Impact of the Human Population on Environment and the Biogeochemical Cycles

Laurance argues that human beings have the heaviest impact on nature. The author givessamples of each environment and how it has changed for the worst. There is fact provided witheach section giving examples of each and the measurements of what has changed. This sourceprovides information from scholarly, well known authors, and facts from many scientist aroundthe world. I can use this source to show how human beings have such a drastic effect on theirenvironments, proven with facts and statistics from all over the world.

It cannot be denied that, in at least some areas, the invention and progression of technology has benefitted the human race. With the growing industrialization of the world in the last centuries the lives of many people have been made easier. But, this growth of technology is not without its consequences and people are not without their concerns. While industrialization has had its benefits, the environmental cost of this progress is immense, and the impact it has on nature can be hard to swallow. It may seem like talk of the environment is something to be left to scientists or activists specializing in that particular field, but they are

One human factor to environmental problems is the human population. A large population requires a lot of the environments resources and land, putting an incredible strain on the Earth (Gerber and Macionis 2012). If the Earth is over populated, and

With great advancements in technology and science, humans have been altering the environment of the earth. Around the

When we think about water pollution what comes to mind? have we ever thought about how water pollution affects plants and human life? In this essay i'll talk about in what ways water pollution affects these topics today. Over two thirds of Earth's surface is covered by water less than a third is taken up by land so the condition of the water and how we keep it is pretty important. All living organisms need water to survive on this earth but what happens if the water is no longer clean or usable?

Human population continues to grow constantly, strong effects on population size and other factors in ecosystem or community can change in response to changing environmental conditions. When the population grows and it becomes overpopulated we have to move into a new geographic area, stabilize the population, and switch to new resources. In doing so, there are different things build such as shopping malls, freeways, and turning farming land into parking lots. All of this contributes to environmental problems, degradation, and it limits resources and disturbs the wildlife. Wildlife then have to figure out where else to migrate to because their land has been taken over by humans. The pollution could be bad because of the gas from cars and different machines. Also factories contribute into the pollution being mad and it

In this paper I will discuss one of the world’s problems which is the pollution of the Fresh Water Systems in the United States. I will show how the pollution of fresh water affects land, air and plant life to include humanity. When water is polluted it can affect all living things. Some of the human activities that can be affected is the drinking water, without fresh drinking water humans would not be able to survive. One of the pleasures that humans enjoy is swimming although humans can swim in the oceans some enjoy lakes and if the lakes are polluted then that activity would not be able to be performed. Also without fresh water much there would be lost of sea life and those who rely on fishing as a way of life would be out of resources to provide for their families. Water pollution is a global problem it is reported that more than 1,030327 deaths occur from dirty water diseases. Dirty water is considered to be one of human’s greatest dangers. Dirty water contains organisms which are called pathogens; these pathogens contain bacteria, viruses and parasitic organisms. What these organisms do is infect humans which cause illness. Some of the illness that can be caused by polluted water is Typhoid which is an infectious bacterial; this causes fever with an outbreak of red spots on the chest and abdomen and severe gastral irritation. Another illness is Cholera which is infectious and is a fatal

The overall growth of the human population in the last 2000 years has been a J-shaped growth. This can also be expressed as an exponential growth. A big question that can only be answered in time is how this population growth will slow down or stop. The planet can only handle so many humans before the effects of overpopulation send the environment into an unrecoverable tailspin of degradation. So the question is will the overall maximum human population be reached in a gradual manner with a trend resulting in an S-shaped population growth, or do we as humans need to experience some kind of catastrophic event that will let us know that the maximum capacity of

The earth is the danger of many environmental issues. We see air pollution, global warming, overpopulation, natural resources extinction, waste disposal; all these environmental crises heighten year after year and will continue to cause tragedies to us in the future. We should all take these issues seriously and actively curb these environmental crises from worsening day after day. It greatly impacted my thoughts about the water pollution that was happening in my surrounding while I was going through this course. Water is a very important element in human’s

Interactions between human and the ecosystem have been operating for millenniums, and are impossible to eliminate, as each depends on the other in order to survive and flourish. However, as modern technology advances, as well as the increase in the world’s population, the need for natural resources begin to rise to an alarming rate which has started to gradually destroy the ecosystem. Recently, there has been an increase of sea levels in region whilst other rain-bounty areas have begun to experience their first droughts. This phenomenon is known as climate change. Climatologists have concluded that human activity has played a major role in contributing to the changes, therefore requiring extreme measures before this phenomenon evolves into

It would seem quite apparent that an increase in population has a causal relationship with the status of the environment. Some

Human societies have always altered their physical environments, such as, used fire, cleared forests, tilled the soil, etc. Since the 1950’s, the pace and magnitude of the negative environmental impacts of human activities have magnified and intensified. (p. 80) The Earth has always gone through climate change, but not until recently have we as a human society sped up this process. The way we have sped up these processes is most significantly with the high demand of fossil fuels, deforestation of rain forests, pumping of greenhouse gases into the air, pollution of water by fertilizers, use of pesticides, animal wastes, emission of toxic chemicals, and rapid erosion of top soil. In addition, until recently people were unconcerned with conservation because they seemed to be so vast a storehouse of resources that waste was not considered a problem. (p. 97). This may explain the tendency to be wasteful, but it is only a partial answer. The underlying sources of our present environmental problems can be located in the culture and structure of U.S. society. A strong tie to capitalism has allowed large corporations to do whatever is profitable while ignoring conservation of natural resources. This dominant ideology has tended to legitimize or at least account for all the wastefulness of Americans and their acceptance of pollution.

Our planet has suffered from a great deal of pollution due to human activities over the ages, especially since the Industrial Revolution in the early 1800s (Changes since the Industrial Revolution, 2017). Pollution occurs when an environment cannot “decompose an element that has been brought to it in an unnatural way” (Amir, 2017). Despite some major consequences that result from this, the human population continues to cause considerable damage, creating 1.3 billion tonnes of rubbish every year (Philp, 2015), which contaminates waterways, land, and air and disrupts the complex structures of so many fragile ecosystems.

“For the greenest of environmentalists, humans are of lesser importance than the abundant and diverse flora and fauna of the planet. Humans are defined as a recent addition to the livestock and are considered to have been a wholly disruptive influence on a world which was paradise before their arrival.”[1]

Society has been affected by the environment and affected the environment we live in. while many things have been changing due to human ativity, much as been preserved and protected by human activity.the interactions between humans and the environment are constantly changing. The way we treat the earth and the earth treats us has changed over the years. These effects include decrease water quality, increased pollution and greenhouse emissions, depletion of natural reousrces and contribution to climate change. Some of these effects can be easily linked to human activities whereas others remain unclear. Water pollution is primarily the fault of humans and the excess input of nutrients into the