Top 10 Ways: How We Pollute Earth

1. Industries: The on start of industrial revolution was just the starting of atmospheric pollution. With the latest technologies, the life of the people is becoming easy, but is proving to be increasingly fatal to life on earth.
2. Automobiles: Another invention of the industrial revolution, this is one of the greatest reasons of pollution in the history of earth. The emission of harmful gases like carbon-di-oxide, nitrous oxide and sulphur compounds along with small polluting compounds and the poisonous Carbon monoxide has created a blanket of pollution over the first layer of atmosphere – Troposphere.
3. Population: The population explosion in countries is continuously pressurizing the resources of earth. Many of these resources are non renewable, which means that they cannot be replenished in a short span of time. Once they are completely exhausted, there is no way that they can be reproduced without waiting for some 1000 years. These resources include land, water (fresh drinking water), food and air.
4. Paper: The amount of paper produced every minute, every hour, every day, and every year is unexplainable. Newspapers, books, magazines, office paper and god only knows how much more paper for all the people on earth. Then how much time one can take to think that how many plants are being cut brutally for all this paper. Cutting down of the forests and the receding forest cover is misbalancing major forces on earth.
5. Garbage: The amount of waste produced by us as we consume the resources of earth likewise gorging on the feast is creating a continuous big heap which cannot be dumped anywhere! If we plan to dump it one on anther, it will be enough to make a path till moon! Recycle anyone?
6. Plastic: This one is the notorious of them all. Another invention of the industrial revolution, this non bio-degradable (cannot be decomposed by natural processes) compound was sought to be the best of all time inventions in the quest of mankind for eternity. But this menace has now taken over the world and is bounding to leave its mark on earth for the next thousands of years.
7. Smoking is not only injurious to the health of a human being but is also very harmful to the air in atmosphere. Smoke from cigarettes, cigars and other drugs poison the air. This in turn harms the flora and fauna of the surrounding region.
8. Science and technology: The new developments that are a breakthrough for scientists are creating more and more pollution in many direct and indirect ways. Like rocket propulsion is landing us on moon but it is leaving thousand liters of poisonous gases in the air.
9. The constant mining of earth’s crust for minerals, metals and other raw materials is slowly flailing its layers and the different topographic plates are becoming more and more mobile. In other words, earth’s crust is losing its strength. This is fatal. It’s a matter of life and death.
10. The hunting of animals at a rate more than the rate they are recuperate their population is creating an abridged gap between the different food chains and its components. The complete extinction of one animal or organism from the food chain is throwing the earth off its natural routine and causing it to alter its courses. These altered courses in turn are causing problems in other natural processes and hence in the end we are just at receiving end of the coming disaster.

We need to prick our conscience and immediately check our ways. It’s very difficult to alter the ways we live in now – comfy and easy. But these comfortable and easy ways are going to leave us nowhere if we don’t act now. These ways have their positives and negatives and the damages caused have reached a level beyond recovery. But no matter when we start acting, some way or the other it’s going to work and we’ll be able to turn the luck our way.