WHAT IS ENVIRONMENT

• Environment is the surrounding in which an organization operates, including air, water, land, natural resources, flora, fauna, human beings, and their interrelation.

• Surrounding in this context extend from within an organization to the global system.

CURRENT CONDITIONS OF THE ENVIRONMENT OF PLANET EARTH

WEATHER• Global warming and

extreme weather causing glaciers to melt, climate changes, rising sea levels, coastal damage, floods, drought, etc.

Drought

Endangered ozone layer

Acid rain

Greenhouse gas buildup

Polluted air from vehicles and industries

AIR

• In 23 Indian cities with million-plus populations; air pollution levels dangerously exceed WHO recommended health standards. A 1995 World Bank estimates that 40,000 people die

prematurely in India due to air pollution alone.

According to a study on pesticide residues conducted by the Industrial Toxicological Research Institute, high levels of pesticides have been found in just about everything necessary for life from food to air and water.

It is estimated that infants ingesting breast milk in Delhi receive roughly 12 times the daily allowable intake of DDT.

LAND• Poor land use,

• Clear cutting of forests and unplanned development in

catchments area, and fresh water sources, use of pesticides, dumping of waste is destroying our land.

This leads to destruction of natural soil habitat, loss of soil fertility and ultimately pollutes the ground water.

FORESTLess carbon dioxide removed from air

Less oxygen produced

Loss of plant and animal habitat

Soil erosion - floods

Irregularity of Rain

Mass Deforestation

ENERGY

• Can you imagine life without lights, fans, buses, cars, computers and television? May be after 100 years there will be no petroleum left.

Who is behind such environmental environmental problems of today?

MESSAGE FROM EARTH:

PLEASE HELP !

HUMANS

How environmental pollution affects us?

Health impact of air pollution