How human activities impact the environment

Surely it is not the first time you read that the planet is our home, and as everywhere we live, whatever we do has its impact. The growth of the world population in recent years has led to the excessive exploitation of resources in order to meet the needs of human beings, passing over those of other living beings, which undoubtedly had its impact on the nature, that's why we show you some of the aspects about how human activities impact on the environment

Overpopulation

Overpopulation has caused a great environmental impact, as it has caused cities to expand towards the outskirts, increasing the construction of homes, which has led to the deforestation of thousands of hectares of green areas inhabited by hundreds of species. that retreat and settle in new territories where there is not always food, leading them to diminish their populations. In addition, the exploitation and excessive use of non-renewable resources has increased in order to meet the needs of human beings

Inhabiting other's habitat

Does the approach to deforestation and how it affects species seem extreme to you? Well, we'll give you an example. The adorable Panda, one of the animals most threatened to become extinct today, was on the verge of disappearing thanks to deforestation, as its main food is bamboo, and fewer and fewer forests where you can find it thanks to the intervention of man . Today this species is very protected due to the pressure of environmental groups, if not for them, today there would be very few

The famous global warming

Global warming, which has caused so much controversy, is part of man's footprint on the environment. For example, if you can comfortably go to your work on a daily basis by bus, but you choose to use the car you are throwing an unnecessary amount of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, as your millions of people do the same, they are millions doing only one activity that has its consequences. Add to that all the household appliances connected, use bulbs that get too hot, leave the computer on 24 hours, etc; small actions that generate heat and have their impact on our planet

Excess production of waste

The concept of the three R's, reduce, reuse, recycle, is in force because it reduces our environmental impact, how ?, we explain. Working on reducing your waste means that it will be necessary to use less machinery and less effort to get rid of them, reusing what can be implied that less useful things will go to waste, filling landfills and sanitary landfills with objects that can to be used, and recycling those elements that are possible means that plastic or glass objects, for example, can be used again without having to be manufactured again. Fewer machines working to erase your waste, fewer factories producing objects that you can use more time, fewer companies heating the planet with processes to make packaging that you can recycle giving them life again

Environmental pollution

Every time someone throws trash in a river, throws a can in a green area, throws some waste in a place it does not belong to, is contaminating the habitat of many species, visible and invisible, and is also forcing the environment to do the effort to biodegrade that object. A chewing gum takes 5 years to disappear from the environment, a can 10 years, a lighter 100 years and a plastic ball up to 150. That's why the fashion of biodegradable products, those that, of throwing themselves into the environment, manage to disappear more easily by forcing less to our planet

Only some examples

These are the most basic examples of how our day-to-day activities: the way you move around the city, how you get rid of your trash, whether or not you abuse the use of electrical appliances, have their impact on the environment, this is why the action of a single person makes the difference for good and bad

What can you do?

In principle be aware of your actions and correct what you can, apply the three R at home and take the message to yours, move around the city in public transport, on foot or by bicycle whenever you can, use LED bulbs, disconnect electrical appliances when you do not use them, avoid contaminating and get involved if it is of interest in environmental causes, your help will make a difference, the planet is our home, take care of it