SEC-S16 / W4 | "The Environment and Our Health" by jahangeerkhanday

Greetings, dear friends, how are you all? I hope you all are fine and enjoying your day. I wish for you all good health, wealth and a prosperous time ahead. Today I am here to share my views regarding today’s contest, and I hope I’ll be able to draw your attention towards my content and also get your votes and the valuable feedback.

What do you understand by the Word "Environment"?

Anything,that is around us be it tangible, or intangible, living, or nonliving, moving or static, chemical, or biological constitute our environment.it is the environment that helps all the living beings live because a deep interaction between the environment and the organism is always necessary for survival. For example, taking a human life into consideration, it would have been impossible to survive without the existence of air, water, and other life saving factors like the sunlight, the soil, the various nutrients in the soil.

How do our surroundings impact our well-being?

Environment has a very significant role in the well-being of an organism because it’s the interaction of the organism with its environment all through life, which makes us to survive. Any change in environment could lead to the malady and the hindrance to the smooth growth and interaction. Further nature always has a tendency to help the organism grow and develop without posing much potential threats to harm them.
Living in a clean environment would always help to be healthy, sound, Physically fit and would always keep diseases away. I have personally seen many people living in very clean environments like in the countryside where a very pure and clean environment exists, and they also live for long as compared to the ones who live in the commotion of cities.Here, I do not intend to compare between the city and the villages, but it is something what I have observed over a period of time being very much involved with both the areas right from my childhood.

What are some ways pollution, like air or water pollution, can affect our health?

I personally do not have any expertise in this field, but still, I would try to state here the effects of various pollutions on an individual. Air pollution can lead to lung diseases like Cough, asthma, bronchitis. Here in Kashmir, in the spring season, I have usually seen people coughing and sneezing due to the pollen infection. The pollen that float in the air are of exogenous species of populus tree that have been imported from some European country, long time before and as it is not indigenous to this area, affecting our environment. Here we can deduce one more idea regarding pollution that it’s not only the man-made things cause pollution, but some natural things can also lead to pollution When they are not placed in their Proper place.
Water pollution is one of the major causes of various diseases in this modern era. Diseases like typhoid, hepatitis, gastro intestinal infections, skin diseases, lung infections, and even cancer maybe caused due to polluted water.

What are some simple actions you take every day to promote environmental health?

It has always been man who degrades a natural thing. Man has a immense capability of affecting almost everything that surrounds him in both negative as well as the positive ways. Humans have been blessed with a plethora of capabilities which he can execute in upgrading as well as degrading of things.Nothing is impossible for a human being and the environment could also be changed to its primitive form by adopting different mechanism and strategies. A human at micro level can change his environment by refraining from the activities that lead to its degradation. Every human being can help to upgrade an environment by not adding pollutant to it. In case of an household, we can refrain from adding polythene and other non-biodegradable substances to it and rather we can adopt different sustainable mechanisms like less usage of non-biodegradable substances and their proper disposal and also look for the alternate ways. Water on the other hand can be kept clean, by not adding the polluted water to the main sources and adopt some alternate methods like soakage pits to filter out the pollutants from water before adding it to the rivers and streams. In case of Agriculture, less usage of fertilisers and pesticides would lead to less soil and water pollution, and we must switch over to biological ways to enhance our crops.

How can education and awareness play a role in promoting environmental health?

Education has a very significant role in promoting awareness about the environment health. It is the education which helps us to deeply understand the impacts of environmental pollution and its concerns. I as a human being could hardly know about the Pollution without having proper knowledge of the composition and the interaction of environment with human. For instance without having a proper knowledge of temperatures we could hardly know about climate change et cetera It’s the education which leads us to know about the nature in more detail and also helps us to know about the ways to enhance our environment. Education is important to know the composition of the various elements present in our surroundings and it helps us to know about how the different factors responsible for sustaining life work.

Conclusion

Life cannot exist without having an environment, and it’s only because of the interaction between various elements that the world still exists. It could have perished a long time before if the proper interaction would have disappeared. Now to keep this interaction alive and pure one needs to take proper care of environment. It is the environment which reciprocates very quickly, that is, if we harm it, it harm us back with more intensity and if we love it, it would love us more passionately.

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