Article writing on environmental problems
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It is needless to repeat that environmental pollution has degraded and spread its poisonous tentacles in the very basic human needs – food, water, air, soil – inhaling, eating, drinking damages or has ill-effects on human and animal health. Gaseous emissions from industries, motor vehicle combustions and burning fossil fuels into air; oil spills, solid industrial waste, city garbage, plastic dumps find their way into water; similarly vegetable waste and inorganic methods of farming denudes the soil depriving it of its fertility. Since soil is the source of food, water is for drinking and air is meant for breathing; all three polluted elements inject their toxins into human body and incur diseases in it.
The diseases can include any of these – Asthma, Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, Skin cancer, Lung cancer, Cardiovascular diseases and Stroke, Lead poisoning, Mercury poisoning, Radiation augmented cancers, Allergies, Birth defects, Lung diseases due to occupational exposure to various toxins; the list is endless.
Conclusion
We are all regressing towards an unhealthy future for every living creature not only humans beings. The signals of depleting health are loud and clear – pollution – in air we breathe, water we drink and use for various purposes and inorganic food we process and eat.
Answer:
India’s environmental problems are due to the negative effects of the process of development that is poverty and underdevelopment. Poorly planned development projects cause damage to the environment, associated with plans for rapid economic growth and development. The second group is related with the impact on health, land, soils, water, forests, wildlife as a result of poverty.
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The greatest challenge is the rapid growth of population. Population, poverty and environment are inter-related. The nexus between poverty and environmental degradation is a major issue as vast majority of people depends on the natural resources of country for their basic needs. About 40 per cent are below poverty line.
The environmental degration has adversely affected the poor who depend upon natural resources. Henceforth, both poverty and environmental degradation are two facets of same challenge and it is widely recognised that population growth is a function of poverty.
The mountainous terrains of the Himalayas and North East States are rapidly losing their forests and trees, which in turn enhances the removal of top soils and results in landslides and floods.