical approach, we should look to those which are directly related to our daily life.

Why we are so much worried about rising level of the pollution? Because we have no more clean air to breath, pure water to drink and uncontaminated food to eat. You got my point. We have to follow those solutions for pollution which are related to food, water and air because if we consume any of them contaminated it will directly, instantly and negatively impact our health resulting into various fatal diseases.

So let’s discuss the most relevant solutions for pollution which are within our reach and for their implementation we don’t have to appeal someone else.

Pollution control

Pollution control is usually taken as a responsibility of all. Of course it is the collectively responsibility of the all and sundry but in its literal sense it is a system. To make it an excellent system free from any loophole and idealistically smoother is the responsibility of all of us. How? Let me explain further.

Twin blades of the pollution control system

Pollution control is a system developed with the support of the legislative and the awareness mechanism. On the one side of it there are laws, rules, regulations and guidelines to set limit for every stakeholder including industry, hospital, civic agency, office, household, vehicle, ship etc to emit or release liquid, solid or gaseous pollution within the permissible limits. These limits are set by the environmentalist who put a red line at the quantity of each such stuff that can be emitted or released and its beyond that fixed level means polluting the environment.

Solid waste spoils our life

Solid waste spoils our life if it is not managed at source, destination or both. If it is not managed at the place where it is being generated like homes, offices, industries etc its pileup may directly affect our health by generating harmful bacteria in surrounding which may cause various infectious and even fatal diseases in people of vicinity and of course typhoid, malaria, dysentery and more alarmingly cholera are few of them.

Solid waste at source

If solid waste is not properly managed at the destination, the place where it is finally disposed off – it is technically called landfill site – it may hurt the environment more particularly of our land and its harmful effects may transmit with wind pressure and again can hit us through harmful bacteria and germs.

Moving solid waste

So we can say that solid waste may directly hit us if it is not properly handled even at the stage of its transportation from the source to destination – from our homes to designated landfill sites. During the process of its carriage if precautionary measures are not taken its collectors and carriers may be the first victims of its negative effects. After that the people in vehicles on the road where from solid waste crosses may shift some of its harmfulness to the commuters.

Marine pollution also hits our belly

I am not kidding, am serious. Marine pollution does hit our belly. Yeah you are right it disturbs our digestive system if we eat sea food mainly fish, prawns, shrimps and lobsters caught from the polluted salt water. Therefore, this type of pollution should not be treated simply as an issue of the fish folk. It is our issue because whatever type of pollution exists in this world, we the human beings have to suffer first and after that our fragile environment and the ecosystem receive hit.

What is marine pollution?

Marine pollution means any type of contamination in all types of slat water including that of sea and ocean owing to release of various types of solid, liquid and even gaseous matter from identifiable sources like civic waste, industrial effluent, oil spill from ships or unidentifiable sources like dust and plastic particles with the wind pressure etc.

Climate Change and Prostitution

Is there any nexus between the climate change and the prostitution? What the heck of this linkage! You might be thinking like this. But wait, wait a minute; there is indeed a direct relationship between both of them. Graver the climate change, higher the rate of conversion into sex workers; it does not happen happily but owing to certain compulsions. Let me make you recall some past memories.

Sex workers protest to green leaders

Four years back a mega conference was held in Copenhagen on the issue of the climate change. The mayor of the city restricted the hotels not to offer any sort of physical entertainment to the delegates of the conference. What was the end result? In extreme protest most of the Danish sex workers offered free service of sexual pleasure to all the delegates on the condition the hotel - where they were staying - just show the restriction order issued by the Copenhagen mayor to prove before the world they were debarred from earning their livelihood through the oldest profession of the world. Wasn’t it obstacle to the employment-based cultural heritage simultaneously? We all know that prostitution is one of the oldest professions of the world.

Atmospheric pollution and our kids

It was rightly said by someone that if you can’t give clean air to breathe to your kids, the fortunes and fortunes for them would be insufficient to make them happier and healthier. We in our whole life put our every effort to raise our standard of living and save a lot to leave for our kids but forget the bitter reality of leaving behind a more polluted world for our coming generation to keep ailing in it.

The atmospheric pollution is the main hurdle to let us breathe clean air because it does not leave a modicum of air free from pollutants. When various gases harmful for the consumption of human and other living beings exceed in quantity in ambient air it is called the atmospheric pollution. We can avoid several types of pollution by adopting different precautionary measures but we can’t keep ourselves safe from the polluted air because our very survival is almost impossible without the air – clean or polluted – we have to breathe.

Types of air pollutants

There are two types of air pollutants which contaminate the air. One is primary air pollutants comprising of sulphur dioxide (SOx), nitrogen oxide (NOx), carbon monoxide (CO) and carbon dioxide (CO2) which are generated as a result of any kind of combustion and mostly being emitted by vehicles and industries. Apart from them volatile organic compounds (VOCs), particulate matter, toxic metals particles, chlorofluorocarbons, ammonia and odour if found in the air more than the permissible limit will be quite harmful for both living beings and environment. All of these elements are called primary pollutants.

The secondary air pollutants are particulate matter formed from gaseous primary pollutants and compounds in photochemical smog, ground level ozone (O3) formed from NOx and VOCs, peroxyacetyl nitrate (PAN) - generated from NOx and VOCs and various minor pollutants mostly created from indoor pollution during the process of burning of fireplace and smoke emission during the cooking.

Causes of atmospheric pollution

Most of the atmospheric pollution is the result of the vehicular and industrial emissions if released in excess of prescribed limits as set under environmental quality standards. Every country has its own set of air quality standards but as we know the ambient air is not the property of any country nor has it any specific culture. Its immune system is also uniform across the world. Therefore, most of the air quality standards of every country of the world are same. Unfortunately many countries especially the poor ones have yet to develop their own air quality standards and still following those set by global organisations like World Health Organisation.

Effects of atmospheric pollution

When we relate the prevailing atmospheric pollution with our coming generations especially with our own kids our goose bumps raise up unintentionally. The harms of this menace which we keep on listening and watching on media are enough to tell how catastrophic it would further become if we don’t take action to control it immediately.

This is among few of those types of pollution which can easily migrate from one place to another. Air contaminants easily move with the wind to miles and miles because of their lighter weight and can become danger for those who actually are not responsible of their creation. Therefore, all the countries have to not only adopt measures at national level but also think globally to mitigate the contaminated air emissions to keep the air quality up to a breathable level.

How to control atmospheric pollution?

At least each country of the world has to take following actions to curb this menace from further expansion:

• Legislate to control air pollution, implement the green laws strictly and punish the air polluters without any discrimination
• During the whole process of air quality control, take on board all stakeholders especially industrialists and vehicles owners to develop in them a sense of ownership for the ambient air.
• “Air around us is our personal property” should be made a global slogan and may be publicised massively.
• Incentives must be offered in shape of easy financing and tax exemptions to those industries which keep emissions within the permissible limits.
• Above all enhance in our kids importance of air quality for our health so that when they become vehicle owners and industrialists in future government don’t have to apply laws over them as they will already be taking care of our air environment.