With gold mining, nuclear waste, and contaminated ground water; coupled with uranium mining, acid rain and growing garbage heaps around the world, what will be the result when they all connect. Further to this, there have been numerous disasters in various parts of the globe, earthquakes, floods and oil spills and they are all affecting air, land and sea. Is the world really prepared for and outbreak? In addition to all this, add the nuclear weaponry testing that is taking place in certain parts of the world. Pollution affects the entire environment – air, land and sea.
The Sea
Is marine life safe? The millions of life forms below the sea each have their function and provide a delicate balance necessary for every one of them to exist.
Is fish safe for human consumption? Most of the smaller nations don’t have the high technology equipment to test for poisonous substances in the fish they cash and some of the fishes caught go directly from the nets to the household tables!
Cancers and unknown illnesses are going to come from consumption of contaminated sea food. What about skin cancers and other skin related diseases. Furthermore, every person who enters the sea directly ingests some of its water. What about internal problems?
The Land
The issues that arise concerning land will undoubtedly affect our drinking water, ground water and the entire agricultural sector. Our livestock will be affected and human life in general because we all live on land.
Further to this, if human beings consume the meat from livestock and they are infected because of the water they drink, human beings will contract the diseases as well, and it may even worsen in humans.
The Air
Polluted air will cause serious respiratory diseases, skin diseases, diseases affecting the eyes and ear infections. The lungs will be most affected by these problems.
Solutions
All the nations need to come together and invest heavily in Environment-Friendly Activities because pollution will be the greatest threat ahead. There has to be monitoring and testing done in all countries to see what each nation’s greatest threat is and how to alleviate it.
There needs to be major national clean-ups globally and the First world nations must necessarily invest in smaller countries, because all nations are connected environmentally.
A major storage of vaccines, respiratory masks, respiratory medications, eye-drops and medication, sanitizers, water purification tablets and machinery and garbage collection receptacles must take place.
More tanks need to be built to cultivate fresh fish in order to sustain good health.
There needs to be more solar powered cars or vehicles that use an alternative to petrol.
Give more training in school on dealing with environmental issues and hazards. Protect and secure the water catchment areas and tanks.
