Saturday, April 9, 2016
IS human activities harming Earth?
There are so many harmful activities that the earth is getting worse!!
I will give 4 examples
Cutting trees
Smoke
Garbage
First, we are rapidly changing large portions of the environment, such as when we cut down a forest to make way for a town. This is harmful because all forms of life live in the forests
from the tops of the trees to deep into the ground. So once the forests are gone, most of that life is gone with it. Forests also help to provide the oxygen that we breathe, as well as the clean water that we drink.
Secondly,we are also rapidly changing the environment by adding too much waste to it, such as when cars and generators release carbon dioxide (CO2) into the air. Releasing waste is natural and necessary. Plants need CO2 to live, and one of their waste products is oxygen, which we need to live. But we are releasing so much CO2 into the air that the plants cannot possibly use it all. And there are fewer and fewer plants to use it when we cut down forests. The extra CO2 that collects in our atmosphere is a major cause of global warming.
There are thousands of factories,cars and millions of smokers that generates smoke.
Third example,Maybe you think your waste is going into a landfill, or to a recycling facility (most likely it’s not actually being recycled), and hopefully you compost your food waste to turn it into soil.
But unfortunately, even though some stuff is going to landfills or recycling, a majority of our waste ends up spreading itself around the globe, either by being transported by wind, water or human; by breaking down into smaller parts, or by degrading into its chemical components. And these dispersal methods are damaging the health of the animals, people and ecosystems on this planet.
Some of the waste is accidental, no doubt. Whether it’s a hurricane that damages a city and sends debris across the ocean, which is what happened with the 2011 Japanese earthquake and tsunami disaster, or products falling off a shipping container in the middle of the ocean. But much of the problem lies in a corporate culture that is not responsible for waste or end-of-life concerns for products, and our need for continuously cheaper goods made from unsustainable, short-life expectancy products.
I think that human activities are harming earth and we should be more careful
What we do,what we throw away and what we build.
Anto V. Emir
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