Pollution and Health

Compare and Contrast the Effect of Globalisation On Developed and Developing Countries: Pollution and Health

Introduction

In ancient times, the relationship between human and nature was inequality, human was weak, They couldn't change nature and suffered from their limitations. With the coming of the industrial age and the rising level of human science and technology, the relationship began to change. Man became strong but nature became vulnerable object. A word "pollution" occurred in people's life, it contains air pollution, water pollution, soil pollution, even noise pollution.

Today, the environmental pollution has become a worldwide problem and aroused people attention, environmental degradation produces enormous pressure on human health. Any kind of human activities in certain scale would cause people's concerns about its medium and long-term effect on our environment either in the development of human beings or in economic growth and improve their lives, the biggest is the health effect of pollution. Certainly, there are some similarities and also differences between developed and developing countries, this also apples to health.

In recent generations, as the population has increased dramatically and the rapid development of industry, agriculture, economy. Many forms of pollution affect human health and our living environment both in developed and developing countries. In China, which has one of the world’s fastest growing economies, 2 million people die each year from the effects of air and water pollution, according to one recent estimate. But environmental threats to health are by no means limited to developing countries. In the United States, some 80 million people are exposed to levels of air pollution that can impair health. Nearly 100 countries, both developed and developing, still use leaded gasoline, unnecessarily exposing their citizens to a pollutant long known to cause permanent brain damage (World Resources, 1998-99). And...