What effect does environmental pollution have on people's lives?

People need to breathe air to keep alive. An adult breathes about 20,000 times a day and inhales 1.5 ~ 20 cubic meters of air. Therefore, polluted air has a direct impact on human health.

Air pollutants do harm to human body in many ways, such as respiratory system damage, physiological dysfunction, digestive system disorder, nervous system abnormality, mental decline, cancer, disability and so on. People call the smoke of this disaster "the smoke of killing".

When the concentration of pollutants in the atmosphere is high, it will cause acute pollution poisoning, or aggravate the symptoms, and even kill thousands of people within a few days. In fact, even if the concentration of pollutants in the atmosphere is not high, breathing this polluted air all the year round will cause chronic bronchitis, bronchial asthma, emphysema, lung cancer and other diseases.

2. Garbage pollution

In garbage, toxic gases drift with the wind, and the contents of sulfur dioxide and lead in the air increase, which increases the incidence of respiratory diseases and is harmful to human body. Excessive pollutants in groundwater lead to diarrhea, schistosomiasis and trachoma. For example, there is a dysentery epidemic in Guiyang, which is caused by groundwater being infiltrated by garbage and Escherichia coli exceeding the standard seriously.

3. Water pollution

Harm to people, if people drink polluted water, it will cause acute and chronic poisoning, cancer, infectious diseases and other strange diseases. Sensory deterioration caused by polluted water will bring inconvenience to people's lives and adversely affect people's emotions.

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Countermeasures

1. Guide enterprises to develop in the direction of clean production and green production, change backward production methods, change extensive production into energy-saving intensive production, put an end to high-pollution and low-benefit project construction, and control the total amount of garbage pollutants.

In particular, the disposal of toxic and harmful substances should be based on the principles of safety, prudence and enterprise recycling. Wastes with useful value are not allowed to be wasted and discarded, so as to make the best use of them and recycle them. Wastes of no use value must be treated harmlessly before they can be buried or burned.

2. Intensify publicity to promote green consumption. Through television, media and other channels, we will publicize the hazards of garbage pollution in various forms, popularize environmental protection knowledge, publicize laws and regulations, and raise environmental awareness.

Residents should collect garbage separately, consciously reduce the amount of garbage produced, and actively use degradable items, such as paper products and wood products, so that the work of garbage reduction is in the ascendant. Try to buy and use green certified products and pollution-free products, and form a good atmosphere in which green enters the family and families love environmental protection. Implement a charging policy.

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Baidu encyclopedia-environmental pollution

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Baidu encyclopedia-garbage pollution

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Baidu encyclopedia-water pollution