HUMAN ACTIVITIES AS REASONS OF PULLUTION

Nowadays, the human beings live in a period characterized by the adverses effects of their
daily activities which affects the planetary ecosystem. Even though this facts are having
the greatest consequences on this time, they’ve had implications from the beginning of the
human development. In addition, the contemporary environmental awareness has been
increasing with the purpose of solving, mitigating and preventing the effects in the
environment and it comes from the humanity concern to avoid the extinction of life.  If The
human race didn't care, it would be very stubborn. Like Goodland & Dalythe said as well
“Society has the duty to learn how to live within the biophysical restrictions which are set
by ecosystems.”

In this sense, it is suggested that most of the activities that human being perfoms daily
has economic, cultural, polític and religious components and those activities generate an
amount of residues to the environment and nature. These are known as “hazardous
residues“; depending on its chemical and physical composition, they can be: solid, liquid or
gaseous, and can cause adverse effects, with varied magnitude, to human being and to
the environment

In great measure, pollution is an effect of the human wastes and it damages the biotics
and abiotics components from the biosphere. This fact leads directly to the biodiversity
loss, the change of the ecosystem balance, progressive increase of the solar radiation
incidence and to the gradual loss of different ecosystems. On the other hand, there are
other facts that contribute to pollution; these are the unsustainable practices developed by
humans in different sectors -agricultural sector, health sector, mining sector, etc.- and the
low efficiency of the waste disposal and trash pickup service companies. Also, the people
neglect when the waste is not pulled out at the source, is considered a pollution fact.

The afectation that are generated by the pollution of natural resources becomes in one of
the problems with the higher cost to the economy of each country, due to the resources,
which is finite, has been scarcing since several decades ago and nowadays people can
not get the same profit as before; this shortage is increasing and, if things continue like
this, soon will not be a source to take advantage of it. As nowadays there are fewer and
fewer resources, the usufruct of those must be reduced, the excessive and indiscrimated
use of the natural resources must be controlled through an international legal framework
which contains restrictiva and hard laws.
Following the previous idea, it is noticed that one of the main activities which represents
some economyc systems, is agriculture. Since the beginning of the greatest civilizations
developement, agriculture has constituted the mainstay for their strengthening. In this
activity, there are different practics that are not considered sustainable, just like the use of
pesticides which, due to their chemical composition -organophosphorus and
organochlorine- they change the ecosystem balance present in the soil, they also pollute
bodies of water due to leaching and furthermore, they undermine an adverse effect on
people's health.

By other hand, most of the contaminants produced anthropogenically are generated by the
industrial sector, which emanates to the environment large quantities of chemicals with
variety level of toxicity, affecting directly the water sources due to the intetional slope of
residues by the companies that generate them; in those companies’ process, gases
emision are also produced, which are known as greenhouse gases, they propitiate
phenomena such as: thermal inversion, caloric island in the cities and others that go hand
in hand with the global warming.

In addition, after a process of biological magnification the contaminants reach the terminal
link of the trophic chain that is obviously represented by human beings. In fact, either next
or long-term impacts will end up affecting the entire human race and mainly, they will
impact pregnant women, children and elderly people.

The human being is just one of the many existent species in earth, he acts with no
consideration about what may happen to the ecosystem because he thinks it is something
different to him and also thinks that he does not belong to it and, therefore, believes that
can do whatever he want with nature, huge mistake.

To finish, it is worth mentioning a verse from the poem “Ecological Inconscience” by Carlos
Enrique Lopez:

The irrational ecological tragedy,

The destruction to the eternity,

It will be the start and the end of life,

That at any instante will vanish.