Environmental Crisis

Increasing demands on diminishing resources

Demands accelerate as the population grows
Increasing production of wastes

Factors
Overpopulation
Urbanization
industralization
low regard for environmental/ land ethics
inadequacy of institutions to cope with environmental
stresses
Major Environmental Problems
Pollution
it is the presence in or introduction
into the environment of a substance
which has harmful or poisonous
effects.
Cause and Effects of Pollution
Air Pollution Environmental Degradation
Water Pollution Human Health
Soil Pollution Global Warming
Noise Pollution Deplation of the Ozone Layer
Radioactive Pollution Infertile Land
Light Pollution
Deforestation
means cutting down the trees to
a large extent be it forest, any
barren land or trees we see on
our way to school everyday
 Logging
 Mining  Soil erosion
 Urbanization  Green House Gas
 Timber Production Emission
 Forest Fire  Biodiversity
Losses
 Floods
 Species Extinction
occurs when species are diminished
because of environmental forces or
because of evolutionary changes in
 Loss of Habitat their members.
 Over Harvesting of
living organisms
 Global Climate
Change
 Pollution
 Human
Overpopulation
 Soil Degradation
is the decline in soil condition
caused by its improper use or poor
management, usually for
agriculture, industrial, or urban
purposes.
 Physical Factors  Land degradation
 Biological Factors  Drought and aridity
 Chemical Factors  Loss of arable land
 Deforestation  Increased flooding
 Misuse or excess use of  Pollution and clogging
fertilizers of waterways
 Industrial and Mining
activities
 Improper cultivation
practices
 Urbanization
 Overgrazing
Overpopulation
occurs when a species population exceeds the
carrying capacity of its ecological niche. It is
also the condition of being populated with
excessively large numbers.
 Global Warming
is a long-term rise in the average temperature of
the Earth's climate system, an aspect of climate
change shown by temperature measurements
and by multiple effects of the warming.
Climate change
 a change in global or regional climate patterns,
in particular a change apparent from the mid to
late 20th century onwards and attributed
largely to the increased levels of atmospheric
carbon dioxide produced by the use of fossil
fuels.