How Environment Affects Health, Life and Livelihoods.
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Chapter 1 . Nature Gave Mankind A Safe Environment.
It provides humanity with - Clean air, water, land and clean environment. Nature expects mankind to keep the environment clean and safe at all times. Unfortunately, mankind have been involved in and still involving in activities that are detrimental to the environment, making it unsafe for all.
Chapter 2. How Mankind Failed To Sustain a Safe Human Environment.
There are two aspects to this:
a. Destruction of the environment by individuals.
b. Destruction of the environment by companies.
a. Destruction of the environment by individuals.
Individuals pollute the environment through - wrong ways of disposing waste materials, excessive use of single-use plastics, making use of domestic chemicals, blocking of waterways, soil contamination and driving when not really necessary. Getting involved in these activities on daily basis, collectively add up to global greenhouse gas emissions.
b. Destruction of the environment by companies.
Oil companies, Chemical manufacturing companies and Nuclear Power Plants have all contributed to the destruction of the environment.
Examples:- Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant explosion 26/04/1986.
Shell and their gross degradation of the Niger Delta environment, Nigeria, affecting the indigenes negatively.
Bhopal disaster - Chemical Plant leaks, caused by Union Carbide India Limited.
Amazon forests destruction.
Chapter 3. Consequences of Human Destruction of the Environment.
- How it caused health challenges, destroyed life and livelihoods.
- How it contributes to global warming/climate change and biodiversity loss.
Chapter 4. Organisations That Are Involved In Protecting The Earth & The Roles They Play
Friends of The Earth
Greenpeace
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Chapter 5. Protecting The Environment Is The Responsibility of All.
This could be done in various ways:
-Governments through Acts of Parliament.
-Becoming an activist of environmental protection organisations against corporate polluters.
-Supporting environmental protection organisations through donations.
-Supporting environmental protection organisations through signing of their petitions on specific issues.
-Contact your Member of Parliament (MP) to table a motion on bill protecting the environment or support any which is already on the floor.
-Stop disposing waste materials carelessly, follow instructions on public bins.
-Avoid driving of vehicles when it's not really necessary.
-Avoid excessive use of single use plastics.
-Avoid dumping of plastic materials into waterways.
-Minimise the use of domestic chemicals.
-Teach your children the importance of environmental awareness and protection.
-UN is to ensure that nations comply with Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) guidelines.
-Avoidance of unnecessary deforestation.
We should always be conscious of the fact that health is wealth and that unsafe environment has negative impact on health.
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