I agree with the congressional Office of Technological Assessment that the real amounts of toxic chemicals are much higher. Probably as much as double what the industry is reporting. I have no doubt that there are countless cover ups concerning chemical spills and intentional polluting. These people are probably more concerned with hiding these incidences from the media than they are about doing something about it.
Health problems are absolutely getting worse as the earth becomes more polluted. Sometimes it seems as though getting cancer is an inevitable part of life nowadays. The destruction and weakening of the ozone is a major ecological problem that is part of the reason for the growing number of cancer cases. The many forms of pollution are also wreaking havoc on our health as well as affecting animal's health. There have been many cases of deformed frog with three eyes, six legs, etc, and breathing in smog daily must have adverse affects on the people who live in big cities. .
The environmental crises can be summed up into eight basic parts. We are facing global warming due to the burning of fossil fuel, leveling rainforests and filling the atmosphere with chemicals. This will have disastrous affects for live on earth. Toxic wastes that now fill the world will continue to cause disease and cancer. Loss of land, species, wilderness, and native people are heartbreaking effects of our industrialism and overpopulation. Our enormous volume of consumption and waste is basically fueling the environmental crisis. Genetic engineering has the scary potential for creating non-human humans, and we need to have more studies and testing before we continue.
Religion in terms of the environment is how various religions regard nature and the interaction between man and the earth. Some "religious institutions have also tried to alter our current destructive patterns" (Gottlieb, 9). I don't think that most established religions are doing enough about this problem.