In recent decades, many environmental problems have increased as the
result of human activities and unplanned management of the technological
development those interference ecosystems. Therefore, a dispute between
the importance of conservation and preservation of ecosystems to
protect environment and the necessity to satisfy human desire by
sacrifice the environment has been arise across the world. According to
Glossary of Environment Statistics the term "environmental protection"
can be defined as the prevention to conserve and preserve the standard
healthy level of environmental media by reducing the production of
pollutants or polluting substances in environmental media (1997,
internet).Various human activities have induce many undesirable effects
to the environment which can be threatening human health, economic,
natural resources and gene pool of ecosystems such as pollutions,
greenhouse effect, global warming and soil erosion. In this essay, it is
arguable that the environmental protection is worth for fight due to
the several reasons. Firstly, the environmental pollution is one of the
main reasons why we should fight to protect environment. Besides, global
warming is also another reason caused by the deforestation.
Furthermore, warm climate change and flood also increase the opportunity
of spread out pests and vector diseases.
Pollution can be divided into four types; water pollution, air
pollution, thermal pollution and sound pollution. Fossils fuels used in
most factories, petroleum and gas usage for vehicle is the major cause
of air pollution. Environment pollution can also be an addition harmful
substance that could affect human health and human life (Gan, 2006,
311). Given the above, environmentalist should fight for a better
environment because pollutions caused by burning of fossil fuels will
results in severe environmental problems such as the occurrence of acid
rain due to the production of sulphur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen
monoxide (NO). Casiday and Frey mentioned that combustion process not
only increases the concentration of carbon dioxide(CO2) in the
atmosphere but it is also the main source in producing high level of
nitrogen monoxide(NO) and sulphur dioxide (SO2). These are the two major
reactants that cause the formation of acid rain. Acidity of acid rain
changes the pH of the river water and lakes which then disrupt the
nature habitat of aquatic organisms and reduce the chance of survival of
aquatic organisms, for example fishes cannot survive due to lack of
oxygen. In addition, the insoluble aluminum ions added to the water can
causes water to become poisonous which can also be known as water
pollution (1998, internet). For example, Norway has blamed that the sea
and lakes are poisoned by the formation of acid rain for many years due
to the unclean air pollution that comes from Britian's power stations
(Nova Science In The News, 1997, internet).
Since the global concentration of carbon dioxides have increased
given the reasons of combustion of fossil fuels and also human
activities such as deforestation. The reasons for deforestation are
usually resulted from cutting down the forests for lumber logging and
also for building a new farming for animal. Forest can also be known as
"carbon sink" because trees can be used as an absorber of carbon dioxide
in the environment and in returns release some oxygen to the
atmosphere. However, unplanned deforestation activities have
significantly reduced the concentration of oxygen (O2) and caused the
rise in temperature of the Earth. Christopher Monckton also emphasises
that every doubling the concentration of carbon dioxide in the
atmosphere is sufficient to rise the global surface temperature by 3.26
°C (2008, 3). Rise in global temperature will significantly caused ice
melting, for instance, according to the My Eco Project Organization, the
reports of ice melting at Arctic Retreat prepares in the late summer
2007 surprised the experts that every week, the Arctic sea ice is
continuously melting and the amount of melted ice can fill up to as
large as two Britain country (2009, internet). Meanwhile, the
consequence of ice melting at Arctic has increased the sea water levels.
According to the evidence gathered by Shepherd and his team, they found
that the sea water level has increased by 2.6% which has the same
volume with 49 microns per year spread across the oceans from over the
world due to the distinct value between the density and temperature of
ice and sea water (University Of Leeds, 2010, internet). In addition,
the polar bear will also face extinction in the future due to global
warming. Based on the report from National Geographic News, several
studies that have been conducted by the U.S. government has show that
melting of Arctic's ice that caused by the global warming will
endangered two-thirds of the world's polar bears and cause them to face
extinction by 2050 (Roach, 2007, 1). Given the above fact,
environmentalist should fight for a better environment and save our
earth. Furthermore, environmental protection should be implemented due to
warm climate changes and flood which heighten the risks of spread out
pests and vector diseases. Some infectious diseases such as malaria,
dengue, cholera and encephalitis can also spread out rapidly throughout
the whole area by mosquitoes, flies and other insects those usually
adapt to live in warm weather region. As World Health Organization notes
that contamination of water resources due to the occurrence of flood
enlarge the chances of getting water-borne diseases and also for
mosquitoes to carry disease around the environment (2010, internet).
Malaria and dengue fever have threaten the Southeast Asia and South
Pacific island due to the climate change as increases the population of
mosquitoes and migration of refugees (Allianz Knowledge
Partnership,2008.internet). Hence, it can be concluded that flood and
climate change will destroy our safety health environment. Moreover,
high temperature in the river will encourage the growth of algal broom
and causes the water pollution index to increases and decrease the
amount of oxygen supplied for the aquatic organisms. Since the river
water pollution increases dramatically, the level of biochemical oxygen
demand which known as BOD level also will increases. The higher the
biochemical oxygen demand level will result in the higher of the
pollution level. For instance, large amount of blue-green algae
devastate the nature of the universal solvent and threaten the public
health by releasing toxins into the water. Diseases and infection that
can cause by the algae's toxin are sore throats, gastro-enteritis and
skin or eye-infections
In conclusion, there are several factors described above that strongly
supported the argument to fight for environmental protection and create a
better environment. Some of the reasons include environmental air
pollution which increases the concentration of carbon dioxide that
caused the formation of acid rain. Another reason is one of the side
effects like global warming caused by the deforestation which increases
the global temperature caused the occurrence of ice melting. Moreover,
the global warming change the climate become warmer and flood encouraged
the growth of the pests and vectors like malaria and dengue fever to
spread the disease out to the environment which increases the level of
biochemical oxygen demand. Therefore, the environment should be
protected for a better life in future.
In recent decades, many environmental problems have increased as the
result of human activities and unplanned management of the technological
development those interference ecosystems. Therefore, a dispute between
the importance of conservation and preservation of ecosystems to
protect environment and the necessity to satisfy human desire by
sacrifice the environment has been arise across the world. According to
Glossary of Environment Statistics the term "environmental protection"
can be defined as the prevention to conserve and preserve the standard
healthy level of environmental media by reducing the production of
pollutants or polluting substances in environmental media (1997,
internet).Various human activities have induce many undesirable effects
to the environment which can be threatening human health, economic,
natural resources and gene pool of ecosystems such as pollutions,
greenhouse effect, global warming and soil erosion. In this essay, it is
arguable that the environmental protection is worth for fight due to
the several reasons. Firstly, the environmental pollution is one of the
main reasons why we should fight to protect environment. Besides, global
warming is also another reason caused by the deforestation.
Furthermore, warm climate change and flood also increase the opportunity
of spread out pests and vector diseases.
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