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Mitigation of Dangers from Natural and Anthropogenic HazardsPollution

Mitigation of Dangers from Natural and Anthropogenic Hazards: Pollution [Anthropogenic pollution is a danger to otherwise healthy populations. Air may be polluted with potentially toxic heavy metals and fine-size particulates <2.5 μm, or gases/aerosols that when inhaled over time will cause sickness. Heavy metals (e.g., lead Pb, arsenic As, mercury Hg, cadmium Cd) or sulfuric acid (H2SO4) as aerosols ingested through respiration or deposited with rainfall can poison people and damage soils and thus harm food security. When food crops grown in polluted soils absorb one or more potentially toxic metals, they may not be edible because overtime, the toxin can bioaccumulate in consumers organs to health threatening concentrations. Mitigation can be achieved if sources of the dangerous emissions such as coal-fired power plants, smelters, battery factories and many other industries install and continually use and maintain emission control/capture equipment (chemical scrubbers and particulate precipitators). This can be mandatory and effective if government legislation demanding installation, use, and maintenance of such equipment is passed and the law enforced with unannounced visits by inspectors with the power to fine or close down a law-breaking operation. From a perspective of long-term benefits versus costs to do reduce pollution, the health benefit to populations, societal stability, and uninterrupted work productivity will far outweigh the costs, use, and maintenance of the pollution control equipment.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Mitigation of Dangers from Natural and Anthropogenic HazardsPollution

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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
ISBN
978-3-319-38874-8
Pages
79 –85
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-38875-5_15
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Abstract

[Anthropogenic pollution is a danger to otherwise healthy populations. Air may be polluted with potentially toxic heavy metals and fine-size particulates <2.5 μm, or gases/aerosols that when inhaled over time will cause sickness. Heavy metals (e.g., lead Pb, arsenic As, mercury Hg, cadmium Cd) or sulfuric acid (H2SO4) as aerosols ingested through respiration or deposited with rainfall can poison people and damage soils and thus harm food security. When food crops grown in polluted soils absorb one or more potentially toxic metals, they may not be edible because overtime, the toxin can bioaccumulate in consumers organs to health threatening concentrations. Mitigation can be achieved if sources of the dangerous emissions such as coal-fired power plants, smelters, battery factories and many other industries install and continually use and maintain emission control/capture equipment (chemical scrubbers and particulate precipitators). This can be mandatory and effective if government legislation demanding installation, use, and maintenance of such equipment is passed and the law enforced with unannounced visits by inspectors with the power to fine or close down a law-breaking operation. From a perspective of long-term benefits versus costs to do reduce pollution, the health benefit to populations, societal stability, and uninterrupted work productivity will far outweigh the costs, use, and maintenance of the pollution control equipment.]

Published: Jun 24, 2016

Keywords: Radioactive Fallout; Offshore Drilling; Radioactive Water; Affect Food Security; Pollution Control Equipment

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