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the result of pollution from urban cities and industries. Environmental degradation
contributes to be a key factor in turning utmost weather events into natural disasters;
therefore this issue needs our foremost attention [49]. The challenge includes desertification, deforestation, pollution, and climate change. Industrial pollution being the
ground cause of the major environmental issues; our sole purpose is to emphasize
problems sourced from industries to obviate environmental degradation which eventually helps us counter society’s vulnerability toward nature. Figure 6.2 is describing
how industrial pollution is generated.
The 1984 Bhopal Disaster in India contributed to the world’s first civilian pollution
crisis. Union Carbide factory was responsible for the leakage of industrial vapors
which belonged to Union Carbide, Inc., U.S.A. This incident took away the lives of
more than 3787 people in one day and injured up to 150,000–600,000. The worst air
pollution event for the United Kingdom goes to the Great Smog (London 1952). In
around 6 days 4,000 people died and a recent study suggests that the estimate rose to
the figure of around 12,000 deaths. Former USSR in 1979 had a biological warfare
laboratory near Sverdlovsk which had an accidental leakage of anthrax which is
believed to be a reason for nearly 64 deaths. Single worst incident of air pollution in
the US occurred in 1948 in Borough Donora in late October, where 20 people died
and over 7,000 got injured [20].
Pollution can be of various types as the source and affected areas vary, while
industrial pollution refers explicitly to any contamination to the environment caused
by industries, making it the major source of pollution on the planet. Industries are
Fig. 6.2 Generation of industrial pollution
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the result of pollution from urban cities and industries. Environmental degradation
contributes to be a key factor in turning utmost weather events into natural disasters;
therefore this issue needs our foremost attention [49]. The challenge includes desertification, deforestation, pollution, and climate change. Industrial pollution being the
ground cause of the major environmental issues; our sole purpose is to emphasize
problems sourced from industries to obviate environmental degradation which eventually helps us counter society’s vulnerability toward nature. Figure 6.2 is describing
how industrial pollution is generated.
The 1984 Bhopal Disaster in India contributed to the world’s first civilian pollution
crisis. Union Carbide factory was responsible for the leakage of industrial vapors
which belonged to Union Carbide, Inc., U.S.A. This incident took away the lives of
more than 3787 people in one day and injured up to 150,000–600,000. The worst air
pollution event for the United Kingdom goes to the Great Smog (London 1952). In
around 6 days 4,000 people died and a recent study suggests that the estimate rose to
the figure of around 12,000 deaths. Former USSR in 1979 had a biological warfare
laboratory near Sverdlovsk which had an accidental leakage of anthrax which is
believed to be a reason for nearly 64 deaths. Single worst incident of air pollution in
the US occurred in 1948 in Borough Donora in late October, where 20 people died
and over 7,000 got injured [20].
Pollution can be of various types as the source and affected areas vary, while
industrial pollution refers explicitly to any contamination to the environment caused
by industries, making it the major source of pollution on the planet. Industries are
Fig. 6.2 Generation of industrial pollution