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Also known as photo-pollution or luminous pollution, light pollution is excess and intruding artificial light produced by humans. Like any other pollutants, excessive light has the potential to cause adverse ecological imbalance and health effects.

It is said that 70% of land and water pollution in the United States alone can be attributed to the conventional agriculture that we know of today.

Pollution does not only affect us indirectly by adding up to the causes of global warming. Several medical researches in the past are pointing out to earth pollutants as the cause of a variety of health ailments.