Industrial Chemicals And Environmental Education

Industrial Chemicals And Environmental Education Water Pollution

Just because the production of a given pollutant is halted due to environmental or health concerns doesn’t mean that it’s going anywhere, any time soon. Consider DDT. The production of this pesticide and highly reactive toxin is still being found in soils and groundwater, decades after it was in use . In fact, the breakdown chemical DDE can still be found in very high levels in the bodies of people and animals who were exposed many years previously and in the groundwater supplies.

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These chemicals persist for several reasons. For starters, they bind fatty tissues, or lipids, that animals use to store energy for later use. Fat cells are not created or destroyed over the life of an organism – they simply fill up or shrink down. Also, many of the original or breakdown chemicals remain in the soils. They remain tightly bound to soil particles and minerals until something “knocks” them loose.

There are any number of causes and any number of “villains” to blame. Environmental degradation and pollution is a common culprit. Simple Darwinism is another. Over hunting is yet another. Whatever the cause, however, the result is the same. A population of animals vanishes forever with no possibility of being encountered again.The story of environmental pollution and degradation has been, throughout human history.

Insect species go extinct every day along with Animal populations, with their birth rate and ever-changing environment, whole families and subfamilies and variant species vanish forever.

Recently the aerial spraying of a pesticide has come under fire in northern California. The pest is called LABM(light brown apple moth). The moth causes extensive damage to food crops, trees and ornamentals. An environmental group has filed a lawsuit calling for a halt to the spraying claiming the EPA failed to conduct safety tests on the pesticides sprayed. Hundreds of people reported respiratory injuries. The following days after the spraying occurred residents of Santa Cruz, California were finding dead or dying birds along the beaches. It is believed that the pesticide strips away the natural oils from their feathers causing them to die from the cold or drown.

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We may stop and think of the seriousness of water pollution when we find out about a major sewage spill, but our everyday actions may be contributing to this pollution issue. Poor septic tanks and phosphate cleaning agents are contributors too.

Everyone contributes to air pollution. It’s hard not to because every action has a reaction and that reaction releases chemicals. Due to bad press and major fines, some companies have gotten better at monitoring their output. Car manufacturers include emission systems, but we use our cars at record-breaking levels. With the new U.S. administration indicating that there will be a different environmental policy we will see a change for the better. It will come down to the balance of good air produced by Mother Nature to bad air produced by human usage.

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