Environmental Issues In The World

The world is dying and humans are all in denial. Mother Earth has not been the same ever blossoming piece of art it used to be. Twenty years on from the Rio Earth Summit, the environment of the planet is getting worse, not better, according to a report from World Wildlife Fund (2012). The swelling population, losing forests and pollution is putting human life and the environment in a great danger. However, regarding these environmental issues there has been always controversies. Environmentalists claim that things are getting worse, and the skeptics deny and claim that things are not that much worse. Environmentalists demand that due to population and pollution the environment is losing its ecosystem balance and as a result human life is going

World population is growing, every other day, at a very high rate. From the present statistics of The World Counts (2016), the present world population is around seven billion. By 2025 and 2040 the figure will be eight billion and nine billion respectively. So more food, land, and resources is needed to fulfill the demand of this vast population. Some 795 million people in the world do not have enough food to lead a healthy active life and that is about one in nine people on the earth as reported by the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (2015). The amount of the world’s cultivation friendly land is limited, so it is not possible to produce sufficient food for all the people while the population is increasing and on the other hand the farming land is decreasing. Moreover, the death rate of infants also increased in a proportion. On this, Leslie (1998-99) explained the harsh scenario, “In the poorest region of the world an estimated one in five children will not live to see their fifth birthday”. However for the reason of overpopulation, human living standard has been decreasing dramatically and poverty rate and population density in the urban areas is increasing as well. “The number of poor people living in high-poverty neighborhoods nearly doubled, from 1.9 million to 3.7 million”, as stated by Fitzpatrick & Gory (2000). From

If the environment is polluted, it directly effects all the habitats. There are some myths regarding environmental pollution. Some people claim that CO2 is not a pollutant! “To suddenly label CO2 as a ‘pollutant’ is a disservice to a gas that has played an enormous role in the development and sustainability of all life on this wonderful Earth. Mother Earth has clearly ruled that CO2 is not a pollutant”, as quoted by Balling (2008); but scientists have figured out that CO2 is responsible for global warming, ocean acidification, ozone layer depletion and the greenhouse effect. Vaidyanathan (2014) has referred carbon-di-oxide as the worst climate pollutant and also claimed that, “carbon-di-oxide outranks soot, methane, and even hydrofluorocarbons in term of long term global warming”. “Rising anthropogenic CO2 emissions are anticipated to drive change to ocean ecosystem, but a conceptualization of biological change derived from quantitative analyses is lacking”, according to Nagelkerken & Connell (2015). CO2 is really harmful to the environment and this gas is responsible for some of the major environmental