Chapter 6 - Environmental pollution and sustainability

Abstract

Nowadays, environmental issues are a significant problem that are growing rapidly and have not been properly addressed. Unsolved problems resulting from environmental pollution indicate people's inability to manage local problems over external issues. Globally, the natural and built environments are under threat, due to climatic disturbances: sudden, destructive heavy rains and repetitive floods due to intense tropical storms. Environmental issues have become more widespread and intense due to increasing industrial and human impacts on the environment. There is a need for an effort to achieve the objective of increasing ecoefficiency in several sectors of the economy envisaged in the national sustainable development strategy. The term sustainability is a key element of the ecological balance. Sustainable development requires a consistent supply of fuels such as hydrogen which, in the long term, is both sustainable and readily available at an affordable price that can be used for every needy work without harming the social impact. For a long time, it has been recognized that resource depletion and environmental pollution are the byproducts of industrial production.