Pollution and Its Effects : The whole environment dirty by polluting the air, water, and land.
The nation has started to the consequences of pollution and before the man realises it, the world as we know it would have been changed. Terms like social distancing, cleanliness and hygiene have become a household word in the past few months, all thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic that has gripped the entire world. In this year alone we have seen earthquakes in certain parts of India, the pandemic that started from China, the forest fires in Australia, the volcanic eruptions in parts of New Zealand and many more catastrophic events that are trying to send out a message to humankind. In the last 60 years, the world has seen exponential economic growth and the cost of this economic growth is borne by the natural resources of the world.
The health of the economic engine that our leaders are worried about has conveniently forgotten the kind of negative impact that we are having on our environment because of this economic growth. From air pollution and water pollution to soil pollution and land pollution, we have not spared any aspect of our ecosystem from getting polluted. It can be said without an ounce of doubt that the greed of man and the hunger to make money has resulted in the events that we are witnessing in the year 2020.
In this pollution and its effects essay, I shall be talking about the effects that we are seeing in the year 2020 alone and how this effect can be traced back to the pollution that has been happening in the last 60 to 70 years in the world.
Australian Forest Fire
The Australian forest for that we witnessed in the month of January in the year 2020 was not something that happened all of a sudden. It was the effect of air pollution and global warming that has been gradually happening in the world in the last hundred years because of rapid industrialization and urbanization. Accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere has resulted in an increase in the average temperature of the earth as a result of which many wildlife has been wiped out of the face of the planet. To fill the growing population, forest lands are being converted into agricultural lands and many forests have been converted into cities as a result of which the oxygen content in the atmosphere is being reduced. An amalgamation of all these effects was what the world witnessed in the Australian forest fires at the start of the Year.
Cyclone Amphan and Nisarga
Recently we witnessed one of the worst cyclonic storms which hit the east coast and the west coast of India. The cyclones created massive havoc across the states of West Bengal, Orissa, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Maharashtra, Karnataka and Gujarat. Thousands of people were killed, lack of people displaced from their homes and properties worth of billions of dollars were damaged. Such cyclonic events and storms are a result of constant climate change and global warming around the world. The carbon footprint from each country has been increasing every year as a result of which the ocean currents on the planet have taken a different route leading to such floods, storms and earthquakes.
I would like to conclude by saying that the above two examples are a very minute example of the effects of pollution on our planet. If governments, citizens and the international community do not come forward to find long-lasting solutions to the problem of pollution, then it won’t be too long before the entire human race to be wiped out from the face of the planet because humans are no match to the force of nature.
