How are humans affecting the planet

HOW ARE HUMANS AFFECTING THE PLANET?
1. Over population, pollution, burning fossil fuels, and deforestation. Changes like these
have triggered climate change, soil erosion, poor air quality, and undrinkable water.
These negative impacts can affect human behavior and can prompt mass migrations
or battles over clean water.
2. over population is increases demand for food, water, energy, healthcare, transportation,
and many more. and all those consumptions contributes to ecological degradation,
increased conflicts, and a higher risk large scale disasters like pandemics.
B) Air pollution affects all things. It is harmful to our health, and it impacts the
environment by reducing visibility and blocking sunlight, causing acid rain, and harming
forests, wildlife, and agriculture. Greenhouse gas pollution, the cause of climate change,
affects the entire planet.
c) When fossil fuels are burned, they release large amounts of carbon dioxide, a
greenhouse gas, into the air. Greenhouse gases trap heat in our atmosphere, causing
global warming. Already the average global temperature has increased.
d) Deforestation and forest degradation are responsible for around 15% of

all greenhouse gas emissions. These greenhouse gas emissions contribute to rising
temperatures, changes in patterns of weather and water, and an increased frequency of
extreme weather.
What can be done to resolve the problem?
1. How you can solve the over population is by having fewer kids one or two is fine. You can
also consider adoption for other children’s who have no family and need to be taken care of.
2. What we can do to help the environment and stop air pollution is by burning less coal, less
the impact of cars, conserve energy, monitor air quality warnings and take action on poor air
quality days and last thing is to take action within your community to find solutions to air
population.
3. If we want to stop burning fossil fuels then turning off your lights, computers, televisions,
video games and other electrical equipment when your not using them. If you want to
conserve energy then you should buy equipment’s that uses less electricity’s , including
lights, air conditions, heaters, refrigerators, or you can limit the use of air conditioning.
4. Reduce beef consumptions, enfranchise local people, introduce discipline into supply chains
I think deforestations is the biggest threat because we mentioned planting more forests
above, and sadly at a time when we need more forests, trees are being uprooted at an
alarming rate. Deforestation is a rapidly- growing problem in areas like Africa, Central and
South America. Not only does this mean less trees, less cleansing oxygen, and the
displacement of the wildlife, deforestation means a dangerous decrease in a natural
fighter of global warming – the #1 threat to our Earth right now. Removing trees also
leads to much drier climates, as trees extract groundwater to release into the air.
Our tropical rainforests, which are crucial to stabilizing the climate and to human
survival, are being chopped down at a breakneck pace – one and a half acres of
rainforest are lost every second. Humans have already chopped down about 50% of the
rainforests that once existed on the planet and at the current rate of destruction, we will
completely destroy the rainforests in the next 40 years. If rainforests are so important,
why are they being destroyed so carelessly? Short-sighted governments and multi-
national logging companies only see the forests as a way to make money by selling
timber – they don’t consider the long-term effects.
Luckily, deforestation is an issue that we as individuals can combat. By using recycled

paper, we can decrease the need to cut down as many trees and by buying goods
made with FSC-certified wood, we can show retailers that we don’t want them to
support brands that obtain lumber irresponsibly. Last but not least, why not plant a tree
or even a hundred trees like this man did.
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d) Deforestation and forest degradation are responsible for around 15% of

Luckily, deforestation is an issue that we as individuals can combat. By using recycled

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