Saturday, 31 October 2015
Saturday, 24 October 2015
ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE
http://www.antitb.org.hk/en/booklet5-d.html
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4R Concept : Reduce , Reuse ,Replace
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1.
Reduce
Reduce the use of unnecessary material and enery. Firstly ,
buy the thing you really need and bring our own bag while shopping . Secondly,
buy home care product with family size , reduce the use of tissue paper ,reduce
disposable eating utensils and use environmental-friendly material
2.
Replace
Replace goods which are harmful to the environment by environmental
friendly ones. For example , buy returnable bottled drinks or we also can store
food in boxes instead of using plastic wrapping films and use rechargeable
batteries or AC electricity instead of disposable battery
3.
Reuse
Reuse resources if possible for example ,use both side of paper reduce
plastic bags and containers .
4.
Recycle
Classify and recycle garbage. Garbage could be separated and collected by
contractors and recycled into new materials/products finally . Advantage for
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resources to be sustained continuously .
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Saturday, 10 October 2015
Environmental Issues
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/23/malaysia-air-pollution-2013_n_3484964.html
http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Nation/2015/09/02/Air-Quality-in-Peninsular-Malaysia/
Air Pollution
Nowadays,
either we realise it or not environmental pollution is increasing rapidly
regarding to the economic development and industrialisation activities. As we
know, pollution can harm the population of the human being instead all the
creatures in our planet. Hence, this issue become common and it’s happening
everyday all over the world. The most common type of pollution is land, air,
and water.
And
one of the air pollution that just happens is haze that caused by the weather
and by the forest fires in Indonesia. According to this issue, there is a lot
of negative feedback and bad implication happens to the human community. There
are two types of air pollution’s, natural pollution and pollution caused by
humans. Therefore, we must do something about the air pollution before its
getting worse in the future which can affect the people, plants, animals,
weather, buildings, climate and everything in this world. So, we must figure
out what we have to do and play our role as a human being that lived in this earth.
In
my opinion, the main cause of this air pollution is by humans. There is an
illegal burning of forests and other land on Indonesia’s Sumatra Island. This
happening due to the clear spaces for oil palm plantations that will cause
smoke until it reach above the level considered hazardous. As the result, the
Prime Minister has agreed to declare emergency status in Muar and Ledang with
immediate effect. (Report from Reuters an international news agency). We can’t stop the pollution because it
out of our hand, but we need to cut down a lot pollution caused by humans.
As we know that haze happens due to the fires
of forest from land of Indonesia’s Sumatra Island. There for the government
must implement laws that will impose penalties when they detect
infringements of the rules. In addition, the government must take this issues
very seriously as it will affect other country that near to them. Besides we
need to raise public awareness regarding to an illegal burning of forest. For
example the society can do a report if there is an illegal burning.
Other
than that, in my opinion the government also needs to monitor their activities
especially involving agriculture such as plantations. For example there is an
officer that will guide and monitor them so that the company or agencies will
leads to right direction. They also can help the company or agencies by telling
them method on how to clearing spaces for oil palm plantations without burning
forest.
Due
to this air pollution, there are consequences happen. Such as respiratory
disease, chronic heart disease, can weaken the immune system and can also
affect the functioning of lungs. I think these implications can cause death if
there is no immediate action and doing nothing to prevent this issue. Other
than affect our health, haze also affects the airlines although it does not
gives fatal effect. For example, it will cause distraction in the railways
during the aircraft landed or take off.
I
also think that apart from the burning forest from Indonesia, there also other
factors that lead to air pollution. The main contributors are tobacco smoke,
power plant, emission from automotive, radioactive contamination, aerosol
sprays and so on. Air pollution in Malaysia falls into three categories, due to
exhaust gas from mobile emission sources such as motor vehicles that
principally in urban areas, haze caused by the weather and by forest fires in
Indonesia and also pollution caused by industrial activities.
This
haze also cause some of school in Malaysia need to closed temporarily when the
API reading bordering an unhealthy ozone. As the result, the school session
need to stop and this will affect the pupils when they have to miss the class.
I think this problem not really good for the pupils especially for them that
taking examination such as PMR (Penilaian Menengah Rendah) and SPM (Sijil
Pelajaran Malaysia).
In
conclusion, I think that all of us must play a good role to overcome air
pollution. We as the Malaysians should work together to control and reduce
pollution level. We have the responsibility to preserve and to protect our
country in order to achieve clean and healthy surroundings. Recently, media has
reported many cases of environmental pollution caused by irresponsible people,
with an increasing cases of illegal of dumping hazardous waste, toxic and
effluents not only harm the environment. Therefore, environmental factors and
ethics must be included in our daily activities. Since we cannot do anything
without our surroundings and its elements like air, water, and land, it is
absolutely necessary to do something to save our world for our next
generations.
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