Positive Changes To The Natural Environment

Forest is one of the subunits that deforestation had influenced on. The government cost was significantly influenced by deforestation in the forest. According to the BBC news, a new study estimated that the annual cost of forest loss for the global economy is

Potential unintended consequences include diversion of foods (corn and sugar cane) from human consumption, by creating scarcity and increasing food prices. Humanitarian food aid could dwindle. Conversion of forests to croplands can increase carbon dioxide levels, and threaten

: CORRECT Agricultural practices improve wildlife habitats and lead to increased species populations in farming communities.

I care deeply about the planet Earth, the home humans originate from, so it pains me to watch “modern” society devastate natural life across the board. I feel personally connected to the issue of how we use our land. Having lived in the Lee County area since birth, I have noticed just in our own little part of the world how much “development” can change things. There used to be so much more plant life: trees, grasses, flowers and a myriad of other greenery. What was once considered “empty” lots, by some, have been adapted to suit human desires be it additional roads, restaurants, shopping malls, and a continuing spread of “chain” corporate industries. Beyond human structures, huge amounts of land also are cultivated for industrial farming

larger vegetation zones to the way we should understand the ecology of the land scape.

Deforestation occurs for many reasons, agriculture due to the increasing need for food products, large amounts of trees are removed to grow crops and for animals (Deforestation and Its Effect, 2017). Logging because wood-based industries such as paper and furniture need a large supply of wood to produce the amount used by the population, the wood is also used as a fuel source (Deforestation and Its Extreme Effect, n.d.). Urbanization, the forests are destroyed to put in roads and buildings due to the growing population (Environmental Impact of Deforestation, n.d.). Forest fires are another way of

(Phillips, 2008, p.385) Farmers are the reason as to why the region has been stable, has helped the economy, and are the “guardians of the land,” as noted by Phillips. (Phillips, 2008, p. 385) That being noted, farming has helped so many individuals, such as in jobs as well as food products such as wheat in our everyday lives. Technological innovations have helped in the development of the land of the Palouse. Chemicals have helped evolve the land with the growth of crop yields, such as “herbicides, pesticides, fertilizers, and hybrid wheat varieties.” (Phillips, 2008, pg. 387) This has caused long term environmental problems such as soil erosion. This has brought me to the interest of how the land that overcame the main problem. That is soil erosion stripped off the land due to farmers using chemicals to implement growth in their

6. The positive effects include the introduction of iron, new crops, and centralized government to new places. The negative effects included depopulation, loss of culture/homogenization, and loss of language/homogenization.

All reading is conducted orally with corresponding pictures, and various activities and graphic organizers are completed whole class and individually throughout the reading process. This module contains nine lessons and covers the following habitats: Arctic (Arctic tundra and Arctic Ocean), Sonoran Desert, East African savanna, temperate deciduous forest (Great Smoky Mountains), tropical rainforest (Amazon rainforest), freshwater, and saltwater, as well as habitat destruction and endangered

Land use changes, as described by Lappé, include every change of land in order to produce, or distribute, food. Annually, forests, bogs, swamps, rain forests, and other biomes are Ableman 1 destroyed for agricultural purpose. Destruction of these biomes lead to the release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere which is the most prominent greenhouse gas. The second “connection” in The Climate Crisis at the End of Our Fork is the “agricultural connection.”

For example, as a poor farmer who grows trees. The farmers cannot plant trees because they cannot afford the seeds they are growing trees naturally with their crops to help the environment. By having the trees with their crops, it doubles or even triples the number of crops that were grown. The farmers also restore a lot of trees to the land which help with the environment and even their crops grow more efficiently and naturally. It also helps makes the soil more fertilize, which helps the livestock thrive.

One impact is that there would be less industries. There wouldn’t be enough food being produced and enough food to go around for everyone to live. In the book

Gradually, farming replaced hunting and gathering as the primary way of sustaining life. The new environment supports a large productive population with increased food production

Agriculture and Geography affect a lot of people because some of them were in this one land with barely any animals to domesticate, barely any variety of food to grow,

When societies began farming, food surpluses were often developed. This caused an urgency to develop proper food storage so food could be kept until needed. These surpluses meant that societies would always hold enough food to feed everyone, so that no one would starve or be forced to skip meals. With proper food storage, food could be kept longer than it had been until this point. Again, though, for each of these positive results of agriculture there is a negative one to counterbalance it.