Environmental Pollution, Its Sources and Effects

Environmental pollution had been a fact of life for many centuries
but it became a real problem since the start of the industrial revolution.

In fact, “the due course” itself may last many years during which the nature will attempt to decompose the pollutants; in one of the worst cases – that of radioactive pollutants – it may take as long as thousands of years for the decomposition of such pollutants to be completed.

Pollution occurs, on the one hand, because the natural environment does not know how to decompose the unnaturally generated elements (i.e., anthropogenic pollutants), and, on the other, there is a lack of knowledge on the part of humans on how to decompose these pollutants artificially.

Why does pollution matter?

It matters first and foremost because it has negative impacts on crucial environmental servicessuch as provision of clean air and clean water (and many others) without which life on Earth as we know it would not exist.

source : http://www.tropical-rainforest-animals.com/Environmental-Pollution.html