Ironically, the human being lives separate from the environment, but united in existence with it. The planet is the most balanced environmental group we know. All elements and beings interact with each other, except for us. In the desire to achieve comfort, certain human activities drastically transform the environment.
To meet the daily needs of every human being on the planet it takes much more than we think. Small actions such as bathing, turning on your cell phone and even eating have an effect on nature.
It is possible that up to this point you have not considered all those international actions that are required for your survival. However, today we can say that this overexploitation of natural resources has led to unprecedented environmental degradation.
But not everything happened from one day to the next and much less do all of these actions have the same impact. Considering that human beings are 100% dependent on the Earth and its resources, this means that there are no other elements that give us life. However, this does not mean that there are no other ways to take advantage of resources. We know that human activities transform the environment, but do you know which ones?
Until 2019, there were 7,674 billion people in the world. Today we do not know this information exactly, but we do know that each one requires food, air, and more. In order to meet basic needs and much more, people developed a unique and consumerist civilization that requires toxic actions for the planet.
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The main human activities that transform the environment:
Demographic growth: the number of inhabitants on Earth is exceeded year after year, limiting the natural occupation of the land.
Agriculture and livestock: as the population grows, food becomes scarce and more land is required to produce it.
Energy production: Energy development becomes vital and the construction of dams, thermal and nuclear power plants defines the new path.
Industrialization: in the search to facilitate survival tasks, human beings produce machines that produce environmental effects worldwide.
Urbanization and infrastructure: the landscape begins to transform to make way for cities, this implies the destruction of land.
Resource extraction: the needs become greater as the development of civilization increases and resources are increasingly sought after.
Fishing: If land food is not a nearby option, then the seas become open markets.
Wars: the power to acquire the best resources opens the possibility of conflicts and wars come as a massive method.
Water pollution: human presence is growing and natural territories are less free. The more consumption, the more waste.
Air pollution: The era of industrialization attracts the development of better machines, transportation and toxic agents in the air.
Destruction of forests: with the overexploitation of the soil and the emission of gases, forests become less viable spaces.
Elimination of: while human beings make their way through natural diversity, they impoverish ecosystems and deprive biological variety of a worthy recovery.
Urban waste: in a world of consumption there can only be accumulation and the serious waste problem extends throughout the planet.
Destruction of the shield: on the surface, the era of modernity evolves without considering the effects and this implies that toxic gases rise until they destroy the Earth’s shield.