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    This document discusses various threats to the environment, including pollution, waste, and their impacts. Air pollution from vehicle exhaust and factory emissions contributes to increased greenhouse gases and climate change. Water pollution from untreated sewage and oil spills contaminates drinking water. Deforestation, industrial waste, and palm oil harvesting damage forests and endanger wildlife. Rising consumption and population growth put more stress on natural resources and lead to more pollution and waste.

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    This document discusses various threats to the environment, including pollution, waste, and their impacts. Air pollution from vehicle exhaust and factory emissions contributes to increased greenhouse gases and climate change. Water pollution from untreated sewage and oil spills contaminates drinking water. Deforestation, industrial waste, and palm oil harvesting damage forests and endanger wildlife. Rising consumption and population growth put more stress on natural resources and lead to more pollution and waste.

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    THREATS

    TO OUR

    ENVIRONMENT
    SO WHAT IS HAPPENING TO OUR
    PLANET ?

    -What threats to the environment do you know


    of?
    -What sort of problems has air/ water/soil
    pollution caused ?
    -Give examples ….
    -What can we , as society and individuals do to
    help?
    WASTE
    Where does it all go?
    Mexico City has a trash
    problem – a big one. Just 6
    percent of the city’s waste is
    recycled, with the rest filling
    vast (open-air) landfills.

    Vital drinking water is being


    contaminated.
    ASIA
    Billions tons of
    garbage are being
    dumped into the
    Pacific Ocean.
    INDUSTRIA
    L WASTE Scrapyard
    Oil drums

    Tire pile
    WATER
    POLLUTION
    Bangkok
    Hot raw sewage being
    dumped into the river.

    Guinea Sewage and


    surface water pollution -
    untreated sewage is
    dumped into local
    waterways.
    MIAMI The BP oil spill
    (April 2010) off the Louisiana
    coast created a worldwide
    impression that Florida’s shores
    were awash in crude.

    OIL
    SPILLS
    Oil spills damage
    beaches and fragile
    marine ecosystems.
    AIR POLLUTION
    BANGKOK traffic
    jam

    LONDON SMOG
    Exhaust fumes and factory
    emissions are major producers of CHINA factory pollution
    CO2
    and other
    greenhouse
    gases.
    GREENHOUSE
    EFFECT
    GREENHOUSE
    EFFECT
    Human activities are causing greenhouse gas levels in
    the atmosphere to increase.
    Solar energy is absorbed by the earth's surface, causing
    the earth to warm and to emit infrared radiation. The
    greenhouse gases then trap the infrared radiation, thus
    warming the atmosphere.

    This is called GLOBAL WARMING.


    OZONE LAYER The hole is caused by
    different gases resulting
    from human-produced
    chemicals, such as
    chlorofluorocarbons
    (CFCs) used in air-
    conditioners,
    refrigerators…

    The ozone layer blocks 90-99% of the sun's harmful ultraviolet


    radiation, which causes skin cancer, genetic damage, and eye damage,
    and is harmful to marine life.
    CLIMATE CHANGE Floodings

    Droughts

    Tornados
    Rising sea
    Hurricanes levels
    Melting of
    icebergs
    DEFORESTATIO
    N Almost one-fifth of Brazil's Amazon
    region - an area the size of France - has
    WILD FIRES been deforested to date, mostly in the
    last 40 years.

    Soil erosion - A desert landscape


    that used to be a forest but following a
    drought and continued high temperatures
    the forest has receded.
    Trees are
    chopped down to
    make room for
    housing, farming
    or cattle grazing.
    PALM OIL*
    HARVESTING
    RAVAGES
    INDONESIAN
    FORESTS AND
    ENDANGERS
    WILDLIFE

    *a popular ingredient in
    nearly 75 percent of food
    products which has one
    of the largest
    environmentally
    destructive effects
    More people means:
    More need for space
    More need for resources and energy
    More need for production

    More consumption

    END MORE WASTE AND


    RESULT POLLUTION

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