Natural disasters are events that occur when unexpected. Different factors of pollution include: the visible sources of automobiles releasing gas; causing environmental pollution, oil tank spills; which affect aquatic life, nitrogen; according to the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment “leads to the loss of agricultural and forest productivity,” and even acid rain; which is a gas that has been contaminated by substances throughout the atmosphere.
According to an online article on Toxic Rain, places like that of Long Island, New York are experiencing signs of acid deposition and have been for years. Acid rain is capable of decomposing elements of nature that we not only enjoy spending time in, but also acid rain can affect the health of any persons around it.
In the reading, Ecosystems and Human Well-Being, people of the 21st Century have “doubled the flow of reactive nitrogen on the continents.” The effect that pollution has on the environment, people, animals and plants was not as well-known years ago like they are today.
Relating back to, The Lessons of Easter Island, the people of this time constructed technologies that were “irreversibly damaging that environment.” The people of Easter Island wanted to build up their environment with advancements; however, just like in current times taking a risk with technology does not always benefit society. Their waters hardly contained fish, and now we have more food offered to us than we can consume.
Environmental problems we face today are not new. They do; however, keep occurring so make it a point to keep the environment that we live in clean. Try not to take advantage of what you have. Think about these factors that deal with pollution when going about your day. We can’t get so lost in our hi-tech world that we forget about our surroundings.
