Environmental Rants!
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
nigel post :D
this is a poem that i came across while using the internet i think it quite cool
so ya i going to show to everyone :D and help spread the message around
We keep turning round and round
we keep on living on this ground
But listen up, here are the facts
will make us feel like dirty rats.
Nuclear plants and human sewage
industrial factories, construction debris
come together with deforestation
killing the land of you and me
Ever thought about your asthma
or why it got so complicated?
I guess cutting all those trees
got the air intoxicated.
Got dispersants in the water
use of pesticides on the land.
And still you wonder why it feels
clean breathing air is in demand
Now I’m living in a dumpster
and it’s all because of you
made a landfill of my shelter
smells like living in a shoe
You are also living in a dumpster
and it’s all because of me
never thought about your future
only thought about my needs.
Power plants, tobacco smoke
and never-ending gas emissions
Emergency visits to the ER
for all our wrong decisions.
We keep turning round and round
we keep on living on this ground
and we hope we feel much better
but keep polluting up and down
Now we are living in a dumpster
you can smell it in the air
you can taste it in the water
giving you that stomachache
Yes we are living in a dumpster
it’s our fault, we are to blame
what a pitiful disaster
human race is just so lame
i think it quite true as the earth belong to everyone and everyone have a part to play
if only everyone of us can help to save the earth abit by abit
everyone will have a better place to live in :D
tat the end of nigel post hope u will like it
going to post more next time
Everyone has a part to play.
keep the Earth clean.
4:07 AM
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Examples Of Land Pollution in other Countries besides Singapore.
The major causes of land pollution in India have to do with two of this great Asian country’s major characteristics, its population, and its rapidly developing economy.
Population
India is the second most populous country in the world with more than 1 billion people. This makes it four times larger than the U.S. and almost three quarters the size of China. Its huge, highly educated populous whose British colonial past also give it a distinctly Western style of government.
India’s population is also its greatest challenge, both politically and economically. With such a large population, the India government needs to maintain a steady pace of economic growth so it can maintain political stability.
This large population is also an environmental challenge for the world. The amount of farmland necessary to feed such a huge appetite and the amount of space to house such a huge number of people puts a great deal of strain on the agricultural sector. Many modern agricultural practices increase the yield of crops but increase the land pollution in India.
Indian’s Economic Expansion
Like China, India’s rapidly developing economy is also both a boon to the people and a challenge for the world. As the consumer appetite grows, the demands for feeding such an appetite.
Land pollution in Indian in India takes two main forms, soil erosion, and deforestation.
Soil Erosion
The near draught conditions in much of the country increase the difficulty of protecting agriculturally rich terrain. Because rainfall in these areas is small, scattered and tends to aid in erosion, moisture is one of the central problems leading to land pollution in India. The uneven ground, thin top soils, and strong winds add to these problems. The rainy season, from the late summer to early fall tends to wash away much of the healthy agricultural layer.
The wind also aids in expanding the ever-increasing desert conditions of the Rajasthan desert. Similarly, many ports are now covered in sand for the same reasons.
Deforestation
Although the British started deforestation in India, the pressures to modernize since the partition of 1947 have only increased the rates of deforestation. The mercurial growth of cities and the rapid construction of factories to help feed the thirst for economic growth have come at the cost of India’s woodlands. These policies not only harmed the trees but the indigenous peoples that had long thrived among the trees throughout India. Those cultures were all but destroyed, the former forest dwellers driven into towns and cities, strangers in their own country.
Connection between Land Use Policies and Other Environment Problems
Land pollution in India does not occur in a vacuum, of course. The management and mismanagement of agricultural lands in India affects other aspects of the India as well. The use of pesticides such as DDT in order to help maximize the crop output has created health difficulties not only for the final consumer, but also for those who live down river from the farms employing these harmful chemicals. Run off during the heavy rainy season has created higher incidences of birth defects, miscarriages, and mental retardation in children in the effected areas.
