Rendering: week 10 – Pollution.

Rendering: week 10 – Pollution.

The article discusses the situation of loss of wheat in Europe as a result of pollution from America. It was published on 31^st, January 2012 by Rob Waugh in ‘Daily Mail”. It reports at length taht man-made air pollution from north America causes Europe to lose 1.2 million tones of wheat a year.

Speaking about this problem it’s necessary to note that ozone pollution, produced by coal fired stations and cars, travels between continents with the help of wind much more easily that thought. Dr. Steve Arnold said that air pollution plays a significant role in reducing global crop productivity, leading this situation to an international level.

Analyzing the situation in different continents it’s necessary to emphasize that major crops such as wheat, maize, soy, cotton, potato and rice are damaged by pollution. It’s very unlikely that the wheat loss in Europe is the biggest worldwide.

There are indications that ground-level ozone is harmful to humans as well as plants. It’s an open secret that there are lot’s of people who suffer from different illnesses caused by this environmental problem.

On the one hand, the pollution could endanger the security of the food supply in future. But on the other hand, Dr. Lisa Emberson suggests us to be taken more seriously to this global problem as a threat to food security. She believes we are to reduce emissions of ozone forming gases across the globe.

Giving appraisal of the situation it’s necessary to point out that Michael Hollaway used a computer model to predict reduction in global surface ozone. He and the research team were able to predict impacts on staple food crops.

There is no mention about the author’s opinion, but I can say that this problem has been unknown up to recent experience. But it’s very impotent nowadays. Personally I think that we have to reduce pollution, not to harm nature. The Earth is not our planet, vise were, we are its guests. That’s why we do all our best to protect it and help it to rebuild resources and e ecosystems.

If  you don't think about the future you will not have it.

J.Galsworthy