The Earth Is Not Big Enough For All Our Pollution

Pollution is everywhere. Pollution is present in the air, in the form of carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide causes climatological chaos, CFCs and methane that destroy the protective ozone layer.

Then there is sulfur dioxide that causes acid rain and smog, not to mention all the other chemicals that contribute to respiratory ailments and cancers.

You’ll find pollution in the soil, deposited as it falls from the air and lingering for decades after being applied to croplands or washed into the silt of riverbeds of most seemingly pristine estuaries. Pollution is also found in the water, making ground-level pollution mobile, taking raw discharge from factories and sewage plants. That’s just to name a few types of pollution – you simply can’t get away from it.

Once it was reasonable, though naive, to think that the skies and ocean were large enough to dilute anything human beings could collectively throw at it. However, the Earth has been shown to be an effectively closed system that can no longer handle the number of people or the polluting waste that we toss out.

There is one consolation to all the mess we are in, and that is people of today are beginning to realize that the pollution we have created, is not going to go away. If this one consolation does nothing but awaken people to the catastrophic effects it has on us all, and changes some of the habits among us now, then there is hope for our future.

You are one such person. You are reading this now, and I congratulate you.

The world thanks you!