How to End Pollution
Now a day pollution is one of the major problem to all of the country. Even out of the world human producing a lots of pollution including space debris which can create serious issues for human as well as living organism. We genuinely end the pollution, but we gradually decries the level of pollution by taking various steps. An independent Environmental Protection Agency is required to build scientific and technical capacity for controlling pollution. Let’s discuss below about how to control or stop pollution.
What is pollution? And What are the Pollutants?
Pollution is referred to as the introduction of contaminants into the natural environment that cause adverse change. Pollution can take the form of chemical substances or energy, such as noise, heat, or light. Pollutants, the components of pollution, can be either foreign substances/energies or naturally occurring contaminants. Pollution, even in minuscule amounts, impacts the ecological balance. Pollutants can make their way up the food chain and eventually find their way inside the human body. Read on to explore the types of pollution and their implications.
Various Types of Pollution
We often see various types of pollution. Some of them are discuss below.
- Air Pollution: It is a mixture of solid particles and gases in the air. Car emissions, chemicals from factories, dust, pollens and mold spores may be suspended as particles.
- Water Pollution: It is the release of substances into bodies of water that makes water unsafe for human use and disrupts aquatic ecosystems.
- Soil Pollution: Soil contamination or soil pollution as part of land degradation is caused by the presence of xenobiotics (human-made) chemicals or other alteration in the natural soil environment.
- Noise Pollution: Noise pollution is the propagation of noise with ranging impacts on the activity of human or animal life, most of them harmful to a degree.
What are the steps needed to be taken?
- Deal with pollution firmly and gradually is the basic and the first step to be taken. If this is done, it can be brought down to developed-country levels within a few years. There are many sources of pollution and it would be ridiculously costly to stop them or even significantly reduce them all at once.
- The 2nd step to be taken is to replacement of existing technologies. Smoky firewood, dung and crop residues that are burnt in kitchens all over rural India and some urban slums must be replaced with LPG, induction stoves, and other electric cooking appliances.
- From the industrial sector the old coal power plants must be closed and replaced with wind and solar power and batteries or other forms of energy storage, while newer plants must install new pollution control equipment. Other industries that use coal will have to gradually switch over to cleaner fuel sources such as gas or hydrogen.
- Farmers will have to switch crops or adopt alternative methods of residue management.
- Diesel and petrol vehicles must gradually be replaced by electric or hydrogen fuel cell vehicles running on power generated from renewables.
- It is easy for governments to make clean investments more profitable and dirty investments less profitable. All that needs to be done is to tax polluting activities and subsidise clean investments.
- The EPA can announce that they will raise the pollution fees by a certain percentage every year. This gives businesses time to adjust; they will then find it profitable to make new investments in non-polluting technologies.
- For example, a fee on plastic production at refineries, since it is very costly to monitor small producers and retailers of plastic bags; a fee on fly ash or sulphur dioxide emitted by coal power plants, and a fee on coal use, a fee on diesel at refineries, etc.
