The Role of Awareness and Education in reducing the Environmental problems

Yahya Al-Sakini, Abeer

	The Role of Awareness and Education in reducing the Environmental problems
Al-Ma'mon College Journal
Article 1, Volume 0, Issue 25, 2018, Pages 44-62
Author
Abeer Yahya Al-Sakini
Abstract
The universal, regional and local interest in environment issues has increased, for its direct influence on human, due to the aggravation of the problem of environment pollution. This encouraged the people concerned to pay attention to the environment and environmental awareness of people starting from family, school and university by setting a correct way to the use and exploit the environment in a perfect way, avoiding the drainage of natural resources whether generate or not, by applying laws and rules concerned with environment. Generally, the Arab countries suffer from the lack of environment awareness and education among the members of society which eventually led to the aggravation of environment problem, specially after the industrial revolution in Europe and other advanced countries. Those problems have an effect on air, water and soil by polluting them with poisonous materials. Air pollution is considered as the most dangerous one as it is direct to the breathing process which is indispensable to human beings. Air consists of a number of gases pollution is the dangerous increase of gas rate ten times beyond normal rate, for example that the Co and Co2 exhausting from cars, factory fumes and the incomplete burning of solid waste, as well as Nitro-Oxide and lead which cause harm to the respiratory system and lungs during breathing. Air pollution also has caused climactic changes worldwide , like the sharp rise and in fall temperature between summer and winter, in additim to food and droughts in many parts of the world . As for water pollution ,it is not less dangerous than air pollution. Water becomes hard , impure and full of microbes and salts which make it polloted and as a result dangerous to human life. Soil pollution, is a result of the use of chemical fertilizers and insecticides in the treatment of plant diseases ,the two processes definitely endanger plant life and eventually the life of human beings who feed on them . During the last ten years, Iraq was exposed to great environment problems including different aspect of life which required payirg attention environmental awareness and education and their role in dealing with many negative sides through media and introducing the subject((environment))within the curriculum for all stndy stages, from primary to academic levels so as to prevent the dangers of pollution and to build up an environmentally- cultured generation

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