Impacts of Air Pollution on Ecosystem and Human Health

This article discusses the impacts of air pollution on the ecosystem and human health. It covers the effects of global warming, land water deprivation, and decreased productivity output in both forests and farm activities. It also highlights the need for clean air and the adoption of environment-friendly energy sources.

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Introduction
Significantly, the conservation of the ecosystem is essential since the survival of all living
things primarily rely on the ecosystem. The imbalance of the ecosystem presume difficulties of
living and thus the slogan survival for the fittest (Kaiser & Meyer 2016). The imbalance of the
ecosystem is mainly caused by human activities that lead to the pollution of water, air and land.
Certainly, air pollution is the contamination of the air by various harmful substances that include
solid, liquid and gaseous. The substances contain toxins that contaminate the air and eventually
impacts such as global warming turn to be hazardous.
Significantly, the environmental Act of 1997 solidifies the rules and regulation that
govern the essence of clean air for balanced ecosystem. The Act addresses the limitation of
pollutants that cause air pollution and the depletion of ozone layer. Moreover the Act draws
attention on the fossil fuels to be used to limit emissions that facilitate air pollution. Some of the
strategies that the Act adopted to reduce air pollution include classification of air pollutants,
maintaining the accepted levels of emission and ensuring assimilation of technologies that reduce
pollution. The assimilation of eco-friendly sources of energy reduces the level of emission levels
to the universe (Environment ACT & Australian Capital Territory 1997).
The essence for clean air and the need for balance ecosystem impacted to the adoption of
pollution regulation in different European countries, for instance, the great smoke in United
Kingdom led to the Clean Air Act. The Act maintained that petrol locations be displaced to rural
areas. The Act further introduced the application of elevated chimneys to scatter air
pollution(Environment ACT & Australian Capital Territory 1997).

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New Zealand adopted the Clean Air Act to control the increasing air pollution in urban
areas. The Act assimilated categorization of air pollutant, ensuring certain levels of emission and
facilitated technology to decrease air pollution. Consequently, the declaration of New Zealand's
National Environmental Standards for Air Quality in 2004 with successiveimprovements has
ensured balanced ecosystem with clean air(Environment ACT & Australian Capital Territory
1997).
The instance of global warming has been reported to be an international concern since its
impacts are heavily felt in different parts of the world, for instance, Idaho. Global warming
results when the ozone layer depleted through human activities that cause air pollution, for
instance, the consumption of fossil fuels that have severe impacts to the air. Considerably, the
depletion of the ozone layer is due to the increase of chemical reactions of various gaseous
pollutants that escalate the percentage of carbon dioxide that is accountable for ozone depletion.
Global warming may have not seemed to be a relevant problem to those living in Idaho in
February (Lazaridis 2011). It was barley sixty degrees and the snow was melting nearly gone,
and then it nearly dumped 4 inches of snow when the day before was record high and smelt like
spring. Well the problem in this equation is that it was February with nearly six weeks of winter
it tasted like summer. Global warming is a problem think about this next time there is people
outside in shorts doing yard work or tilling their garden.
Land water deprivation is caused by two main things, global warming and over
population. As stated before the land is frozen when all the water melts off and finds its way to
the lowest points, the ocean is the lowest point. Now would not one think that since the earth is
getting warmer wont the water evaporate faster just speeding up the water cycle to fill up the
water table faster (Casper 2010). Yes and no is the correct answer. It does happen to speed up the

