The effects of land pollution are far-ranging in the industrial age. The nature of the industrial revolution and the lack of a sustainable development model for industrial progress have allowed the creation of chemicals and products which may serve the idea of convenience or productivity or efficiency, however, the concept of environmental stewardship is largely an afterthought. This has led to long-lasting chemicals which persist in the environment and are potentially toxic to life.
PERSISTENCE OF LAND POLLUTION AND CHEMICAL PATHWAYS TO HUMANS
The effects of pollution on the land are not limited to the terrestrial ecosystem, because the synthetic chemicals are not degraded by the normal processes of life. From there, the pollution can travel through the roots of plants into any herbivore which consumes the plant and on and on and on until it reaches the highest organisms in the food web: humans.
ENVIRONMENTAL LIABILITY HEATH AND INVESTMENT RISK OF LAND POLLUTION
In the 21st century, the concept of environmental liability is evolving towards a polluter-pay model in which the generator of the pollution is responsible for costs of cleanup and in certain cases, the costs of health effects that can be directly proven to have resulted from the cause of the environmental problem.
ELIMINATING LAND POLLUTION AND THE EFFECTS
Thus, removing environmental pollution from the land not only removes the contamination from the land, it removes contamination from the food web, it aids in the mitigation of adverse health effects like cancer, and it removes potentially costly liability. Eliminating the liability, now effectively removes the risk to future earnings and worth. It will mean a short term capital investment to minimize the effects environmental pollution, to maximize any health effects mitigation which may occur, and to maximize the value of the land. In an age where business increasingly has to consider greater risk to