Environmental Pollution - Environment and Ecology for UPSC IAS Part 2

this is part 2 lecture of environment and ecology series in this video we're going to learn about what is environmental pollution and what are the different types of environmental pollution that exists around us let's begin with the definition first with rapid increase in population and economic development there will be some side effects on the environmental

resources it has this side effect we refer to as environmental pollution in other words environmental pollution is something that brings harm to our environment and in turn it affects the people because we live in the environment now how does environmental pollution occur in the most basic sense let's assume there is a plant and a

human being the law of the nature says both has to grow with time so the plant grows into a tree and starts developing fruits and the human being grows into an adult now humans need food so he or she goes and plucks a fruit from the tree they eat and throw the uneaten part of

the fruit that uneaten part becomes a waste and mixes with the environment in such a way that it gives rise to different forms of pollutant likewise there are many ways in which waste products may be generated during the extraction of raw materials the processing of raw materials into final products and also during consumption now

we'll see what are the different types of pollution environmental pollution occurs in different forms like air water soil radioactive noise heat thermal and a waste let's quickly get to know each one of them the first one is air pollution it is the most common and dangerous form of pollution as the society moves towards urbanization air