Good morning everyone.

I feel honored to be selected to give a speech on

pollution. In this speech, I will try my best to explain to you all what pollution
is, its effects, and how it can be controlled.

Pollution is the presence of harmful contaminants in the natural

environment that cause harm and damage and leads to adverse changes.
Before blaming someone else for the pollution let us as a generation self
analyze ourselves. There is no one, in particular, we can blame for the
increase in pollution except humankind. We, humans, are responsible for the
increase of pollution in the environment. Throughout centuries as our
civilization progressed and found new ways to earn, learn and develop we
have exploited mother nature in a bigger way. The harmful substances and
the effluents released into the atmosphere by the factories, industries, and
household waste have made an impact on our environment.

As we all know there are three kinds of pollution and those are air, water,
and soil pollution. Air pollution is mostly caused due to the presence of
harmful substances and contaminants in the air. These harmful gasses are
released by vehicles, dust, dirt, and poisonous gasses from the
manufacturing factories. The use of vehicles or the products made at
factories may make our lives easy but it also has caused a lot of effects on
the environment. The harmful gasses released from vehicles and factories
cause a lot of respiratory diseases such as asthma, bronchitis, etc. The
harmful pollutants in the air can cause the ozone layer to deplete which
leads to the ultraviolet rays entering the earth’s atmosphere which can cause
serious health problems, even cancer. Radioactive pollution is a product of
air pollution that has a serious effect on living organisms. Some of the
harmful effects of Radioactive pollution are skin cancer, burning of the skin,
etc.

Water pollution is caused when toxic substances get mixed in water bodies
such as rivers, lakes, and oceans. The toxic substances could be chemical
fertilizers from the agricultural field or the poisonous Industrial waste,
sewage water. marine dumping etc. This waste generated from different
sources is directly drained into the large water bodies which get mixed in the
drinking water and causes water pollution. The toxics that get mixed with
water bodies have bacteria, germs, etc that can be life-threatening to all
living organisms. Due to water pollution, the amount of drinking water is
reducing every day which is causing a lot of problems for everyone. Similarly,
soil pollution is the contamination of the soil with toxic pollutants. The toxic
substances could be the chemicals present in fertilizers, pesticides, and
industrial chemicals.

Though out we receive the benefits of using the products from industries
knowingly and unknowingly we are the reason for exploiting the earth. We
overuse the resources provided by mother nature and then are so careless
to not think about the future. One example of overuse of the resources of
nature is the use of fertilizers to increase the production of crops. Though
there is an increase in the production of crops due to fertilizers it has also
become the reason for land and water pollution due to the presence of the
chemicals in the fertilizers. We can also give the example of Industries to get
us products that ease our life but the toxic gasses released from the factories
are destroying our beloved earth.

Now people may ask how can we correct things? how can we make sure that
we don’t exploit nature?. As a community, it is our sole responsibility to fight
against pollution by using eco-friendly things instead of using the non-
biodegradable substances. Pollution of any kind cannot be eliminated
completely but it can be controlled. We can overcome pollution by taking
small measures in our day-to-day lives. We should be aware of small
preventive measures that could help in controlling pollution. Do not throw
domestic waste near the water bodies, instead throw the garbage at the
garbage disposal site. Avoid using vehicles as it causes pollution. Carpooling
and bike pooling are the best methods of reducing the usage of many
vehicles, electric cars and bikes could be used instead of the vehicles which
run on petrol and diesel.

To conclude this speech I want to say that every kind of pollution has a
negative impact on the environment, animals and human lives. We as
humans should take important steps for a better future for our grand kids . A
lot of innocent lives are put in danger because of pollution so we should take
part and control this problem. Together we can control pollution. Thank you
for listening