Ecological resources include various components of the environment that create balance in nature. These include: land, people, air, flora and fauna, geological formations and much more. In general, it can be argued that environmental resources are divided into 3 large groups: organisms, substances and their binding energy.
In the modern world, there is no balance between environmental components, which is why man-made disasters, natural disasters, and health problems among the world's population are observed. What is currently the most threatening earth?
Air pollution
Air is the basis of the life of any person: it contains oxygen, which is vital for breathing, and it also gets carbon dioxide from the lungs, which plants process.
Unfortunately, most of the waste from the operation of factories, machines, and household appliances comes into the air. Atmospheric pollution is a planetary environmental problem.
Due to the fact that there are substances that are not characteristic of it in the air, the ozone layer in the upper atmosphere is destroyed. This leads to strong ultraviolet radiation, which leads to an increase in temperature on the planet.
In addition, an excess of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere increases the greenhouse effect, which also contributes to an increase in temperature, the melting of glaciers, and the drying out of previously fertile soils.
In many cities, the content of harmful substances in the air is exceeded, so the number of patients with cancer, respiratory tract and heart diseases is increasing. Only by safeguarding an ecological resource can we mitigate dangerous influences.
All participants in polluting industries should take measures to install treatment facilities and traps of harmful substances. The scientific community must join forces to find alternative energy sources that will not pollute the atmosphere when burned. Even an ordinary citizen can contribute to air protection by simply transferring from a car to a bicycle.
Noise pollution
Each city is a whole mechanism that does not stop for a minute. Every day, there are thousands of cars on the roads, hundreds of factories and dozens of construction sites work. Noise is an inevitable ally of any human activity, and in a metropolis it turns into a real enemy.
Scientists have proved that constant noise affects the psychological state of a person, his hearing organs and even his heart, sleep is disturbed, depression occurs. Children and senior citizens are particularly affected.
It is very difficult to reduce the noise level, because it is impossible to block all roads and close factories, however, it is possible to reduce its impact on humans, for this it is necessary:
- Personal protective equipment for workers in hazardous industries.
- Green spaces around the sources of noise. Trees will take noise vibrations on themselves, thereby saving residents of nearby houses.
- Proper development of the city, which excludes the passage of busy avenues near residential buildings. Sleeping rooms should face opposite sides of the road.
Light pollution
Many do not even realize that light is a source of pollution, if it is of anthropogenic origin.
Thousands of lighting devices work in the cities, which are installed for the convenience of movement at night, but doctors have been sounding the alarm for a long time, because due to the fact that it is almost round-the-clock light in the towns, people's health is undermined, and the animal world is suffering.
It has long been known that humans live by biological rhythms. The change of day and night is the main lever for controlling the internal clock, but due to constant lighting, the body begins to get confused when to go to bed, when to get up. The mode of rest is violated, diseases grow, and nervous breakdowns appear.
What can we say about animals that, being guided by the light of cities, go astray, die, breaking into buildings.
Light pollution is one of the world's environmental problems, and the ways to solve them in different cities can be different: the introduction of curfews without light, the use of street lamps with caps that will allow you not to scatter light in vain, the light-saving mode in buildings and just turning off the lights where it is used solely for the sake of beauty.
Nuclear pollution
Radioactive fuel is the good and evil of mankind. On the one hand, the use is great, on the other hand, there are catastrophically many victims of it.
Radiation pollution is present naturally from metallic rocks in the soil, as well as from the very core of the planet. But everything that goes beyond the permissible limits causes extraordinary harm to nature. Gene mutations, radiation sickness, soil contamination are the consequences of the interaction of humans and radioactive substances.
Preservation of ecological natural resources and man himself will be possible only when atomic weapons are not used and tested, and radiation waste from production facilities is disposed of in even safer storage facilities.
Global warming
Climate change has long been regarded as an independent environmental problem. The consequences of human activity are simply terrifying: the glaciers melt, the oceans are warming, and the water level rises in them, new diseases appear, animals move to other latitudes, desertification occurs and fertile lands disappear.
The reason for this effect is human activity, as a result of which emissions appear, forests are cut down, water is polluted, and urban areas are increasing.
Solution:
- The use of new technologies that conserve environmental resources.
- Increase in the area of green spaces.
- Search for innovative solutions to remove harmful substances from air, soil and water.
So, for example, now scientists are developing a technology for capturing and storing carbon dioxide underground.
MSW landfills
The further a person develops, the more he uses ready-made consumer goods. Tons of labels, packages, boxes, used equipment are exported daily from settlements, and every day the amount of waste only grows.
Disastrously huge areas are now involved in landfills for household waste . Some are even visible from space. Scientists are sounding the alarm: pollution of soil, air, and land in garbage storage sites greatly affects the environment, all components of nature, including humans, suffer.
This can only be defeated by the introduction of recycling technologies everywhere, as well as by ensuring the transition to rapidly decomposable packaging material.
In order for future generations to live in a safe world, it is necessary to think about serious environmental problems for all and ways to solve them. Only by combining the efforts of all countries can we reverse the catastrophic situation in ecology. Unfortunately, many states are not ready to sacrifice economic benefits for the sake of their children and grandchildren.