Facts About Pollution
There are several facts about pollution that people are unaware of. Pollution is a far more deadly disease than any other disease, it is a slow killer. Some facts about pollution that is good to know and spread.
- Pollution is a global killer affecting over a billion people around the world and with millions poisoned and killed every year. According to the report of The World Heath Organization, 25 percent of all deaths in the developing world are directly certified to environmental factors.
- Americans represent just 5% of the total world population but they consume 22% of the Oil, as a result of which the last 100 years have seen heat trapping gases increase by 22%.
- Plastics are the worst contaminators. While a plastic cup may take 50-80 years to decompose, a plastic milk jug may take 1 million years.
- Our everyday tasks contribute to over half the pollution. Ground litter may end up in storm drains, ditches and streams.
- Too much of Nitrogen to crops will leak into groundwater causing nutrient pollution in rivers and oceans leading to severe health problems to the humans who consume them. Groundwater, which is the potential drinking water for humans, has been found to contain 73 different kinds of pesticides.
- Dumped and untreated sewage is the biggest threat to human and wildlife health.
- Soap and dirt from car wash at home can end up in drains and ditches and finally in our streams untreated.
- Majority the trash dumped in the World’s ocean is plastic.
- By the year 2030, the present number of cars on the planet, 500 million is expected to double up to 1 billion.
- Some sources of pollution are a significant contributor to Global warming. While the solution to Global warming is vague and unknown, the solution to pollution is well known and available. All that is needed is sponsorship for resources and commitment.
- The developing countries of the world are the world’s most polluting countries. Many of the tactics like legal, political, cultural and economic disincentives for polluters that exist in developed countries do not work in developing countries that are only increasing industrialization making themselves economically competitive for manufacturing and processing.
- Pollution has far more adverse impact on Women and Children who are physiologically different and more vulnerable than Men. Though children only constitute 10 percent of the world’s population, over 40 percent of the global burden of disease descends on them. Approximately, more than three million children under the age of five die annually from environmental factors.
- People troubled with pollution problems are far more at risk to contracting other diseases.
- Nearly 4 tons of Carbon Dioxide is discharged annually into the air for every one of the 6 billion people on earth.
- The Immune and Endocrine system can be disrupted by a growing list of pesticides that have the long term impact on the future generations of exposed humans and animals both.
