| Unfortunately, man's activities have degraded his own | | | | problem. People solved their sewage problems by |
| environment. His interference with the ecological | | | | using the pits. These are the areas in the critical limits |
| balance has opened the eyes of the world. Man must | | | | of pollution because of their past history as free |
| face environmental issues and bring his activities back | | | | dumping grounds. The place mentioned includes |
| in balance with the natural world. Humans disrupt the | | | | grassland, stream, river, lake and ocean. This has |
| ecological balance through a lot of ways. One of | | | | become the guiding rule since people thought that |
| which is through pollution. Pollution is contamination or | | | | these dumping grounds including the atmosphere would |
| addition of impurities to the environment. Generally it is | | | | never be overburdened and would always function as |
| defined as any process by which humans destroy the | | | | they had done before. |
| quality of their surroundings. The term could be relative. | | | | Little did people realize that there are critical limits to |
| For example your teacher might not be accused of | | | | pits whether it's grassland, stream, river, pond, lake and |
| polluting his environment when he smokes cigarette in | | | | gigantic atmosphere. And also, little did people know |
| front of his house, but it would be different if he | | | | that if these limits were exceeded, the natural |
| started smoking inside a crowded bus. | | | | functions of the pits would be destroyed. That is why it |
| Earlier in human history, people leave their wastes | | | | is very advisable to do cautious steps to keep away |
| wherever they dropped them. Also they leave their | | | | from this pollution. Through our own little ways, we |
| food scraps and bones where they had eaten. | | | | could eradicate the harmful effects of pollution. There |
| Bacterial action returned the minerals to the soil. When | | | | is no other day but today. Now is the perfect time to |
| people began to increase in number and live in | | | | start a new way of living. |
| communities, waste disposal became a greater | | | | |