Natural Environment Survival Depends On Humanities Abilities To Control The Man-Made Pollution Created, Or The Natural Environment Will Have Disastrous Consequences
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Since the creation of mankind, they have thrived to survive on nature’s land. In the modern age, it’s nature’s turn to survive. That’s why the natural environment survival depends on humanities abilities to control the man-made pollution created, or the natural environment will have disastrous consequences. If societies don’t react, there will be vast ecological tragedies, but by reacting to this issue the benefits could help save the environment. Threw the amount of waste & pollution created, the consequences and the benefits of reacting to these issues society will be able to ecological prosper and be in harmony with nature.
Today’s societies are creating vast amount of waste which directly contributes to the total amount of human pollution on earth. In the United States of America only, according to Al Gore “[humans] generate more than five pounds a day for every citizen in [that] country.” (Gore 137) Those statistics are demonstrating the amount of waste that has to be placed in landfills to accommodate the vast amount of waste generated. As if that wasn’t enough, the United States of America citizen “ produces more than twice his or her weight in waste every day” (Gore 138) It’s astonishing how the Americans in these statistics are polluting the planet. Even worse, according to Rachel Carson “… all man’s assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers and sea with dangerous and lethal materials.” (Carson 126) Mankind is destroying every aspect of nature, leaving behind a sad image of what was once a lustrous, pure world. The other problem is, if they aren’t destroying the planet, they are altering it. There are a lot of new chemicals being introduced on the planet each year with staggering figures like “500 new chemicals to which the bodies of men and animals are required somewhat to adapt each year” (Carson 127) Although, one of the only things known on Earth that consumes pollutions like carbon dioxide (CO2) are the plant lives. The industrial nations are cutting down and consuming more tress then they can reforest. Also, toxins and pollutants kill the aquatic plant lives in the oceans like algae’s. Today’s societies are practically destroying anything that was once considered as pure and natural. The reaction of mankind is required for the natural environment to survive.
The consequences if society keeps neglecting the nature limits could be devastating. If they don’t react to this urging need, the environment could drastically change, an example of this crisis is the melting of the Greenland ice sheet in which “… over the next 1,000 years ocean levels could go up by seven meters” (Marsden 134) If the ocean levels rise to these new heights, it could cause large-scale economic issues and many cities, such as New Orleans, that are already considered to be below sea level will have grim consequences. Rising sea level may be one of the most costly and traumatic effects of all of these environmental changes. The world as societies knows are changing in drastic forms, even scientist have proved “That the world is experiencing enormous extremes in weather, like more powerful hurricanes and tornados, then ever before.” (Marsden 134) The U.S. economy was severely hurt by Katrina in 2005; New-Orleans was stained and unrecognizable after Katrina ravaged it. The consequences of climate changing could impact the hurricane seasons, they would be more intense and could actually be extended as the Atlantic Ocean becomes warmer, longer during the summer months, which could fuel the hurricanes. Also, with climate changes there are more forest fires around the world, producing carbon dioxide that is going directly into the atmosphere, becoming another net source of carbon production, an example is in the Canadian boreal forests “… more than 2 million hectares of boreal forest burns in the North America each year.” (Munro Handout) The world is reacting to the man-made pollution, if today’s societies don’t react to these unforeseen consequences,