The increase in urban population and the formation of large cities - megacities make environmental urban areas are at risk of severe recession. Clean water supply, housing, trees do not meet the population growth. Environmental pollution of air, water environment increased. Social evils and management issues in urban society increasingly difficult. Population growth is putting heavy pressure on the global environment. The area of the earth virtually unchanged but the population increased many times. Rapid population growth makes the environment does not meet the basic needs of human beings. Want to survive, people had to deforestation to expand the area under cultivation and animal husbandry. Since 1950 - 1993, the cultivated area per capita …show more content…
In 1999, the urban population in the world is 2.8 billion people, more than 4 times that of 1950. Currently, there are up to half the world's population live in urban areas, environmental challenges originate part of the municipality. Major cities have produced 75% of global CO2 as use of fossil fuels and consume 3/4 of the world's industrial wood. The speed of urbanization, environmental issues such as air and water pollution is worse in areas where the government is not capable of building and managing infrastructure for transportation, and processing of water trash. Currently there are 220 million people in the cities of the developing country in a state of lack of clean water and 1.1 billion people are living in an atmosphere of stifling pollution. Besides, the quality of soil also decreased markedly, land and bare hills occupy 30% of the natural area. Domestic sewage and industrial wastewater contaminated environments especially in cities and towns. The amount of waste increases with the increase in …show more content…
Each year, the world population increases with a dizzying rate, the population growth will require more living space, more jobs, food, health and education. Whether in any aspect, the population explosion will create a huge burden on the environment. First, on the issue of accommodation, with the population growing rapidly increasing, the population density of the area and the human rising exploited jungle areas to create more space for the survival God. Thousands of hectares of forests are cut down to serve the industry, hundreds of forests were burned to make way for the construction of high-end residential areas, hotels, golf courses, parks and hundreds of production type of construction different building. Jungle Speed destruction took place too quickly, while the pace of recovery and growth of trees not outline any possible way unmatched. For example, a normal tree takes at least ten to twenty years to grow into a mature tree. Meanwhile, people only take a few minutes to cut down a tall tree a dozen years old. Land was burned causing the trees take a long time to be able to grow again, that is not to mention the land affected by acidity, salinity and lead contamination due to environmental pollution. Today, seeing a monkey hanging from a tree branch between a piece of land barren desolation is no longer strange to people. The forests are being destroyed to meet the needs
A great percentage of the people in this city uses old cars, and this ones pollute even more. This city is going bigger each day, so the edges of the city are being deforested. We don’t have a big green area, but they
The serious threat to the health of the IRL is the reduced water quality due to the manmade hydrologic changes, non-point pollution, loss
Deforestation is still an unbeleafable issue even to this day. With our trees being cut down to make supplies and furniture, we struggle with keeping our ratio of trees being destroyed and trees being planted equal. It seems like that was also the case in the past. There was a significant amount of trees being cut down in 1920, the land looking much more barren than it did in 1650 (Document A, map). These trees, some of them taking more than three thousand years to rise tall, are being cut down.
When this happens it causes adverse effects on the environment. It can be done in a variety of ways from cutting to burning. Either way mass deforestation is bad and needs to stop before it is too late. One culprit of our deforestation is
By cutting down trees, many eco-systems get destroyed and many animals will not survive. I have noticed how this process occurs a lot in Florida. The Florida Everglades once compromised most of the state, and due to human development almost half
Cities improve due to innovation, but humans residing in them may not. The Industrial Revolution was a period in time where new inventions helped labor become less taxing and more efficient in the South. On the other hand, the North developed urban cities, which attracted many people. Urban cities had become the epitome of civilization: ease of life and wealth was present, but not available to everyone. To elaborate, these urban cities provided job opportunities to women.
In this story, this is greatly expressed through the end of the story, where they come to the realization that overusing natural resources was a very real thing. Them cutting down the forests and trees at such a fast rate resulted in the animals having to home, and having to invade theirs instead. It consistently happened, and despite being warned for years, it wasn’t a top priority. There are 8 billion people on planet earth, and not everyone can be sustained as there are infinite wants and needs, but finite resources. Humans have both developed and destroyed the world, and it shows through technology, along with poverty, and war.
This act has a lot of cause and effects. Removing trees leaves animals with no place
It would therefore be more realistic to encourage all parties involved in the process of deforestation to manage the resources of the forest in a sustainable way. This means that the usage of the methods of clear-cutting and burning would have to be eliminated if the forest ecosystem is to be able to remain intact. If certain trees need to be cut down, however, then theses should be replaced by enough young trees which can fill the same role to an equal extent as the ones which are cut down. Here it’s important to acknowledge that it’s impossible to eliminate deforestation completely since the growing population puts a high demand for more land which is used for agricultural purposes. Therefore the solution must include keeping a balance between deforestation and efforts of reforestation, sustainable management of forests and respecting the integrity of protected
Karin 20/08/2014 English 8A Nearly everyday in our lives, we see banners, magazines, newspapers, as well as posters telling us to be environmental friendly and to stop pollution. But do people listen to the advices? Do people realize that pollution is one of the biggest global killers? Pollution is the number 1 cause of death in the developing world; it kills approximately 10 million people every year. It’s hard to tell when and where pollution began.
Urbanization To what extent is urbanization a critical driver of social instability, failure of infrastructure, water crises & the spread of infectious diseases? Urbanization is basically the gradual increase in the proportion of people living in the urban areas or a specific area, and the ways in how the society adapts to it. Urbanization can be a good impact to a country and has the ability to improve its economy and the life of people but it also has the ability to destroy the country and the life of all the people that exist there. GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE:
Sustainable forest management requires three major criteria which are the maintenance of ecological processes within the forest (soil formation, energy flow, biogeochemical cycles (carbon, nutrient and hydrological cycles), maintenance of biodiversity of forest, improving the net social benefits derived from the mixture of forest uses within the constraints by considering the future. Forest provides habitats for more than half of the fauna and flora on the Earth (SCBD, 2001). Forest biome plays an important role in mitigating climate change by serving as carbon sinks (Hassan et al., 2005). Forest land is the most fundamental natural resources which become reduced mainly due to anthropogenic pressures. For proper management of land, it is essential to have information about existing land cover and about the naturalness of the land.
Following the industrial revolution, it took industrialized countries more than 200 years to establish a living standard under which an environmental movement could emerge. Furthermore, the gap worldwide between the rich and the poor is widening (OECD, 2015). As a reaction, the growing population from developing countries understandably demands equitable living conditions compared to citizens in Europe or the United States. However, establishing higher standards of living is opposed to concentrating efforts on reducing emissions. As a result there will be decades of ever-increasing GHGs globally, currently primarily caused by developed countries and by developing countries in the
As the developed countries in Europe and the United States used to build on the backwardness of many underdeveloped countries, the "eco-city" of some developed countries today are also based on the pollution of more developing
According to www.conserve-energy-future.com, the first factor causing environmental degradation is overpopulation. Rinkesh, World’s Top Eco-Conscious Bloggers and website owner, stated that overpopulation leads to excessive consumption of goods and necessities which impacts natural resources. This is because more people demand more food, clothes, shelter and fuel. Because of this demand, their living space needs to be expanded in order to grow food and provide homes for people.