Land Destruction By Tourist Attractions

Global warming -- and climate change -- have long-term and short-term impacts on our environment. Caused by air pollutants such as carbon dioxide and methane, global warming is the gradual increase of air temperature across the globe. The rise in air temperatures can lead to higher extinction rates, increased risk of disease and political repercussions, such as wars over available resources. Understanding the possible short-term and long-term effects can help humans better prepare for the consequences of global warming.

We might disagree on the causes of global warming; however, we cannot ignore that it is happening. Although we still experience cold winters, average global temperatures has risen drastically for the past three decades. Polar ice caps are melting; as a result, sea levels are rising. Scientist predict more extreme weather in the coming decades, in fact, droughts will probably be more common. Also, flooding and tropical temperatures might cause large amounts of methane gases to be released, which could be disastrous for our atmosphere. Climate change may have human causes and also it might be a natural occurrence. Nevertheless, we must find ways to save our planet.

Furthermore, extraction of building materials such as sand affects coral reefs, mangroves, and hinterland forests, leading to erosion and destruction of habitats. Overbuilding and extensive paving of shorelines can result in destruction of habitats and disruption of land-sea connections such as sea-turtle nesting spots. Coral reefs are especially fragile marine ecosystems and are suffering worldwide from reef-based tourism developments. Evidence suggests a variety of impacts to coastline ecosystems result from shoreline development, increased sediments in the water, trampling by tourists and divers, ship groundings, pollution from sewage, overfishing, and fishing with poisons and explosives that destroy coral

Conservationists around the world are putting their best foot forward in an attempt to save the coral reefs. Coral reefs today are at a high risk of damage because of all the attention drawn to them by tourists. There are some islands that make all their money through tourism and exploiting the coral reefs, giving snorkel and scuba diving trips to guests that have traveled from around the world. Many people travel to these places with amazing under water worlds and they come extremely uneducated about these beautiful masterpieces. Tourists will drop their anchors on top of corals and drive their boats over corals, causing severe damage that will take the coral years and years to replenish. There are always new ways to enhance the lives of the

“Coral reefs are extremely important for biodiversity, providing a home to over 25% of all marine life. They are also vital for people and business. They provide nurseries for many species of commercially important fish, protection of coastal areas from storm waves, and are a significant attraction for the tourism industry”

Human activities such as pollution and deforestation, has changed the climate as a whole, leading to an increased amount of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide to enter the atmosphere. The effects of this has led to higher sea levels, loss of sea ice and an increase in heat waves across the globe.

As discussed before, humans play a, sometimes, dangerous role in the well-being of the coral reef. Since the coral reef, specifically the Great Barrier Reef, has become such a major tourist destination, it has lead to the issues of pollution, stealing of species, and the use of boats and other forms of water transportation that damage the coral reef

However, with the population rising dramatically demand for resources have also increased. Companies producing these products for their consumers built factories not knowing its pollution is harming the environment. Although effects of pollution is evident on land, the ocean, especially areas near the coastline, have also taken a huge toll during this process. According to the article, “Caribbean coral reefs ‘will be lost within 20 years’ without protection”, Jessica Aldred, the author, states,” Region’s corals have declined by more than 50%.” (Aldred 2) implying that immediate attention is required due to pollution in the Caribbean. Furthermore, the cause of this pollution originates from tourists and citizens who carelessly throws trash into the ocean; the pollution can also come from hotels and building whose sewage is dumped along the coast. Tourism also increase the chances that a careless swimmer and or diver play, move, and take the coral. Some steps have been taken such as warning signs, but in order to stop this completely higher authority must be involved. Effects of pollution to coral reefs can be devastating; for example, it exposes the corals to more bacterias

Coral reefs are generally called the rainforests of the sea, both due to the extensive amount of species they shelter, and to the significant productivity they generate (ICRI 2012). In addition to contributing to a valued habitat, coral reefs provide spawning, nursery, refuge and feeding areas, and provide nearly $30 billion (US) in net benefits in goods and services to world economies, including, tourism, fisheries, and coastal protection (ICRI 2012). Coral reefs are deteriorating all over the world due to untreated sewage and chemical agriculture run-off and unregulated coastal construction, both of which increases sedimentation, but they are also affected by over fishing and destructive fishing practices, scuba diving, and increased tourism (Spalding et al. 2001).

With the amount of pollution around the world, many marine animals, especially sea turtles, have been impacted. Research has shown that sea turtles have begun to have a decrease in their population size with 6 of the 7 sea turtle species being endangered. Sea turtles face many threats in their life time most of them are natural threats that they face while they are being nested for on beaches around the world. Although many of these natural threats are easy to overcome with the help of preservation acts, the biggest challenge sea turtles face is from the carelessness of humans. The main human threat they face comes from the increase of pollution, which contributes to the increase of the rate at which these turtles are affected and eventually killed off. With the increase of pollution comes roadblocks the turtles are presented with such as having to live in an extremely polluted water, climate change and dealing with life threatening health concerns.

The first definable cause of global warming is because human activities. In the past few decades the population of the world has increased rapidly. This has certainly triggered to increase pollution and ultimately effecting in the rise of earth's temperature. The major contributors of the climate change

Last but not least, global warming has caused the polar ice caps to melt. The melting of the polar ice caps will cause the sea levels to rise all over the world. If the sea levels rise just a metre

The first thing I want to start off with is telling you what global warming is and give you an idea of what it can do to our planet. Global warming increases temperature all around the world. It also put a lot more carbon dioxide in the air by us humans. Pollution of Carbon dioxide is one is the most common one and is mostly caused by running vehicles exhaust, burning of fossil fuels such as coal,and factory smoke.when we let carbon dioxide in the air it has nowhere to go except in our atmosphere. therefore is causes rising temperature to build up in our atmosphere over time slowly.

Global warming has a lot of causes and effects throughout the globe, including: icecaps melting, deforestation, carbon emissions, factory smoke, forest fires, coral reefs dying, and extreme weather catastrophes. All of these causes and effects listed can be prevented if only the population of people who do not believe it is real would start caring about the environment and what we release into the atmosphere.

happens naturally sometimes due to the change in the earth's orbit (which does not cause greenhouse gasses but can still change the climate), but humans are tremendously speeding up the process. The greenhouse gas is released by fossil fuels or the harvest of oil. The effects of climate change are very horrible. The arctic and glaciers have melted making no homes for native wildlife such as polar bears. Also because of the melting the sea level will increase hugely and flood many areas, Such As florida, New york, New Orleans, San Francisco, Washington, Nile Delta, Netherlands, and last off venice.