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DAMAGE OF THE ENVIRMENT

INTRODUCTION :Indoor air pollution poses many challenges to the health professional. This booklet offers an overview of those challenges, focusing on acute conditions, with patterns that point to particular agents and suggestions for appropriate remedial action.

The individual presenting with environmentally associated symptoms is apt to have been exposed to airborne substances originating not outdoors, but indoors. Studies from the United States and Europe show that persons in industrialized nations spend more than 90 percent of their time indoors. For infants, the elderly, persons with chronic diseases, and most urban residents of any age, the proportion is probably higher. In addition, the concentrations of many pollutants indoors exceed those outdoors. The locations of highest concern are those involving prolonged, continuing exposure - that is, the home, school, and workplace.

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Advantages:

Well established Eco-tourism

has minimal impact on the environment

builds awareness and respect for the local culture and environment

offers positive experiences for all

employs and benefits local people

educates visitors by an on-site visit about the local political, social and environmental issues.

Money from the tourists go back into the conservation of the area.

A wildlife habitat, for example, is protected

Visitors carry new ideas back to influence their own environment

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Disadvantages:

Badly managed Eco-tourism

If the site is badly managed there can be problems of

overcrowding constructions

pollution of the habitat

unlimited numbers of tourists

The site becoming a "honey pot" area. The site becomes over-visited.

Traffic congestion

Erosion where cars park illegally

Footpath erosion, soil loss

Tourists don't understand or care what eco-tourism really is

Criticism as "greenwashing" where the environment is used as a bait to attract tourists

Examples include establishing a huge energy intensive hotel in a splendid jungle setting with no understanding of sustainable development or the correct provision for the disposal of waste and sewage etc.

Examples include establishing a tourist resort which displaces the local people and illegally keeps endangered animals in cages to attract visitors (Nature's Sacred Paradise).

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CONCLUSION: Both of these instances will have apocalyptic consequences if they were to happen, but scientist have reason to believe that both are possible if pollution continues to grow and does not receive any attention. In either case this shows how serious it has become when it comes to the contamination of the environment, a possible end to the world all because of the lack of consideration of the environment.

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