God gave humankind the role of manager over the natural world. This task includes the care of all life on earth, not just human life. It requires thought for future generations not just our own. A selfish use of earth’s resources can do irreparable damages.
1. Radioactive Waste
As nuclear fuels are increasingly used for energy, the radioactive by-products have to be disposed of. Sometimes they are dumped at sea. No disposal method has yet been found that is guaranteed harmless in the long-term and radioactive long-term is very long indeed.
2.Dangerous Chemicals
Chemical factories are often built in populated ares where labor is plentiful. Relatively small mishaps can have disastrous consequences, as when a gas explosion in Mexico City, or a cloud of poison gas in Bhopal, India killed many hundred of people.
3. Water Pollution
River, lakes, and seas are sometimes poisoned by industrial waste and sometimes polluted by oil spillage. Seabirds, fish, and other marine life are gravely affected and the balance of nature is disturbed.
4. Air Pollution
Densely populated areas with many industries suffer a reduction in the quality of the air people breathe. This is not good for people or for natural life. Petrol fumes in some countries also have a high lead content that may damage children’s mental health.
5. Deforestation
The urgent need of wood products, especially for the paper industry temps countries short of cash to allow excessive tree felling. It takes years to replace a tree. Deforestation has catastrophic effects on soil fertility, and on the rich natural life of the forest.
6. Acid Rain
Power Station and some other industries discharge sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere. At certain concentrations, this returns to the earth in acid rain, which may fall hundred of miles from the point of discharge. Trees begin to die and rivers are poisoned.
7. Land Degradation
The soil can be used for short term gain so as to impoverish its future fertility. This can happen through over intensive farming and fertilization; or through burning manure and trees for domestic fuel, as in many poor countries.
8. Nuclear Testing
In the early days of testing nuclear weapons during the 1950s and 1960s, remote areas such as the pacific islands and Australian deserts were badly affected by fallout. Test-ban treaties have improve things but what could be the result of extending conflict into space?
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