Environmental Challenge.

Environmental+Challenge.

Elyse, Author

Our environment is constantly changing, we can’t deny that. With the global warming, different types of weather patterns, a massive influx of natural disasters, pollution, etc. People should know what kind of problems our planet is facing.

A lot of environmental problems make us vulnerable to tragedies and disasters. We need  to fix the situation or we will be in a state of planetary emergency. Those are some of the problems that we’re facing.

1. Pollution

Water and air pollution does not tend to itself, it may requires a thousand of years to regenerate. Motor vehicles exhaust and  big industries are the number one pollutants. Our air is contaminated by various gas and toxins mainly released by industries and fossil fuels.  Our water is affected by factories too, but also by oil spills, acid rain and urban runoffs. Just remember that Montreal has just dumped 8 billions litres of waste water in the Saint Lawrence river.

 

2. Global warming

Global warming is the result of emission of Greenhouse gas due to human practices. It engenders a loss of polar ice caps, rise in sea levels, unnatural precipitations such as flash floods and excessive snow or desertification. No one can pretend that we are experiencing an average winter this year.

 

3. Deforestation

The forests of our planet help regulating temperature and rainfall. Indeed, they are producers of fresh oxygen. Because of the growth of the population, the demand for more food, shelter and cloth has increased substantially. Every year, the equivalent of the surface of the country of Panama is lost in forest.

 

Nowadays, many solutions have come to improve the situation of pollution. Everyone can make a change for the planet. It is now or never!