Environmental Degradation Impacts
Have you ever thought about what keeps us living in this world? Is it the air, water, food,
land, plants or animals? All these living and nonliving things in the environment is what
makes life possible in the world. However, human activities are leading to environmental
degradation that has several negative effects.
Human activities are the major cause of environmental degradation. These activities include
pollution, defective environmental policies, chemicals, greenhouse gases, global warming,
ozone depletion. All these affect the environment badly. Besides, these the overuse of
natural resources will lead to no resources for consumption. And the most basic necessity
of living air will get so polluted that humans have to use bottled oxygen for breathing.
The effects of environmental degradation on humans are mainly physical such as
respiratory, in the form of allergies, asthma, irritation of the eyes and nasal passages, or
other forms of respiratory infections. Notably, these well-spread affections can be
observed when air pollution is high in cities, when the weather gets hot, for instance. As
for animals, plants, and especially trees, can be destroyed by acid rains, ozone in the
lower atmosphere block the plant respiration, and harmful pollutants can be absorbed
from the water or soil.
All in all, all living things that live on this earth comes under the environment. Shifting to ecofriendly transportation such as electric vehicles and hydrogen vehicles and promoting
shared mobility (i.e., carpooling, and public transports) could reduce air pollution
significantly. Finally, the earth is considered the only planet in the universe that supports
life.