The Environment And Lung Diseases: Clinical Impact of a dysfunctional ecosystem.

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Published: 2020-11-30
DOI: https://doi.org/10.82222/njcd.vol2no1.50
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Tree Planting, Respiratory Diseases, Ecosystem, Air Pollution, Atmosphere

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I. J. Ekpoh
Department of Environmental Resource Management, University of Calabar, Calabar.

Abstract

In the face of increased air pollution caused by human activities through massive fossil fuel consumption in automobiles, power plants, industrial processes, together with recent historic forest fires in the Amazon forest of Brazil, California and parts of Australia, the atmospheric environment has become a dangerous biome for human habitation. Cases of respiratory tract infections and lung diseases have attained epidemic proportions. The current case of covid-19 which started since December 2019, has added a new name to the list of severe respiratory diseases and has even attained a pandemic proportion, in terms of global spread and impact. This paper attempted an identification of some of the major air pollutants and their sources (both man-made and natural), their impacts on human health and well-being, as well as, proffer possible solutions for achieving a less-polluted atmosphere. Tree planting, clean energy sources and zero

gas flaring were some of the remedies put forward.

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Author Biography

I. J. Ekpoh, Department of Environmental Resource Management, University of Calabar, Calabar.

Adjunct Professor, Department of Public Health, University of Calabar

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Ekpoh, I. J. (2020). The Environment And Lung Diseases: Clinical Impact of a dysfunctional ecosystem. Nigerian Journal of Chest Diseases, 2(1), 54-63. https://doi.org/10.82222/njcd.vol2no1.50

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