27.04.2022
Chemical Pollution Has Passed Safe Limit For Humanity
The cocktail of chemical pollution that pervades the planet now threatens the stability of global ecosystems upon which humanity depends, scientists have said. Chemical pollution threatens Earth’s systems by damaging the biological and physical processes that underpin all life. For example, pesticides wipe out many non-target insects, which are fundamental to all ecosystems and, therefore, to the provision of clean air, water and food. There has been a fiftyfold increase in the production of chemicals since 1950 and this is projected to triple again by 2050. There are reportedly around 350,000 different types of manufactured chemicals - or “novel entities” as they are known - on the global market. They include: Pesticides, Industrial chemicals, Antibiotics, Plastic and etc. These are created by human activity with mostly unknown effects on the Earth’s ecosystems. Current chemical production capacity reached 3.2 billion tons, as is projected to double by 2030. The global chemical industry exceeded $6 trillion in 2021. Chemical pollutants are largely impacting the environment and human health in a negative way.
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Poverty deprives people of adequate education, health care and of life's most basic necessities- safe living conditions (including clean air and clean drinking water) and an adequate food supply. The developed (industrialized) countries today account for roughly 20 percent of the world's population but control about 80 percent of the world's wealth.
Poverty and pollution seem to operate in a vicious cycle that, so far, has been hard to break. Even in the developed nations, the gap between the rich and the poor is evident in their respective social and environmental conditions.
Poverty and pollution seem to operate in a vicious cycle that, so far, has been hard to break. Even in the developed nations, the gap between the rich and the poor is evident in their respective social and environmental conditions.
