Pollution and its Adverse Effects

The homework for this week was to design you own disaster warning system and create it on Google slides. Then you were to share them with me. Most people have created their slides and have shared them. After looking them over, I can say that there were many interesting, useful, and well-thought out designs. I enjoyed reading them all. I may ask a few people to share them with us at the front of the room, at least one. Are there any takers out there? I will make sure you get some extra points for your efforts! 

One of the world's biggest problems is pollution. We can't escape polluted air, rivers, streams, oceans, forests, and grasslands these days. Unfortunately, pollution has become more and more widespread with the advent of machinery, cars, trucks, tools, and factories, all of which came to fruition during the rise of the industrial age. These kinds of equipment can cause pollution in our green world (making it more brown than green), so much so that it has become difficult to turn back the pages. However, that does not mean that turning back the pages is impossible. It will take hard work, careful planning, and even paying fruitful attention to the way we manufacture, control, use, and discard waste at the end of the day.

In the next class we focus on this very problem and the negative effects that can lead to bad health, low aptitude, body fatigue and problems that arise in many natural areas. Many negative effects can be harmful to health and hard on the environment as well. Even some things we do not consider pollution, such as noise or light, can be considered pollutants because they affect our health in negative ways. Too much noise and light can cause stress leading to coronary problems and high blood pressure. That means they can cause, yes, even death as well. Pollution is not to be taken lightly!

Our next design will be a pollution measurement and control center, in which we will focus on how to determine the effects of pollution and how to adequately measure, control, and end pollution forever. Why? Because the first step in ending pollution is measuring it and its effects. Then we can take steps in controlling it, and finally in ending it altogether.