Current Events- Pollution at the Ends of the Earth

Summary:

Kuujjuaq is a small village in the Canadian Arctic, with fauna and blue skies, where no one would think there was pollution. Somehow, there is, a lot of it, that you can never get rid of. And worse, it's not the people that live there that created it. It's us, in the cities with giant factories and cars killing not only our but the innocent people's environment. Toxic chemicals travel until a cold place, for example the Arctic, but they never leave, and they remain in the human’s body forever. A doctor started studying these chemicals called persistent organic pollutants or POP. He found out that more than 10 million tons of POPs floated to the Arctic. Where they landed, that’s where they remained. If they landed on a small fish, then eaten by a bigger fish, and then a human would eat that big fish, than the human will have the POP in him. POP that would never get out. It didn't have major affects on humans yet but it seems that every child has 2 tiny rain drops of POP in them. And POPs are more concentrated, so 2 raid drops in the 5 year olds’ body is as many chemicals in the half a million kilograms of sea water.

Reflection:

First, I think this is horrible and completely unfair! The poor people living in Kuujjuaq don't deserve this, they did absolutely nothing. Still they live without anything to do about it. I doubt most of them even know its happening. They live carrying all the horrible chemicals we cause, in our cities. The people living in Kuujjuaq are completely innocent, and we must find a way to stop POP spread. Is it the five year old boy’s fault that he now has an equivalent of half a million kilograms of sea water chemicals by simply eating and drinking? The solution is simple: we created it, we solve it. I bet scientist could find a way to eliminate POP from bodies of humans and animals. I am 100% sure we can do something!
Whenever I imagine blue skies, no tall buildings, no cars, not factories I imagine NO pollution. But I guess I'm wrong. Now probably every inch of the Earth is polluted. I wonder how POP would affect us. Does this happen in Belgrade while its winter? How about other parts of the world? How will POP affect our life, what if it’s in bigger quantities?
I found this article is fascinating. It made me think of what we do and what we cause to innocent people.