Environmental pollution is not an occurrence of the recent past or the period since the onset of industrialisation in the middle of the nineteenth century. Air pollution is certainly as old as the first use of fire an the dust storms that assuredly occurred on Earth long before the advent of Homo sapiens. The agricultural revolution and industrialization have truly exacerbated the problems of pollution, these having been well documented. But they indeed have been chronicled much earlier. As the pages of this volume will amply demonstrate, pollution of the air, water and soil, whether locally or distantly produced, renders detrimental effects on the environment physically and culturally as well as from a health perspective. By its very nature, human activity result in by-products, alone or in combination with other by-products, the result is contamination of the environment.