Climate issues of the world adam sbragia
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China faces severe environmental crises due to its extensive coal burning, water pollution, loss of forests, and desertification. Over half of China's surface water and about 90% of underground water used for farming is polluted. Nearly a quarter of China's land is desertified. The existence of "cancer villages" where pollution has caused high cancer rates has also drawn attention, with the government now acknowledging the link between pollution and health issues. While challenges remain, there are some signs the public is demanding more control over environmental protection.
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Environment Safety and Health shota.pdf
Pollution is one of the major global problems impacting human health and the environment. Air pollution in particular shortens life expectancy, with children in South Asia expected to have their lives cut by 30 months on average due to outdoor and indoor air pollution. Despite reforms, China has the highest mortality rate from air pollution, responsible for over 850,000 deaths in 2017. Water pollution is also a widespread problem, with 80% of wastewater dumped untreated into the environment. This pollution jeopardizes human health, and without action water challenges will increase as demand rises 33% by 2050.
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1) Pollution levels vary depending on a country's level of economic development - early industrialization leads to high pollution from primary industries like mining and manufacturing, while more developed economies experience less pollution as these industries move overseas.
2) Air pollution in particular poses significant health risks like increased respiratory diseases, with the young, elderly, and those with preexisting conditions being most vulnerable.
3) Many cities in China face extremely high pollution levels linked to coal burning that have caused widespread health issues like cancer among local populations.
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Particulate matter in air pollution sticks to human lungs and organs, damaging health over decades of exposure. A Chinese expert notes that some people's lungs now turn black in their 40s due to particulate pollution. While industrial activity accounts for a small percentage of Australia's emissions, those levels increased by over 13% according to a national report. Unusual climate events last year reduced Australia's electricity demand and increased hydroelectric power, leading to a decline in emissions from that sector and agriculture as well.
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This document discusses several types and effects of pollution including littering, plastic garbage patches in oceans, water pollution, and air pollution. It notes that littering costs the US $11.5 billion annually to clean up and plastic in the oceans has created a garbage patch twice the size of Texas. It also discusses issues with water access, quality concerns, and chemical contaminants. The document outlines failures of the Clean Water Act and exposure of Americans to dangerous chemicals in drinking water. It provides facts on air pollution and the negative health impacts of criteria pollutants and vehicle emissions.
Water Security: Bonus material
The document discusses several global water security issues including population growth, climate change, and water management strains threatening regional stability. It notes water issues are increasingly relevant globally and intersect with other policy areas. While water wars are likely overblown, changing demographics are challenging historical water sharing norms. The document outlines water conflicts between several countries and regions and the economic and social impacts of water shortages. It provides examples of strategies to address water challenges from industry, governments, and organizations.
pursuing sustainable planetary prosperity chapter 18 US-China 2022
China and the U.S. are the two largest consuming nations, their combined gross do- mestic products (GDPs) comprising one third of global GDP. The two nations consume one quarter of world natural gas and one third of world oil production, and produce nearly two thirds of world coal. The two nations are also the planet’s largest CO2 emitters, jointly releasing nearly half of the world total.
Business-as-usual scenarios are insufficient to address the acute sustainability challenges that both nations – as well as the community of nations
– are facing. However, collaboration in pursuing solutions through unprecedented statesmanship, leadership and technological advances will simultaneously provide national and global sustainability solutions.
Joint initiatives are in both of our nations’ enlightened self interest – from immediate and sustained economic and environmental gains to long-term well being and prosperity of our peoples – and will make a major, essential contribution to finding global solutions to the devastating risks facing hu- manity and the biosphere.
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The document discusses various types and causes of pollution including littering, water pollution, and air pollution. It notes that littering costs the US $11.5 billion annually to clean up and that plastic trash in the Pacific Ocean has created a garbage patch twice the size of Texas. Water pollution is also discussed, noting that a third of the world's population lives with water stress. Various sources of air pollution are outlined like vehicle emissions, factories, and smoke stacks. The health effects of air pollution include lung cancer, asthma, and other respiratory issues.
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The document outlines several major environmental challenges facing the world today, including pollution, climate change, overpopulation, resource depletion, waste issues, ecosystem destruction, and health impacts. It discusses how these problems disproportionately affect the poor due to factors like lack of access to healthcare, living in polluted areas, and reliance on public transportation. Resolving these massive environmental issues is difficult as many governments prioritize industrialization and economic development over environmental protection.
What is soil pollution
Soil pollution occurs when contaminants like heavy metals, chemicals, and toxins accumulate in the soil. Common sources of soil pollution include industrial waste, mining, improper waste disposal, agricultural runoff containing pesticides and fertilizers, and accidents involving radioactive or hazardous materials. Soil pollution poses risks to human health through direct contact with contaminated soil or ingestion of contaminated plants and water, and can harm ecosystems. Efforts are underway to prevent further soil pollution and remediate contaminated sites using methods like excavation, containment, and phytoremediation using plants that uptake heavy metals.
1.0Natural disasters
The document discusses various natural disasters that have occurred over the past century including earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, and pandemics. It provides details on specific devastating natural disasters like the 2008 Sichuan earthquake in China that killed nearly 10,000 people, and the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan that caused over 350 deaths. The document also suggests various ways to help protect the environment such as planting trees, conserving water and energy, reducing waste, and using renewable resources and public transportation.
Global Climate Change, Energy & Health: Foreboding Clouds & Silver Linings
This document summarizes a presentation on global climate change and its health impacts. It discusses how climate change is increasing temperatures, altering precipitation patterns, and intensifying extreme weather events. These climatic changes threaten to undermine progress on health issues like infectious diseases, food security and malnutrition. However, addressing climate change also presents opportunities to improve health through policies like active transportation that reduce emissions and encourage physical activity.
Pollution presentation for 7th class
it is attractive and it is for your education. I have used many attractive animations and it has good amount of study material.
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Environment day
This document discusses the establishment and purpose of World Environment Day by the United Nations. It notes that World Environment Day was established in 1972 on June 5th by the UN General Assembly to mark the opening of the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment. This led to the creation of the UN Environment Programme to raise awareness of environmental issues and encourage public action and political discussion around addressing problems facing the global environment. The day is now an occasion each year to discuss environmental problems and ways to take corrective action toward protecting the environment.
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The document summarizes news from South America related to environment, science, technology, and health. It discusses experts calling for better monitoring and inclusion of water in development goals due to threats from human activities like dams and irrigation altering the global water system. It also reports on a conference in Germany bringing together water researchers to inform policy on water governance. Additionally, it notes a regional project cataloging humpback whales led by Chilean scientists and participation of local fishermen in ecotourism.
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- 2. China's environmental crises seem to arise on a scale as sweeping and epic as the vast nation itself
- 3. According to the Environmental Protection Agency's air quality scale, any pollution rating above 300 means the air is unsafe to breathe. Under these conditions, people should stay indoors with an air purifier running and remain as motionless as possible, according to U.S. Embassy Beijing guidelines. On Jan. 12, the reading reached an eye-bleeding 886, comparable to living inside a smoking lounge. A cause can be that China now burns 47 percent of the world's coal, roughly equal to the amount used by all other countries of the world combined
- 4. More than half of China's surface water is so polluted it cannot be treated to make it drinkable. One-quarter of it is so dangerous it can't even be used for industrial purposes. About 40 percent of China's farmland relies on underground water for irrigation, and an estimated 90 percent is polluted.
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