Resumo de Pollution Is A Slow Poison, Slowly Kills The Generation

?Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he has been given. But up to now he hasn?t been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life has become extinct, the climate is ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.?
Above statement of Anton Chekov aptly describes how human beings are endangering their own livelihood by polluting the environment. They are living beyond their means and the present-day lifestyles are draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of the children and the coming generations.
?Pollution kills?, that all of us know because of examples like Gas tragedies, oil and chemical leaks, acid rains etc. But we unwittingly choose to ignore this knowledge, when it comes to preventing the air, water or land pollution in small doses that happens daily. These small, repetitive acts of ignorance culminate in causing major pollution hazards. Children even at the age of 4-5 years are suffering from diseases like asthama; coastal cities like Mumbai, Chennai, Port Blair are suffering the wrath of nature because mangrove cover and forests are dwindling fast; alarming increase in the number of land-slides, earth-quakes, hurricanes, cyclones are all Mother Nature?s ways of punishing the humankind for its excesses on the environment. No one else but we ourselves are to be blamed for making this pollution-poison that is not only making our lives miserable, but also putting the lives of our future generations at risk. Kahil Gibran beautifully comments on our predicament and this suicidal tendency when he says ?Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky. We fell them down and turn them into paper that we may record our emptiness.?
Environment surrounding us is like the life-support system that Mother Nature provides us with. Through our actions, we are gradually destroying this system by creating imbalance in the various constituents of environment though pollution. The earth is the only known living planet, with its biosphere supporting and sustaining life on it. Without the life-supporting environment, earth would be as dead and lifeless as other planets. So when we pollute this environment, we must know what we are putting at risk. The constituents of environment are the very ingredients of our life and therefore should be kept live, vibrant, rich and healthy. There cannot be any development and progress in true sense, by creating an imbalance in nature.
?Green house effect? is one glaring example that proves beyond doubt that pollution acts as a slow poison, by adversely affecting the earth?s environment and endangering lives. This is the name given to the ever thickening blanket of carbon emissions, which has already caused the warming up of the earth?s atmosphere from ?0.30 C in 1870 to +0.30 C. This has resulted in 30 per cent more CO2 in the atmosphere today than 200 years ago. This poisoning of environment is still going on by way of indiscriminate use of fossil fuels and vehicular pollution. This causes bronchitis and other respiratory diseases. A WHO study pointed out that increasing carbon emission has helped many tropical diseases like malaria, dengue and cholera to assume serious dimensions. It also worsens the problem of malnutrition and water-scarcity, and causes droughts and famines by adversely affecting the rainfall pattern. The increase in earth?s temperature has resulted in dwindling of food grain production, shrinking of forest cover and extinction of many plant and animal species. This constant rise in temperature makes oceans release more energy into the atmosphere, leading to more violent storms and cyclones.
Our water resources have become murky and polluted with industrial and human waste and effluents. The toxic chemicals, industrial wastes discharged into rivers and seas from mills and factories have proved fatal to all kinds of marine life. And as they say, in nature?s way of things viz. Ecology, everything is linked to another. People often fall ill by eating these polluted fishes and they are often poisoned by industrial wastes dumped into the natural sources of water. Pesticides in soft drinks, polluted mineral water, avian flu and a lot of such occurrences are direct results of disturbing the balance of nature.
The indiscriminate use of DDT, BHC etc have damaged the soil by weakening the micro-organisms. These pesticides ultimately contaminate fruits, vegetables, cereals and dairy products. The neuro-toxins reach the human body through various food-items and severely impair the central nervous system and cause other disorders. The milder forms of pesticide poisoning results in migraine, dizziness, stomach-ache, abdominal cramps and diarrhoea. Insecticides like carbofuran are used to quicken fruiting. Parathion is used to give fruits and vegetables a fresh look. Bananas, grapes, apples etc. are sprayed with harmful ripening agents, fungicides and pesticides. All this pollution is acting as a slow poison. If not killing the generations instantly, it is definitely crippling them and making their lives worse than death.

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