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water process by evaporating faster, but then it doesn’t allow for water to absorb. It also forces
the water to over condensate to quickly and rain all that water to close to the ocean. This is one
of the reasons why California is in a drought the other is because of over population. They
cannot collect the water fast enough in lakes with their dams to sustain throughout the dryer
seasons.
Global warming, as stated before, causes polar ice caps to melt away. Since this ice if
frozen must imply that it is purely fresh water. Because saltwater does not freeze from the high
salt and the chemical reaction is stays liquid and denser than the fresh and frozen water’s. This is
why it floats and is there for unsinkable ships to sink like the titanic. The rising fresh water
content pollutes the salty seas with freshness (McKenzie-Mohr 2012). This freshness actually is
not good for many species like coral reefs and others that depend on the high salt content. Now
this causes them to dwindle till death. Then again speaking of sinking ships many have been
sunk to help reclaim the coral seas so that they can build and grow off them, but this is only a
temporary solution to anenduring problem. Such because it would corrode and oxidize away then
to break away and damage the coral reefs has worked so hard to build.
Global warming has significant impact in the production patterns in Idaho. There is
variability in the production patterns and consequently, the patterns shift northward. The climatic
changes and variability makes the adaption by farmers in Idaho a challenge because the patterns
are uncertain (Casper 2010). Furthermore, the increased evaporation rates and warmer climates
escalate the need the need for irrigation. The irrigation schemes are further intolerable because
the availability of water supply decreases. The conditions in Idaho makes the water level
decrease below the expected level and hence, the irrigation system turns out to be a primary
challenge that anticipates for immediate and exact solutions. The farmers in Idaho are challenged

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when it comes to irrigation because the water supply diminishes and consequently, the irrigated
crops bear less or no yields (Lazaridis 2011). The citizens in Idaho basically depend on barley,
wheat, hay and potatoes. There would be increased production in wheat, barley and hay.
However, the rates of production in potatoes would decrease because the water supply turns to be
an issue of concern. Therefore, the disparity in production changes impacts to agricultural
imbalance.
The global warming menace impacts to increased wildfires because the tracts of land
easily catch fire. There is threat in both forest and property destruction because the drier and
hotter weather tends to increase the rates and intensity of wildfires in Idaho. In addition, the
conditions decrease the health and the range of lodge people and thus, there is increased
susceptibility of the fire. The activities that the Idaho citizens depend on in forest are
significantly affected because wild fires are recurrent (Vallero 2014). The forest activities
contribute to the economic growth in Idaho and thus, the economic growth rate is economically
affected. The impacts of global warming in Idaho are associated with the decreased productivity
output in both forests and farm activities.
Water resources are significant in Idaho because farmers rely on irrigation for food
production. The Idaho republic rely on surface water but ground water is an essential supply of
water. The tributaries to the Colombia River drain Idaho making the farming activities a
challenge because water supply is insufficient (Jacobson &Jacobson 2012). The reservoirs and
dams control the decrease in augment summer flows and flooding to enhance irrigation activities.
The current status of runoff in Idaho is triggered by spring melts in snow and accumulation on
winter snow.

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Snowfalls are reduced during warmer climates, the winter rains are more and increased
rates of evaporation. During warmer weather, there are decreased water supplies and lower
reservoir storage. The increase in evaporation is due to high temperatures and is ascertained to
the lower levels of water in lakes and streams during summer (Matyssek 2013). The summer
conditions would mean higher competition for water in Idaho and the farming activities are
largely affected. Therefore, climate warm decreases the level of waters during the summer
season. The snowpack melts faster and drainage in streams increase during winter season but
gradually, decreases during the summer season .Furthermore, the increase in temperatures
decrease the water levels in Idaho during the summer. The farming activities in Idaho are
affected by the lower levels of water during the summer season. Global warming contributes the
adoption of greenhouses to increase the productivity in Idaho.
Iran has a developing economy and thus industrialized activities are accountable for the
increased levels of carbon monoxide, for instance, in Tehran. The consumption of fossil fuels is
higher in Iran and therefore the release of contaminated gaseous substances escalate the levels of
carbon in the atmosphere(Akhtar &Palagiano 2018). The increased rate of carbon is responsible
weakening of the immune system and thus the human body remains weak. Presently, death rate
has been reported to have increased in Iran due to the industrialized activities that increase
carbon that in turn weakens the immune system.
Conclusion
In summary, the conservation of environment is a collective responsibility to ensure
balanced ecosystem. Human activities that increase the contamination of the environment,
certainly air pollution should be minimized through the adoption of various energy plans. The

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adoption of environment friendly energy sources will account for lower level of carbon that is
accountable for global warming and increased death rates. Global warming has impacts that
range from uncertainty of productivity patterns in Idaho and increased wildfires. As a developing
country, Iran should adopt different source of energy, for instance, harnessing solar energy that
has carbon elements. Moreover, the government should support the application of harmless
energy sources through the facilitation of research and providing subsidies for the development
of such firms.

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