Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Electronic Pollution

Besides pollution around the world in terms of dangerous gases or toxic substances, humanity is now facing a 21st century problem, one much more closer to every modern society - Electronic pollution.



Televisions, computers, mobile phones, radios etc. All these electronic devices may not seem harmful at first sight. However, imagine millions of households multiplied by the number of electronic devices you have in your own household today, think of all the electronic emissions and radio signals.

Day by day this problem is slowly progressing right under our noses, as the air further saturates with satellite broadcasts and such. Wireless remote controls... Radiation from microwaves... These electronic devices have been created for our ease, yet the amount of emissions being emitted into the air every second may just threaten our health. This problem is not widely acknowledged, and society today is overly complacent about this issue.

Several known effects due to this rising issue includes 'psychological complaints including confusion, panic, paranoia, strong mood swings and violent or aggressive behaviour'


Perhaps this modern problem is being brushed aside due to the sheer impossibility of convincing every man on Earth to refrain from using electronic devices which produce large amounts of negative emissions. Technology has become such a large part of mankind that some people would not be able to survive without it. Another possible reason may be because of the cost involved to design radiation-reducing phenomenons of sorts. After all, in my opinion, scientists today would very much prefer investing money into curing cancer, a world-known illness, rather than preventing 'oh-so-dangerous electronic pollution'.



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