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Impacts: Contamination of food leading to food shortage
A combined event of (a) free flow and emission of non biodegradable industrial discharge and noise disturbances due to usage of heavy machineries; (b) illegal dumping and spraying of toxic and hazardous chemicals on land and water; and (c) mismanagement in regulation of treatment and control of heat and radioactive substances; will lead to high density toxicity concentration on soil, water and air. The impacts of this are:
Fertile land becoming poisonous for living organisms underground and agriculture practice, nutrients lost, locked up or becomes toxic
Aquatic ecosystem depletes further and non-consumable water supplies noxious fumes and gas permeates, blanketing atmosphere
Detrimental health to psychological and physiological being of organisms in ecosystems
This situation continues to the rise of mortality rate of domesticated animals, failure of reproduction, deterioration on performance of superior breed, and failure of cultivation of crops which are inedible. This is also due to rapid mutation of deleterious genes; deterioration on metabolic and physiology functions of systems in plants and animals. Finally, as a result, there will be low productivity of food population; occurrence of starvation and dehydration, and if severe, exponential increase in mortality rate of floras and faunas worldwide.
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