The need to maximize crop output in order both to maximize profit and to increase yield to match the food needs of growing population has only worsened the difficulties of India. This water contamination is occurring, furthermore, just as the need for drinking water is at its highest ebb.
All of this is furthermore occurring in a country the world can ill afford to have as an unstable ally. This is especially true since India has joined the nuclear club and has a cold war type relationship with its neighbor, Pakistan. The environmental and human cost of a nuclear exchange would be unthinkable.
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8:31 AM
Environmentally Challenged
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6:59 AM
Reality illusion
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6:58 AM
What age are we living right now ?
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6:55 AM
Who Consumes The Most ?
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6:51 AM
Land Pollution
Like home air pollution , land pollution is also a common problem worldwide. Land pollution is the direct result of the activities that humans engage in.
There are a number of major sources of land pollution, not counting the general litter and trash that people choose not the throw away in a proper receptacle. Among these major sources are burial sources, insecticides and pesticides, construction wastes, human waste, herbicides, and mining waste.
Poisons to the land are destructive from the instant they touch the ground and their pollutant spreads as it travels through the ground. Herbicides, pesticides, and insecticides are harmful to more than what they are designed to kill or deflect.
When used in large quantities these products can pollute groundwater drinking supplies as well as rivers and streams. Moreover, they pollute the ground and land surrounding the area they are used. While these products were originally produced to save the farmers’ crops, residential use is at an all time high and the land pollution effects are severe.
Burial is a very common methodology of surrendering the dead. Whether animal or human, the general digging process leads to erosion especially when the burials happen on plots within cemeteries. As bodies decompose there is a release of gases and fluids that are harmful to the ground, causing serious pollution problems for the surrounding land. It’s not unusual for the spread of disease caused by decomposition to trigger an investigation into the nearby burial grounds.
Construction waste is responsible for several types of land pollution. The soil dumping, which is often removed from a construction site and dumped into a nearby river or bay, interferes with the natural filtration process that is necessary to keep the waterways cleaner. On top of that, the oils, paints, and toxic chemicals which are often dumped or run off the construction site cause major land pollution problems as well as water pollution problems.
The acid that drains from mines it terrible for the surrounding environment. In the process of mining, gases are released from the ground and the composite chemicals are left to run through the wild habitats, killing off wildlife and aquatic life, both vegetation and animal. Mining has been a core industry of some areas for decades, and the urge to offer cleaner mining techniques is now so vital that refusing to do so could endanger entire states’ health prospects.
Human wastes include raw sewage as well as the regular the trash day deposit. It’s not unusual for third world countries to become the dumping ground for a percentage of trash that more powerful countries create. Raw sewage that seeps away from the treatment plant has the potential to spread disease and harm habitats. Recycling has improved in some areas, but even this process has been known to contribute to pollution problems.
The biggest problem that land pollution creates is the impact it has on the surrounding environments. Every form of land pollution kills off the habitats of land animals as well as aquatic life. The more we deplete these habitats the more the ecosystem is thrown out of balance.
Without a well balanced ecosystem, more animals die from overpopulation to under population. Aside from the moral issues associated with this, the survival of the ecosystem is vital to human survival. We depend on the ecosystem to provide more than merely the air we breathe, but to provide a wealth and richness that we thrive upon.
Land pollution is often visible, but there are many aspects of land pollution that remain unseen by the human eye. We can see deforestation, the effects of mining as the surrounding trees die off, and we can smell the effects on our shorelines and within our cities.
However, what we don’t see is the senseless suffering of the creatures that we are killing through our human actions. What we don’t see is the final death of a flower or the last of its kind. What we can’t see is the future impact that our actions are likely to have on our lives as well as the lives of the animals, fish, insects, and creatures that depend on the environment for their daily survival. Most often, we don’t see these things because we simply choose not to.
Done by: Lee Kai Hui (02) IT1A.
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keep the Earth clean.
6:08 AM