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Effects of technology on the
Environment
• Increased pollution: industrialization, increased
population
• Increased use of fuel
• Affects of pesticides on organisms other
than the crops sprayed.
• Ecosystems destroyed to build infrastructure

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 Pollution – Definition
Any undesirable change in physical , chemical or
biological characteristics of air , land , water

Pollution is the introduction of contaminants into an

environment that causes instability, disorder, harm or
discomfort to the ecosystem i.e. physical systems or
living organisms.
Pollution can take the form of chemical substances
or energy, such as noise, heat, or light. ...
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What kinds of pollution are there?
Water

Pollution

Solid
Air
Waste

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 How Why

A cloud of smoke Increasing traffic

from the exhaust of Growing cities
a vehicle
Rapid economic
Smoke from a development
factory chimney
Industrialization
Eruption of a
volcano
Cigarette smoke Apathetic people

Burning leaves
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 Effects of Air
Pollution
• Health problems
• Damage to the environment
• Damage to property
• Thinning of the protective
ozone layer of the atmosphere
which is leading to climate changes

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 Ozone (O ) 3

Made up of three oxygen atoms

Occurs naturally as a layer in the
stratosphere
The layer is thickest around the equator and
the concentration decreases towards the
poles
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 Ozone Depletion: Greenhouse gases, CFC

Skin Cancer
Cataracts and Other Eye Damages
Suppression of Immunity

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 Water Pollution
How Sources
• Toxic substances • City sewage
dissolve in water or
• Industrial waste
gets deposited on the
bed. • Agricultural run-off
• Toxic substances
enter lakes, rivers,
streams, etc.
• Pollutants go down
into the ground.
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 Effects of Water Pollution

• and animals,
Devastating to people
fish, and birds.

•
Unsuitable for drinking, recreation,
agriculture, and industry.

Destroys water life.

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 Solid Waste
Types of waste Why
• Household waste • Population increases
• Industrial waste • Increased plastics
• Biomedical or hospital products
Waste • Changes in lifestyle
•E-waste • Landfills not well
equipped to protect
against contamination

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 Sustainable
Development
Solid waste
Hazards Management
mitigation

World
Energy Conservation
conservation
strategy
HEALTHY
ENVIRONMENT
Environmental
Pollution Laws
control

Rain water
Water Biodiversity Harvesting
Resources
conservation
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