Tuesday 17 October 2017

Environmental Issues

This entry is about the different environmental issues that the world is experiencing currently.
It is undeniable that our environment is constantly changing because of different factors that have increased the environmental problems that affect tremendiusly th different ecosystems such as rivers, oceans, lands, forests, where different living things live and become endangered and in most of the cases, they become extinct as well.
Environmental issues can be classified  in two ways: The ones caused by the human beings and the others caused by the nature. So it is demanding to become inscreasingly aware of the issues that surround us. Now the big questions is : How to raise awareness in the humankind to reduce the environmental issues. Is it just a task that authorities need to be concerned about? or is it a task everybody has to tackle it?
Let's focus on one type of environmental issues:

Environmenntal issues caused by humanity.
Nowadays we know that humans are destroying the Earth in different ways. Using fossil fuels, polluting the environment with smoke of the cars, noise, water pollution. Let's start with campaigns , leaflets to inform people and raise their awareness putting into practice the four Rs: Respect, reduce, recycle and reuse.
Technology:
It is also true that our world has advanced a lot in technology, but at the same time it is causing serious damage to the Earth for not using it responsibly. Machines that require lots of energy consumption.
Computers used by people that demands hours to perform different tasks that also pollute the environment.

Threatened species: The destruction and pollution of the habitat of a certain animal is the main reason, sometimes this involves building houses, hunting, exploding some resources in the area, or destroying the area in order to make new roads, this increases the risk of death in the animals who live there.

Pollution: Pollution is one of the biggest problem among the environment since humans are the ones that contribute to it by throwing wastes of different kinds, causing the modification of the ecosystem unabling th habitats for the living things. It also affects  the food chains.
Pollution can be seen in laksr, land, rivers, oceans, factories do not care about harming the environment.
Something urgent must be done to stop this destruction to our environment. ONU and different green oraganizations should work together to reduce the negative effects.

Deforestation: It's the total destruction of rainforests in order to use the area and what's in it, for the human benefit.

Gobal Issues for the nature
Global Warming issues:

Global warming .-
It has become undoubtedly a fact about our current livelihoods; our planet is warming up and definitely, we are part of the problem. However, this isn’t the only environmental problem that we should be concerned about. All over the world, people are facing a wealth of new and challenging environmental problems every day. Some of them are small and only affect a few ecosystems, but others are drastically changing the landscape of what we already know.
Droughts:
It´s  the absence of water which causes the death of living things.
Floods: It's when an area that is usually dry, suddenly gets under water or submerged, and it has a lot of consequences because it basically drags everything that it's on the way, leading to material loss and also death.
Climate change: It happens by the increase of the temperature in the atmosphere leading to different consequences such as melting polar ice, rising sea levels, and also the variations  on thw weather.

VIDEO ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING

Pollution: Pollution of air, water and soil require millions of years to recoup. Industry and motor vehicle exhaust are the number one pollutants. Heavy metals, nitrates and plastic are toxins responsible for pollution. While water pollution is caused by oil spill, acid rain, urban runoff; air pollution is caused by various gases and toxins released by industries and factories and combustion of fossil fuels; soil pollution is majorly caused by industrial waste that deprives soil from essential nutrients.

In addition to this, we should also take into account the issues caused by the nature: natural disasters such floods, climate change, acid rain. They also are a consequence of the human actions.

To conclude, we should think that we have the solution in our hands and it is time to act to solve these environmental problems that are killing the humans and destroying the natural resources.
ACTIVITY TO RAISE AWARENESS
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