It is high time for human beings to go green and take initiatives towards saving the earth from major environmental issues. If ignored today, these ill effects are sure to curb human existence in the near future. Engineering developments are resulting in resource depletion and environmental change and climate change destruction.
Here are 10 significant current environmental issues, where human beings play an important role in its cause.
1. Pollution: Pollution is not only limited to water, soil and noise but has extended to light, visual, point and non-point sources. Human beings and their actions are majorly responsible for causing all wild and wacky types of pollution.
2. Climate Change: Climate change is rapidly occurring due to the ill effects of human actions responsible for disturbing and harmful out comings such as global warming, greenhouse effect, etc. Some of these include melting of Polar Regions, occurrence of new diseases and permanent inhibition in growth of certain plants essential for human survival.
3. Global Warming: This is is another environmental issue which is - increase in earth’s temperature due to the effect of greenhouse gases. Without these gases, this planet would turn be cold for life to exist. Global warming can have long-lasting effects which can result in melting of glaciers, climate change, droughts, and diseases.
4. Deforestation: Deforestation means, clearing of forests for means of agriculture, industrial or urban use. It involves the permanent end of forest cover to make that land available for the residential, commercial or industrial purpose.
The long-term effects of deforestation are devastating as they may cause floods, soil erosion, an increase in global warming, wildlife extinction etc.
5. Overpopulation: This is a never-ending human tragedy which is responsible for causing all types of environmental issues. Despite efforts taken by the government. overpopulation is difficult to control at international level.
6. Industrial and Household Waste: The presence of huge landfills sites across the city pose serious environmental concerns. It affects human health, degrades soil quality, effects wildlife etc.
7. Acid Rain: Acid rain can occur in the form of rain, snow, fog. Acid rain may cause due to erupting volcanoes, rotting vegetation, bacterial decomposition and lightening generate nitrogen dioxide.
8. Ozone Layer Depletion: The main cause of depletion of ozone layer is determined as excessive release chlorofluorocarbons. CFCs are found to have a direct impact on the depletion of the ozone layer.
9. Genetic Engineering: Genetic modification of food, human and animal organs seems like the gem of science and technology but has major harmful effects.
10. Urban Sprawl: Today almost all countries are using the land irresponsibly to meet the ever-growing demand of the greedy human wishes. A natural environment consisting of flora and fauna is indiscriminately destructed and lost completely instead of being replaced. http://www.gogreenindia.co.in/acrossindia/
