Greenplanet gives you the opportunity to plant one or more trees without leaving your house, thereby taking part in saving our planet from an environmental disaster. Our team are people who have a great desire to save millions of human lives that die every year due to air pollution. Our task is to enable every person to change the world with their own hands - to make the air on Earth purer for all mankind.
The influence of atmospheric pollution on health.
In the 21st century, pollution atmoser has become a global problem No. 1. According to the World Health Organization, approximately 3.7 million people die annually due to air pollution. The total number of deaths due to exposure to polluted air both in the premises and in the atmosphere reaches 7 million per year.
Various substances that pollute the air affect the state of human health differently, causing various diseases. The presence in the inspired air of carbon monoxide (carbon monoxide) prevents the flow of oxygen into the blood, which leads to the death of a person. A clear correlation between atmospheric pollution and respiratory diseases is established: bronchitis, tracheitis, asthma, pneumonia, and lung cancer. The death rate from lung cancer has doubled in the past 10 years.
Pollution of the atmosphere affects all natural components, causes changes in the ozone layer, the greenhouse effect, the formation of acid rain and smog.
Ultimately, this leads to a reduction in areas suitable for agriculture (which is hunger), leading to an expansion of the range of vectors of dangerous diseases.
The main causes of air pollution.
1. Deforestation. The active use of forest resources has led to the fact that today in the world only 22% of forests are not changed under the influence of human activities. Annually 13-14 million hectares of forest are cut down. The replacement of forests in the world is only at the level of 3-5 million hectares per year. The disorderly deforestation of forests, and most importantly - their poor restoration leads to the transformation of millions of hectares of fertile land into deserts.
2. Forest fires. The UN News Center reports that annually in the world fires destroy more than 35 million hectares of forest land. Approximately half of these areas are burning in Africa. In 95 out of 100 cases people are guilty of causing fires.
3. Exhaust gases of cars. At present, 40-60% of atmospheric pollution is caused by cars, due to a sharp increase in their number. On average, about 1 kg of exhaust gas containing carbon oxides, sulfur, nitrogen, various hydrocarbons and lead compounds is released per day of the car.
4. Industrial emissions. According to the International Energy Agency, industrial emissions of carbon dioxide from 2014 are 32.1 gigaton per year. These statistics do not include emissions from industrial processes in industry.
The solution to the problem is mass planting of trees.
Trees are called the lungs of the planet. Thanks to natural processes such as photosynthesis, they purify the air of dust, various extraneous impurities, pathogenic organisms, effectively enrich the air with oxygen, necessary for the breathing of all living on Earth. Photosynthesis causes natural cycles of carbon, oxygen and other elements and provides a material and energy basis for life on our planet.
Greenplanet is an application that will allow all not indifferent people to improve the ecology of the planet on which we live.
Anyone using Greenplanet can plant one or more trees without even leaving their home. To do this, install and run the application. Choose the tree species (oak, maple, spruce, pine, thuja) and quantity, then place an order. Our task is to take an order and plant a tree on your behalf, and also to establish a sign near your tree with your name and country of residence. For the report, when the tree is planted, a video will be shot for you, which will be posted on our YouTube channel.
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