The very air (Oxygen) that sustains man's life is under a serious threat. He's the cause: engaging in activities that emit hazardous pollutants into the atmosphere. Unknowingly or knowingly, he breathes them in and contracts health complications- internal organs being affected the most.
From waste deposit sites, fumes from vehicles and industrial plants, and the stench emanating from choked gutters mostly in the country's urban areas, with improper maintenance strategies, is greatly contributing to the unsafe air many Ghanaians are breathing in.
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The air in some localities or a part of it is contaminated with the smell of urine, human excreta and decomposed animal remains. And surprisingly, people sell their goods in such an atmosphere. What a pity!
Everyone must be aware that he/she is vulnerable and not immune to that which comes from above. The environment, the atmosphere, the air we breathe in, are all above us. Any unnatural means, dominantly through pollution, which comes into contact with the environment and the air, threatens man's survival. Since man is a biological or a natural being, so to is the environment. Man is himself the environment. As he takes care to love and nourish himself, so must he do same to the environment.
It is often said that "destroy the last plant and the very last man dies". Doesn't this wise saying echo a sense of urgency for people all over the world to protect their environment? The world today has been recording high degrees of strange health complications than in "traditional" times. Modernity and its mind-blowing inventions comes with advantages and disadvantages. The latter, however, outweighs the former... an opinion, so what of yours?
Those living in the cities despite their "knowledge on healthy living", wonder how and why most village folks live much longer. The truth is, their interactions with the environment is more favourable than to city dwellers.
Let's stop polluting the atmosphere so that we can enjoy fresh breathing air.
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