If there's one knowledge we've had, even as kids－thankfully to basic education knowledge－is that there's a thing as pollution; land, water and air. It's been a long-standing knowledge, one that still exists in the curriculum I believe. However, how much has that knowledge been applied, or helpful to us as an awareness, not just a thing to know and then pass exams? Sadly, not many consider or see it as such.
Pollution has been an overdue menace, an issue that requires all hands on deck to address. But then, you get to wonder how much effort the environmental bodies put into seeing that this problem is properly approached and curtailed for a better environment. Our environment is a factor in the level of our productivity.
An environment or a place could become unhabitable for a person, or even an organism due to pollution, especially when it's at a peak level. The effects of pollution are wide-ranging and diverse. When you consider the different ways pollution presents itself－land, water and air－you could find a common resultant effect and possible diverging ones as well. All because there was one thing or another that led to the contamination of the environment－pollutants.
The ultimate and common effect of the different forms of pollution is what it poses on human health. To an extent, mortality even. Sad truth, however, hidden in a level of naivety, or perhaps nonchalance rather. Many diseases that possibly got into our system were due to some form of pollutants, poured into our environment, be it on the land, in the water or in the air. And we're left to suffer with it at the end.
The atmosphere is also harmed by these actions of the pollutants poured into our environment. This is the reason why sustainability is encouraged today, becoming a thing more and more as the days go by. Not many subscribe to it though, particularly those who are into industrial productions that release high levels of hazardous gases into the atmosphere, harming the air we breathe and depleting the ozone layer as well.
Other effects could be ones such as those posed on the aquatic living organisms. It's disheartening to see that today people still pour dirt into rivers and streams. The lives of the organisms are at stake in these actions. And have you passed by a place where there's a polluted body of water? It could feel like your stomach was turning within, just a total sense of restlessness within your body system. How about passing by a place polluted with human or animal faeces? I guess we know the effect.
I've seen places polluted and experienced the different forms of pollution. With such experience and few studies, I can vividly say that the air pollution could be worse. The land pollution can be restricted to an area, and the water pollution as well, to an extent. However, the air could seem to be unrestricted. I mean, this is gas and it flows with the air, something we desperately need for survival and is everywhere. That should make it the worst of them.
In any case, pollution shouldn't be a thing around us or anywhere in our world today. Perhaps, it can't be totally eradicated, for some reason. This could be a case with some places and people. But I guess it can be brought to the minimum right? Especially when we put our hands together, and the environmental bodies do their part, as well as a proper orientation to our actions and the effects of this menace.
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