Healthy and balanced natural systems are essential for supporting life on this planet. Society relies on nature to provide us with the resources for our survival: air, water, food, fibers, medicines, and building materials. Children need to grow up aware of the nature around them. As human beings we have a responsibility to preserve the actual value of nature both for ourselves and for future generations.

In recent decades, there has been a growing realization that the quality of our air, water, soil, and food affect the quality of our health and of our lives. This ranges from increased allergies, respiratory disease, and cancers to the disorder of the body’s hormone and fertility systems, and premature death. The causes of our various environment-heal

th problems are numerous and include pollution from transport, agricultural activities, industrial processes, domestic waste matter and waste management.

Studies done in Maine, Vermont, and Minnesota revealed widespread abnormalities in frogs. The frogs were found with an extra third leg, twelve toes, additional bones in their feet and increased sheaths of skin. Carol Meteyer, veterinarian pathologist, said: “They can’t stretch their legs. It’s like a tight band of skin that holds the ankle up to the hips, and so the can’t really jump very well. It also causes rotation of that leg, which causes them to jump in the wrong direction. They think they are going straight, and they’re actually going off at an angle.” (“Deformed, para, 6).

For many years, different kinds of fertilizers and chemicals were used in agriculture to obtain the best crops. Soil, much like every living creature needs vitamins, needs to replenish its nutrients. These nutrients are found in healthy soil, and it helps grow and protect the plants from insects, bugs, and weed killers.

Aerosols are the collective name of firm or liquid particles, which contaminate the air. Firm components of aerosols, in some cases, are especially dangerous to living creatures, because they are linked to the cause of specific diseases. In the atmosphere, aerosol pollution is perceived as smoke, fog, haze or fumes. Plenty of dust particles are also formed during the industrial activity of many businesses and people.

Sandra Steingraber, cancer survivor, gave a speech to about 150 college students at Pennsylvania State University about the concerns of toxin reduction. Steingraber said: “I speak with the urgency of a cancer survivor, not a scientist, when I say we should act now” (Reeves, para, 3). The pesticides and herbicides are the holders of the toxins that cause cancer. Steingraber stated that some breast milk contains more than 200 toxins that are known to cause cancer.

Foods grown without pesticides can absorb the pesticides from the soil, or be exposed to them while growing from the air or even during packing and transportation. Some foods, such as squash and carrots, may actually contain concentrated chlorinated compounds from the soil while growing (432).

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