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● Worsening of existing lung and heart

POLLUTION problems, such as asthma
● Increased risk of heart attack

★ caused by pollutants
EFFECTS OF AIR POLLUTION ON THE
- disturbs our ecosystem and the balance
ENVIRONMENT
in the environment
1. Acid rain
2. Ozone depletion
POLLUTANTS - key elements or components of
3. Crop and forest damage
pollution which are generally waste materials of
4. Global Climate change
different forms.
5. Effects on wildlife

I. AIR POLLUTION COMMON SOLUTIONS FOR PREVENTING &

MINIMIZING AIR POLLUTION
- can harm us when it accumulates in the
air in high enough concentrations in ● Minimize the Use of Fossil Fuel Powered
areas where urban smog, particle Automobiles
pollution, and toxic pollutants ● Be Mindful of Energy Consumption
● Become an Advocate for Clean Energy
CAUSES OF AIR POLLUTION
II. WASTE DISPOSAL
1. Vehicle Exhaust Fumes.
2. Fossil Fuel-Based Power Plants
WASTE - can be man-made / natural waste
3. Exhaust from Industrial Plants and
Factories
MAN-MADE WASTE - materials or substances
4. Construction and demolition and
we have used, and no longer want or need
Activities
anymore, or that has become unusable
5. Agricultural Activities
6. Natural Causes
WHERE DO MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTES COME
7. Household Activities
FROM?

EFFECTS OF AIR POLLUTION ON HEALTH

● Residential - 56.7%
Long term:
● Commercial - 27.1 %
● cancer
● Market - 18.3%
● damage to the immune, neurological,
● Institutional - 12.1%
reproductive, and respiratory systems.
● Other Commerial - 8.8%
● death
● Industrial - 4.1%
Exposure to high levels:
● Irritation of the eyes, nose, and throat
● Wheezing, coughing, chest tightness, and
breathing difficulties

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of Science and Technology, 1,717 metric tons of

ADVERSE IMPACT OF WASTE ON food is wasted each day.
ENVIRONMENT AND HUMAN HEALTH
EFFECT OF FOOD CONSUMPTION

ENVIRONMENT HUMAN HEALTH

● climate change
poor waste collection ● Eutrophication
● acid rain
environmental &
marine pollution favour cholera and ● depletion of biodiversity
vector-borne diseases ● it is also a considerable drain on other
block water drains such as malaria and resources, such as nutrients, land area,
dengue. energy, and water.
flooding

hazardous solid & liquid waste THE EXTREMES OF FOOD CONSUMPTION IN

THE PHILIPPINES
harmful to both

1. The problem is with unlimited rice and

TOXIC WASTE - chemical waste from industrial, eat all you can
chemical, or biological processes that can cause
2. What a Pinggang Pinoy should like
injury or death when it is either ingested or
3. Learning on an empty stomach
absorbed by the skin

SOLUTION TO EXCESSIVE FOOD

WAYS TO REDUCE LANDFILL WASTE
CONSUMPTION

1. Reduce Food Waste

1. Reduce Food Waste
2. Buy Things with Less Packaging
2. Improve Existing Infrastructural
3. Boycott Plastic Water Bottles
Programs
4. Just Don’t Buy as Much Stuff
5. Recycle
IV. DEVELOPMENT
6. Composting
7. Buy rechargeable batteries
★ converting natural land into a developed
one
III. FOOD CONSUMPTION
- industrialization and urbanization are all
part of it
- many AREN’T consuming enough
nutritious food HOW DOES THE DEVELOPMENT AFFECT THE
- many ARE over consuming highly ENVIRONMENT?
processed food (sugar, fat, salt)
● Degradation or destruction of natural
IN THE PHILIPPINES, according to the Food and environment
Nutrition Research Institute of the Department ● Health challenges

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● Increased Pollution CONSEQUENCES OF THE OVEREXPLOITATION

● Industrialization and urbanization OF NATURAL RESOURCES

AMONG THE SERVICES PROVIDED TO THE ● disappearance of flora & fauna =

LOCAL COMMUNITY THROUGH DEVELOPMENT extinction of species
● International Union for Conservation of
● Parks Nature (IUCN) says that, currently, more
● School than 31,000 species/30M animals are
● Commercial Center threatened with extinction
● Improved living standards
● Education TOP 3 NATURAL RESOURCES BEING
● Improved technology and infrastructure DEPLETED AND WHAT ARE THE
● Health CONSEQUENCES

V. RESOURCES RESOURCES CAUSES CONSEQUEN

CES

RESOURCE - a substance in the environment Water Increased Drinking

that is useful to people is economically and irrigation, water
roads and shortage
technologically feasible to access and socially
infrastructure
acceptable to use
Oil Industrial Less
boom. Transportatio
2 TYPES OF NATURAL RESOURCES
Increased n, Higher
RENEWABLE NON-RENEWABLE population prices

inexhaustible limited (nauubos) Forests Urbanization, Soil erosion,

(di-nauubos) Illegal logging Global
Warming,
Extinction of
Human beings are depleting the planet's natural species and
resources and standards of living will begin to loss of
decline by 2030 unless immediate action is biodiversity,
taken. Flooding and
drought

The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) warns

that the current overexploitation of natural SOLUTIONS TO SAVE OUR NATURAL
resources is generating an enormous deficit, as RESOURCES
20% more than can be regenerated is consumed
each year and this percentage is growing ● Reduce carbon dioxide emissions by
steadily. buying energy efficient appliances
● Cycle, walk or use public transportation
whenever possible

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● Save trees by going paperless or by using

only recycled products V. OVERPOPULATION
● Plant a tree wherever you can
● Participate in tree conservation projects
★ the state whereby the human population
● Turn of all appliances when not in use.
rises to an extent exceeding the carrying
● Conserve Electricity
capacity of the ecological setting
● Fix leaky faucets and use recycled water
for flushing your toilet
CAUSES OF OVERPOPULATION
● Stop polluting the ocean
● Harvest rainwater when you can
● Poverty
● Poor Contraceptive Use
VI. WATER USE ● Fertility Treatment
● Immigration
WATER ● Species Extinction

★ one of the most vital natural resources EFFECTS OF OVERPOPULATION

for all life on Earth.
- availability and quality of water always ● Depletion of natural resources and
have played an important part in climate change
determining their quality of life ● More intensive farming practices
- less than 1 percent is only available for ● Lower Life Expectancy in the Fastest
human use (the rest are too inaccessible) ● Growing Countries
● Increased Emergence of New
CAUSES OF WATER SHORTAGE ● Epidemics and Pandemics
● Increased habitat loss
● Increase of population due to excessive ● Increased global warming
and unsustainable human consumption ● Less freedom, more restrictions
● Non-sustainable domestic practices such ● Elevated Crime Rate
as leaving taps running when water is not
needed and needs to be stopped POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS

EFFECTS OF WATER SHORTAGE 1. Better Sex Education

2. Access to Contraceptives
● Poorer communities and informal 3. Family Planning Program
settlements still lack access to potable 4. Education on the Subject
water systems
● Water restrictions imposed across the
board
● Negative impact on greening and
domestic gardening initiatives due to
water restrictions

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