Pollution- Impacts slowly, but lethally

What is Pollution?

• -Pollution is the introduction of contaminants into the natural environment that causes adverse change. Pollution can take the form of chemical substances or energy, such as noise, heat or light.

Common Types of Pollution

Air pollution

• The release of chemicals and particulates into the atmosphere.

Causes?

Littering

• the criminal act of throwing inappropriate man-made objects, unremoved, onto public and private properties.

Causes?

Noise pollution

• This encompasses roadway noise, aircraft noise, industrial noise as well as high-intensity sonar.

Visual pollution

• which can refer to the presence of overhead power lines, motorway billboards, scarred landforms (as from strip mining), open storage of trash, municipal solid waste or space debris.

Causes?

Water pollution• by the discharge of wastewater from commercial and

industrial waste (intentionally or through spills) into surface waters;

Causes?

Effects

Air pollution: respiratory disease, cardiovascular disease, throat inflammation, chest pain, and congestionWater Pollution: Cholera, Diarhea, Internal failures

Littering:Environmental bad odor . Hazardous &

poisonous to animals. Clog in water drainage & urban streets

Noise pollution

• Permanent hearing loss• High blood pressure• Insomnia• Labored breathing • Stress • Permanent damage to voice

How can we help prevent it?

• Recycling,• Reusing, • Reducing• Waste minimization, • Compost.

What does the bible say about it?

• Jeremiah 2:7-And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination.Revelation 16:3 -And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea.

Genesis 2 : 15 - And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.Exodus 20 : 10 - But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:

• Exodus 35:2 - Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you an holy day, a Sabbath of rest to the LORD: whosoever doeth work therein shall be put to death.