Cause and Effects of the Devastation of Nature
Cause and Effects of the Devastation of Nature
The devastation of nature is a global concern nowadays. It is because the changes that’s been done to nature which is caused mostly by human activities. When we pollute the air, land and water, this harms the nature. Bulldozing wetlands and cutting down forest also destroys the nature. These are only few of the activities that contribute to the devastation of nature.
Overgrazing and groundwater pumping are some of the activities that damage the land. Overgrazing is one cause of soil erosion, in which it turns grassland into desert where soil is eroded and becomes harder for plants and trees to grow in that area which will affect the lives living there. Soil erosion is a natural process but it becomes a problem when human activity causes it to occur much faster that under natural conditions. Groundwater also contributes damages to land where it is the cause for land subsidence. Land subsidence is cause by the loss of support below ground because when we pump water sometimes soil is also taken, thus leads for soil to collapse, compact and drops.
For the damages to some bodies of water, we are experiencing thermal pollution; this is the degradation of water quality by any process that changes ambient water temperature. Dumping of radioactive waste and also warmed water from Power and Nuclear plants leads to thermal pollution. It’s because these activities increases the temperature thus decreases oxygen in the water, creating anaerobic conditions thereby disrupting the ecological balance.
We human beings are so fortunate to be living in a bountiful land full of resources where it is enough for us to live, but for some reason sometimes we alter this land for our own different reasons. We reshape the world to fit our individual needs, and the Earth just doesn’t work that way. Aldo Leopold (1953) said in one of his books “Why is it that conservation is so rarely practiced by those who must extract a living
The devastation of nature is a global concern nowadays. It is because the changes that’s been done to nature which is caused mostly by human activities. When we pollute the air, land and water, this harms the nature. Bulldozing wetlands and cutting down forest also destroys the nature. These are only few of the activities that contribute to the devastation of nature.
Overgrazing and groundwater pumping are some of the activities that damage the land. Overgrazing is one cause of soil erosion, in which it turns grassland into desert where soil is eroded and becomes harder for plants and trees to grow in that area which will affect the lives living there. Soil erosion is a natural process but it becomes a problem when human activity causes it to occur much faster that under natural conditions. Groundwater also contributes damages to land where it is the cause for land subsidence. Land subsidence is cause by the loss of support below ground because when we pump water sometimes soil is also taken, thus leads for soil to collapse, compact and drops.
For the damages to some bodies of water, we are experiencing thermal pollution; this is the degradation of water quality by any process that changes ambient water temperature. Dumping of radioactive waste and also warmed water from Power and Nuclear plants leads to thermal pollution. It’s because these activities increases the temperature thus decreases oxygen in the water, creating anaerobic conditions thereby disrupting the ecological balance.
We human beings are so fortunate to be living in a bountiful land full of resources where it is enough for us to live, but for some reason sometimes we alter this land for our own different reasons. We reshape the world to fit our individual needs, and the Earth just doesn’t work that way. Aldo Leopold (1953) said in one of his books “Why is it that conservation is so rarely practiced by those who must extract a living