The impact of the environment on human health is quite significant. Many diseases are caused by air pollution, polluted drinking water, and consumption of chemically processed food. Health depends on lifestyle with 50%, 20% from the environment and technology development, 20% bad heredity and only 10% of it depends on the level of health care (Landon 2013).
Nowadays, an enormous amount of pollutants is released into the environment from industrial sources, whether pipe, that pour wastes into rivers or huge production waste landfills. Industrial toxic emissions into the atmosphere so rain and dust return to the surface and are gradually accumulated in the soil. A huge number of hazardous substances affect human health like arsenic, lead, mercury, cadmium, zinc, chromium, nickel, copper, cobalt that fall into groundwater drinking water sources. Along with the water, these elements enter our body, slowly poisoning it and provoking serious diseases such as cancer, asthma, various types of allergies.
All processes in the biosphere are interrelated. Humanity is only a small part of the biosphere, and man is only one of the types of organic life. Humanity for centuries has not sought to adapt to the natural environment, bit to make it easy for existence. Now we realize that every human activity has an impact on the environment and degradation of the biosphere is dangerous to all living creatures, including human. A comprehensive study of humanity, its relations with the world have led to an understanding that health is not merely the absence of disease but also physical, mental and social well-being. Health is this capital given to us not only by the nature of the birth, but also the conditions in which we live.
That is why, today, with the development of science it is so important to transit to the new, cleaner technologies. Using solar energy, earth, water and wind, is a way to save humanity from that deadly trap in which it exhausts itself. Now, unfortunately, any chemical plant, boiler, or livestock complex in varying degrees, contaminate the environment. Modern, advanced technology is still very expensive or not effective enough. However, if humanity wants to have a future, it will be forced to move to green energy and production. It is still not too late, yet our home does not become a dump inhabited by unhealthy men.
References
Landon, M. (2013). Environment, health and sustainable development. Maidenhead: Open University Press.
