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Human Effects On The Environment. Ocean Acidification Ecological human effects on the planet are now about 40 greater than the planet can support in a sustainable fashion Grossman 2010. People have always aimed higher and tried to become more prosperous. Humans affect the environment in positive and negative ways. This often happened at the expense of the environment which started deteriorating once humans took over the world.
The impacts of human activity on the environment are from the time of our very earliest ancestors. Among the most critically impactful ways that humans have affected the environment is our extraction and consumption of fossil fuels and their attendant CO2 emissions. Human impact on the environment or anthropogenic impact on the environment includes changes to biophysical environments and ecosystems biodiversity and natural resources caused directly or indirectly by humans including global warming environmental degradation such as ocean acidification mass extinction and biodiversity loss ecological crisis and ecological collapse. On Positive and negative effects human have on environment. The word environment also refers to the interaction of all living species with the natural resources and other components of the environment. Changes like these have triggered climate change soil erosion poor air quality and undrinkable water.
Climate change encompasses not only rising average temperatures but also extreme weather events shifting wildlife populations and habitats rising seas and a range of other impacts.
Humans are mainly responsible for the destruction of the environment. How do humans affect the environment. And changes in. Among the most critically impactful ways that humans have affected the environment is our extraction and consumption of fossil fuels and their attendant CO2 emissions. One of the many areas with significant damage is the marine biosphere. Plastic pollution deforestation and air pollution are only some of the ways humans are damaging the environment.