As we have learned more about the environmental impacts on your personal health
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As we have learned more about the environmental impacts on your personal health this week, I think you will find the following video interesting. After watching post your thoughts on the following to the discussion board:
1. The video you watched. (3pts)
2. The places you have lived and what type of environmental issues you may have been exposed to. (3 pts)
3. Respond to two other student posts. (4 pts)
An Urgent Call to Protect the Worlds Third Pole
response 1 Brenda This TED Talk was a great example to spread climate change awareness. Our environment is slowly dying while most of our population does not pay attention to this or tries to be helpful in a way. Growing up I had the chance to live in California and Baja California, Mexico. Since both of these places are basically close to each other, the main environmental issue I have seen are fires. There have been many fires that have been up for days and sometimes even weeks. We might have the privilege to live near the beach, but these fires affect the few greens we have. This is why we have to be more cautious when we build bonfires and make sure they are fully off or for those who smoke, be more aware where you throw a used cigarette away.
response 2 kareema
The video talks about the third pole region which covers over 5 million square kilometers and stretches from Afghanistan in the west to China in the east. I am from a region that was in ancient times the cradle of the first human civilizations and was called Mesopotamia ، land between the two rivers, in reference to the two great rivers, the Tigris and the Euphrates. The Tigris River is the only source of drinking water for the city of Baghdad, which has a population of about 8 million. Until the year 1980, the ُTigris river water was of high purity and free of pollutants. The factories built on both sides of the river and the sewage treatment units were working efficiently before their waste was discharged into the river. Unfortunately, many sewage plants were disrupted as a result of the many wars Iraq fought, as well as the years of economic sanctions imposed on Iraq, resulting in 1.5 million cubic meters of polluted liquid waste being thrown into the river every day from factories, refineries, power plants, and hospitals. As a result of this situation, the water of the Tigris River was polluted with high levels of heavy metals, especially lead and cadmium, in addition to the biological contamination due to the presence of pathogens. The presence of these pollutants led to a clear rise in the rates of infection with typhoid, chickenpox, kidney failure, the spread of hemorrhagic fever and amoeba, and cases of dysentery, which are linked to the contaminated drinking water supply.
