Save water‚ save life Water is necessary for life. Water is needed for domestic‚ agricultural and industrial purposes. Three-fourth of Earth ’s surface is covered by water bodies. 97 per cent of this water is present in oceans as salt water and is unfit for human consumption. Fresh water accounts for only about 2.7 per cent. Nearly 70 per cent of this occurs as ice sheets and glaciers n Antarctica and other inaccessible places. Only one per cent of fresh water is available and fit for human use
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Plant. The garbage emitting foul smell‚ the decaying plants and animals also cause air pollution. Hence the doctors advise the patients having lungs trouble to settle in some rural places because the air of villages is pure and free from population. Then comes sound pollution. The harsh sounds of buses‚ its‚ mopeds etc. affect our power of hearing and causes fart trouble. It has been reported that there are two villages named Biraspalli and Devadas Palli near Dum Dum airport m Calcutta where a
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Pollution – Thank God man cannot fly and lay waste In Air and Land. Pollution is probably the most serious issue facing the world today.Yet we keep on turning a blind eye to it‚believing that it won’t affect us.Pollution of various element sof out ecosystem like air‚water‚ soil and sound has caused serious damage already.In Man’s quest for a better life and his mad rush for material possessions has forgot ‚ or rather chose to ignore the impact of his deeds on the environment.Quite naturally‚
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1. What is Revitalization Movement? What are the stages of Revitalization Movement? It’s a deliberate‚ organized‚ effort by members of society to construct a more satisfying culture. The Revitalization Movement stages include homeostasis or steady state‚ increased individual stress‚ deviant‚ the system or the establishment and cultural distortion. 2. Give three examples of Revitalization Movements (other than ISKCON). Iroquois Religion of Handsome Lake‚ the Ghost Dance Religion of
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Pollution is 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 is often classed as point source or nonpoint source pollution. There are 6 (six) types of pollution that are going to be discussed in this site‚ namely air‚ water‚ noise‚ land
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natural environment is depleting day by day. The natural resources such as water‚ land‚ air‚ etc. are getting affected by these activities from humans that are going on at a fast pace. In addition to all these activities that human undertake to affect the environment‚ such as deforestation‚ soil erosion‚ construction‚ pollution‚ etc. a lot of negligence from the humans is also adding to the overall problem associated with our environment. Issues such as global warming‚ depletion of the ozone layer
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is that of environmental pollution‚ increasing with every passing year and causing grave and irreparable damage to the earth. Environmental pollution consists of five basic types of pollution‚ air‚ water‚ soil‚ noise and light. Air pollution is the most harmful form of pollution in our environment. Air pollution is cause by the injurious smoke emitted by cars‚ buses‚ trucks‚ trains‚ and factories‚ namely sulphur dioxide‚ carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxides. Even smoke from burning leaves and cigarettes
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A Critique of “205 Easy Ways to Save the Earth” by Thomas Friedman Foreign affairs columnist for the New York Times‚ Thomas Friedman‚ is a man who wants to try to change the world by trying to convince people to go green. But‚ he is convinced that going green is not as easy as everyone makes it sound. His article “205 Easy Ways to Save the Earth‚” first published in 2007‚ presents several arguments attempting to convince people that while going green is difficult‚ it is possible. The author first
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Pollution Human beings have always caused some environmental pollution. Since prehistoric times‚ people have created waste. Like garbage today‚ this waste was either burned‚ tossed into waterways‚ buried‚ or dumped aboveground. However‚ the waste of early peoples was mostly food scraps and other substances that broke down easily by natural decay processes. Prehistoric populations were also much smaller and were spread out over large areas. As a result‚ pollution was less concentrated and caused
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In wikipedia Light pollution From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search This article is about light pollution in the visible spectrum. For information on pollution in the radio spectrum‚ see radio spectrum pollution. This time exposure photo of New York City at night shows sky glow‚ one form of light pollution. Comparison of the view of the night sky from a small rural town (top) and a metropolitan area (bottom). Light pollution vastly reduces the visibility of stars
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