Pollution

Types of Pollution:

• Air pollution: Us humens pollute the air and the environment by our factories, by speding chemicals, particular matter, or biological matters. Many birds and animals have died from air pollution (even humens).
• Land pollution: Is the degration of the earth's land surfaces often caused by humans activity. Haphazard disposal of urban and industrial wastes, exploition of minerals and improper use of soil are the main cause of this pollition.
• Water polution: The contamination of water bodies such as lakes, seas, rivers, oceans and groundwater, aslo, caused by human activity. This could be harmful to animals, fish, or plants that live underwater. Even us humans could get harmed from this by eating a harmful fish animal.
  

Quick Facts:

Water:

• 40% of rivers are too polluted for fishing, swimming, or aquatic life!
• 46% of lakes are too polluted for fishing, swimming, or aquatic life!
• Asian rivers are the most polluted in the world! They have 3 times as much bacterias as from the human waste as the global avarege and 20 times more lead than rivers!
• Slovakia has the lowest compliance with EU guidelines for freshwater areas, with only 22.4% of bathing sites meeting the standards!
• Thirty percent of Ireland's rivers are polluted with sewage or fertilizer!
• Pollution of freshwater (drinking water) is a problem for about half of the world's population. Each year there are about 250 million cases of water-related diseases, with roughly 5 to 10 million deaths.!
• Each year, plastic waste in water and coastal areas kills up to: 100,000 marine mammals, 1 million sea birds, and countless fish!

Land:

• The World Bank reported in 2002 that pollution causes 2.42 billion dollars worth of damage to the Egyptian environment annually - equaling about 5 percent of the country’s annual gross domestic product!
• A recent study from Toronto Public Health estimates over 440 deaths a year in the Canadian city can be directly attributed to traffic emissions!

Air:

• During winter months, 49 percent of soot and other particle pollution in Sacramento is caused by burning wood in fireplaces and wood stoves!
• According to the World Health Organization, if you are one of the 18 million residents of Cairo: Breathing daily air pollution is like smoking 20 cigarettes a dayand you take in over 20 times the acceptable level of air pollution each day!
• The risk of cancer from breathing diesel exhaust is about ten times more than ingesting all other toxic air pollutants combined, with diesel emissions contributing to over 70% of the cancer risk from air pollution in the USA! – reported by Environmental Defense.
• According to the US-EPA, emissions from power plants contribute to over 2,800 lung cancer deaths and 38,200 heart attacks annually in the US!

Solution:

10 things YOU could do to make our lives more healthy:-

1. Use cast iron pans instead of nonstick. Read about Teflon health concerns.
2. To avoid chemicals leaching into food, go easy on processed, canned or fast foods and never microwave plastic. Read about Bisphenol A, a toxic food-can lining ingredient associated with birth defects.
3. Buy organic, or eat vegetables and fruit from the "Cleanest 12" list. Find out more about the "Dirty Dozen."
4. Use iodized salt to combat chemical interference from the thyroid. Read about rocket fuel's effect on the thyroid.
5. Seal outdoor wooden structures. Order a test kit to find out if your wooden deck, picnic table, or playset is leaching arsenic.
6. Leave your shoes at the door. This cuts down on dust-bound pollutants in the home.
7. Avoid perfume, cologne and products with added fragrance. Search for personal care products that are fragrance-free, or check the products you're already using.
8. Buy products with natural fibers, like cotton and wool, that are naturally fire resistant. Use our list of products and manufacturers to avoid the chemical flame retardant PBDE.
9. Eat low-mercury fish like tilapia & pollock, rather than high-mercury choices like tuna & swordfish. Check our Safe Fish List to see which fish to avoid and what's safe to eat.
10. Filter your water for drinking and cooking. How does your tap water stack up? Search our tap water database to see what you're drinking.

Look after our home...

Re: World Hunger

This post is connected to my older post about world hunger. In this post i would just like to talk about a photo taken in 1994 by photographer Kevin Carter. This "Pulitzer Prize" winning photo picture took place during the Sudan Famine, just a kilometer away from the United Nations camp. As the child tries to crawl its way to UN camp for food and shelter, the vulture in the behind waits the kid to give out its last breath to eat it! The photographer died 3 month later due to depression...

Yes! This is our world!

World Hunger

Main parts with world hunger

We all heard a lot about world hunger, but did we really HEAR about world hunger. I'm asking you people to open your ears wider and give an effort to JUST know a little bit more about this cause.





Quick Facts:

• 800 million people are living in what the world bank call "absolute poverty"!
• 15 million children die every year from starvation!
• For the price of one missile, a school full of hungry children can eat for 5 years!
• 3 million people in the world today struggle to live up on $2 per day!
• In USA: 1 out of 8 children goes to bed "hungry" every night!
• Every 3.6 seconds, someone die of hunger!
• So if you are a fast reader, 8 persons have died from hunger since you started to read these facts.

Solution:

• Since 1997 alone, thanks to many noble people that are volunteering to help the hungry and donate, the vitamin A supplement programme has saved around 300,000 young children. Today even more. World hunger can be solved. Don't think that our world doesn't have enough money or food to feed, there is plenty and even more for all of us. The world agriculture produces 17% more calories per person today than it used to 30 years ago, despite the 70% population increase. Which is enough to provide at least 2,700 calories per person daily - A person needs an average of 2,000 calories daily (depending on the type of body). So there is a solution, and this is not a hopeless cause.Please spread the word around. E-mail this cause to a friend for more awareness about this subject.

• If you are willing to help and donate, please don't hesitate, and click on the donate button below.

Talking Images:

New Subject...

Our semester is almost to an end, and Mr. Auge has given us the opportunity to post about whatever subject we desire... So, I will try to use the last posts of this blog for a noble cause and to spread awareness among our readers. I believe that because most of our readers are from our class, which are majored in mass communication, hopefully will get great benefit from my upcoming posts in an educational manner and also in a humanitarian side as well.

Spreading

Awareness

Peace

Compassion

"Hand in hand, together we stand"