ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY Part 2

Environment and Society.

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So, tell me, what exactly is the environment?

​Environment

An environment is everything that is around us, which includes both living and non-living things such as soil, water, animals, and plants, which adapt themselves to their surroundings.

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Human Evolution

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List out the points about how a man affects the world around him.

​​Over Population

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​​Pollution

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​​Water Pollution

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​​Deforestation

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​Ways Humans Impact the Environment

​Environmental pollution is "the contamination of the physical and biological components of the earth/atmosphere system to such an extent that normal environmental processes are adversely affected.

Global Warming

​​Depletion of the ozone layer

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​​Extinction of biodiversity​

​Some of the problems of the environment

pollution

​Environmental crisis

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​It is a catastrophic situation in which the typical pattern of life or ecosystem has been disrupted and needs timely interventions to save or preserve the environment. Some of them are global warming, the greenhouse effect, climate change, acid rain, ozone depletion, etc.

Reasons for the threat to the environment

• The need to meet the increasing energy requirements

• impact of industrialisation.

• expanding urbanisation.

• a massive quantity of solid waste.

• The growing requirements of the enormous population

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List how you can contribute to saving the environment.

Solid waste is an alternate term for garbage management.

The broad categories of garbage are:

• Organic waste

• Toxic waste

• Recycle waste.

• Hospital waste​

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​Solid Waste Management

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