Question

Development Goals & Environmental Health

What environmental health concern would you prioritize for your proximate community? Are those priorities different? Why or why not?

Answer 1

Recent days we were facing many environmental issues, one of the most important is forestfire. Forestfire has great impact on environment. The world's maximum oxygen supply comes from forest. Forest fire releases carbon dioxide and other gases into the atmosphere and it contribute to global warming. These particle from fire carried through long distance away by affecting the quality of air, aquatic ecosystem, the effect of gases cause acidification of lakes, coastal water, and affect most organism those depend on ecosystem, and also make a major impact on snow and ice thereby increasing global warming. Most of the livelihood are depend on forest only we get most of the resources like plant based food, plant which has a medicinal value. This has a great impact on human physical and psychological health.

As prevention is better than cure, a preventive program like early monitoring, tree planting done through large scale and by setting new policy to maintain environment stability, conserving nature, increasing forest and tree cover, and specialspecial precaution taken during fire season.