The Effects Of Pollution On The Life On Earth

By Author: Mark Bennett
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Pollution has become one of the most difficult environmental battles that we are losing today. Millions of wildlife and human life is getting extinct and dying because of this battle that was started by us hundreds of years ago. Till now we are sitting with the least anticipation that this is just a passing phase and can be easily overcome.

This battle takes various forms such as air, water, land and noise pollution. Each of them is unique and difficult to comprehend. Humans have been trying for many years to curb the effects of pollution, but it is still increasing. It will be hard for you to imagine what the effects of pollution will have on our natural resources. These natural resources are getting depleted at a faster rate that time has come for us to start using other man-made alternative natural resources. You can say artificial resources that are made by humans.

Today the world is undergoing both economic and environmental transitions. The economic transition targets moving ahead of time by inventing advanced technologies. Whereas environmental transition targets on reaching the early centuries' stage where ...
... there existed zero pollution. The quest of the present world to gift pollution free environment though sounds good, needs a lot of time and effort. Our aim to sustain in the polluted free environment can be sustained only if we are able to protect the present environment from running down further.

Pollution has a drastic effect on the environment and people. The major effect of this pollution is on health of mankind and plays a key role in reducing the lifespan. Taking an action against environmental pollution is very important, if not we will lose the natural resources and just tend to exist on the artificial technology in the near future.

Most of us ignore the effects of pollution on the environment and tend to live in our own way or sit on the inbuilt misconceptions that environmental protection is very difficult to handle. When you come to know that it is just very simple as a phone call or browsing the web using the Time Warner Internet; any socially responsible citizen of the country cannot resist from taking action against environmental pollution.

Frankly, thinking that it is a tedious and challenging task is the first mistake that we make. We need to respect and utilize the resources given by Mother Nature. These resources are the lifeline for our survival and without which we cannot exist. Now the question that could come to your mind is what are the ways to protect the environment.

Every industrial boom in the history has provided a legacy of environmental damage that takes generations to repair. This legacy has resulted in providing various diseases like asthma, lung cancer, and other respiratory disorders. Not only diseases, but also has started to diminish our natural resources. Establishing factories near cities and towns have led to air pollution which has resulted in innumerable diseases. The saddest part is that due to these diseases, many children are dying and their numbers are increasing.

Many of us are aware of the various methods of reducing this pollution and to an extent of disappearing it from the face of the Earth. Some of the methods are planting more trees, conservative use of water and other resources, and moving factories from cities and residential areas. Also you could conserve fuel such as gasoline and use other consumable source of energy like electric or solar energy. Besides all these things we must live environmentally conscious by using recyclable and reusable items in our daily life.

Mark is a freelance writer. He writes articles on various social issues such as environment, endangered species, etc. Being a sport and comedy fanatic, he spends the majority of his time in watching his favorite sports matches and surfing the web using his