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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.