It is a major problem affecting our environment and is a growing source of global concern. Human activities such as industrialization, intensive agriculture, and inadequate waste management generate alarming amounts of toxic waste and contaminants that pollute the soil, air, and fresh water.
Agricultural machinery and the products used for cultivation continuously pollute to provide us with food every day. Consider all the pollution generated to grow this food, every product in your fridge and pantry.
In addition to the pollution produced during the cultivation, transportation, and sale of this food, a significant amount is discarded as waste, creating double the pollution! Once for its production and once more for its disposal. What a waste and what pollution! This is how we pollute without even consuming.
How can we address this issue? Should we eat less or choose food that generates less pollution? Or should we donate food a few days before its expiration date? Is it better to lose money or to waste food economically?
Reference : Les Échos – Source UICN
Humans have become dependent on various forms of energy such as oil, coal, and electricity to live in a technologically advanced society, which makes our daily lives easier.
Whether it's going grocery shopping, commuting to work, heating or cooling our homes, traveling, cleaning, or acquiring new goods, all these activities contribute to pollution. In short, living on Earth today means polluting.
The planet's overall temperature will rise to the point where the frozen poles will no longer be able to "cool" the planet. This heat will foster the development of new, even more resistant and dangerous bacteria and viruses.
What will we do when these diseases appear in the oceans, in the air, and on land? Will we be able to confront them? Will we still have time to address the issue? Will we have the resources? Will we respond in the same way we did to COVID?