Effects on Health from Pollution

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While global pollution is caused by both natural and man-made sources, man-made pollution seems to be a massive source threatening a human body. For instance, such pollution is associated with various human activities such as transportation, industrial production, agriculture, construction, etc. It is the fact that the rate at which the effects of pollution are significantly increasing over the last few decades is quite alarming, so people need to take serious action to solve this problem. In addition, everyone is exposed to several accumulated pollutants in a body which is associated with numerous effects on human health. Infants, children, pregnant woman and elderly are the high risk group who suffers from pollution. Therefore, health effects from pollution are still a major problem in society. Many well-known diseases for instant, high blood pressure, respiratory diseases, cardiovascular diseases, lung cancer, throat inflammation, chest pain, and nasal congestion results from pollution. Air pollution is one of the main problems in the world due to being the most widespread form of pollution and its effects are also quite severe. Most of air pollution is emitted by industrial plants by burning fuels. Human transportation also plays a major role in releasing tons of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere every day. Furthermore, agricultural activities such as burning of natural vegetation for clearing land also contribute a considerable extent of pollution. The adverse impacts from air pollution not only affect to the human body but also bring about global warming and acid rain. Consequently, such type of rain affects the quality of soil because the chemicals come down render the soil to be useless for plant growth. The study from U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, “Air Pollution Control Orientation Course”, n.d. states that hazardous air pollutants or air toxics

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