One of the main conclusions of the European Environmental Agency is that
the European Union have to impose most ambitious new policy measures if
they want to achieve the objectives proposed for 2050. Although in recent years
the current legislation has improved a lot of water and air quality, these
measures are "insufficient" because there are still many challenges,
among which highlight the following ones as the most important:
Among the major European challenge we find the health of the population,
in danger for the atmospheric
pollution. Currently, over than the 20% of the European urban population is
living exposed to high levels of pollution, higher than those that the
legislation required. And important fact to remember is that exposure to high
levels of pollution was the responsible of 430.000 premature deaths in Europe
last year.
In second place, we find the need of reduce the emission of gases
that contribute to the greenhouse effect. And finally, the report also warn
about the exposure to traffic noise, the noise coming from the industrial
activities,... that also was the responsible of nearly 10.000 cases of
premature deaths in the community.
I think that is important to, among all, try to reduce our ecological footprint
because we are destroying our planet. In fact, the report warns us that if we
don't stop this, the natural phenomena will be more and more aggressive because
of the climate change, and this will lead to the pollution of the water, of the
air and also, of our health! For this, we must remedy the damage we are doing,
it's like we were digging our own graves: we are the only ones responsible for
climate change and also, were the only ones affected.
I know it's difficult to change our way of life because we are costumed
to this kind of life and probably, most of us think: "who care, when the
planet stop holding us I’ll be more than death". But this is not idea, we
are the responsible of what is happening and is in our hand stop this. It's not
necessary that one day to another you stop using your car, but there are plenty
of minimal things that you can do every day. For example, instead of poured
down toxic chemical wastes as paint, motor oil,... you can depose them in the
specific sites, you can by local goods that reduce the air pollution, I'm sure
you can use less electricity, lees water and also, produce less waste! All of
this are simple things that everybody can do in their daily routines so, if you
think that break the harm we are doing to our planet was a difficult thing, you
were wrong!
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