Seven Environmental Issues

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Environmental Issues on Global Health

Seven Environmental Issues

Complete the following chart by identifying seven environmental issues that affect global health. In the second column, describe in complete sentences how the issue affects global health.

|Environmental issue |How does the issue affect global health? |
|Conservation |It is our job as stewards of the earth to ensure we have maintained our planet for the |
| |future |
|Environmental degradation |This is the deterioration of the environment which will cause farming, fishing, and |
| |harvesting of food sources to deplete. |
|Land degradation |This is where the biophysical makeup of the land is degraded to the point of sterility. |
| |Which will turn our productive land in to barren wasteland. |
|Pollution |Contaminants coming into the environment causing the air, water and soil to become harmful|
| |to humans. |
|Reservoirs |Reservoirs cause an increase in global water saturation, much the same as global warming |
| |increases temperature this increases humidity. |
|Toxins |Toxins are the hazardous materials that are leached into the environment. |
|Waste |Waste is the byproducts we leave behind,