What is the greatest way that people negatively affect the environment? Need soon!?

Question

Im doing a persuasive essay on how much people as a whole effect the environment & I need some ideas.

PLEASE!!

Answer 1

manufacturing, especially over seas, huge companies take advantage of poor countries with little air pollution laws. If you've ever been to Bangkok you would be able to see the smog in the air.

Also junk food and food that has a lot of packaging, Americans make an insane amount of garbage, even if we recycle, it still won't make up for all the garbage we produce

Answer 2

Plastic bags, water bottles etc AND they have too many children.

Answer 3

By intentionally trying to change it.

Answer 4

water run off

motor vehicle waste

human and animal waste

factories and plants illegal dumping

nuclear waste created by power plants

Answer 5

The millions of tons of sewage we make is our biggest problem on the environment.

Answer 6

Driving crappy cars that are blowing so much smoke that they shouldn't even be on the road, not bothering to recycle because they are LAZY, throwing plastics into the water where animals, fish and birds get caught up in them...I could go on.

Answer 7

Having children.

Answer 8

The biggest thing is the population. If there were less people we would have less problems... you can link everything to the large human population.

The second is BURNING FOSSIL FUELS-  coal, oil, and natural gas.

It can be connected to almost every environmental problem.

Also less people means less fossil fuels use if you want to tie everything bellow to population.  

1.Global Warming: CO2, N20, CH4, CFCs, H2O are the main greenhouse gasses, CO2 being the worst out of these five. The greenhouse effect within itself is natural because earth needs an atmosphere. However, as we produce more of these greenhouse gasses we clog up natural gaps in the atmosphere trapping heat from escaping back out to space and causing it to reflect back to the earth's surface.

Since the industrial revolution there has been a dramatic rise in atmospheric CO2 levels that share a direct relationship with rising temperatures.

Since global warming changes the earth's climate it effects everything associated with climate. The melting of the polar ice caps, increasing hurricanes and other tropical storms, desertification, habitat destruction, forest fires, and rising sea levels can all be connected to rising temperatures thus, global warming and the burning of fossil fuels.

2. Fossil fuels also release other pollutants such as CO (carbon monoxide), NOx (Nitrogen oxides, NO2, NO4... etc), SOx (Sulfur oxides... etc), aswell as other particulate matter. They can be released industrially through factories, or locally through cars... etc. These can do one of two things:

(a) They stay in the air and become pollutants causing many problems such as toxic smog, and reparatory illnesses.  



(b) They react with water in the atmosphere to create acid rain. Acid rain is destructive to plants (corrodes leaves & bark), to wildlife, to man-made structures, and to marine creatures in lakes and other water bodies as the acid can collect in the lakes and raise the pH making them dangerous for many marine creatures.

3. Biomagnification of Mercury.

Biomagnification is when a toxin concentrates as it travels up the food chain.

Burning coal releases mercury which can be deposited in plant life through the soil. So when an animal (in particular fish) eats several of the contaminated plants, it becomes contaminated itself, and has a higher concentration of mercury inside it. This process is repeated when the first animal is eaten by a predator higher on the food chain... etc.

See this picture for better explanation:

http://www.clf.org/uploadedImages/Mercur...

4. Oil & Alternative energy.

We’re Running out of oil, coal, natural gas, they are nonrenewable, forms over hundred of years.

Oil spills – habitat destruction

5. Urbanization & Industrialization causes deforestation. Photosynthesis removes CO2 from the atmosphere. This is also fueled by the population growth.

Answer 9

we wear the old girl out , just to many of us

Answer 10

I think that we burn too many greenhouse gases. If the government gave us all fuel-effiecient cars, then maybe that would have an impact on our ecosysytem and make it better. After all with so many cars on American roads take them all away and put fuel effecient ones instead and that's a big difference.

Answer 11

The question deserves a question in return... would there be negative impacts to the enviro without people on the earth?... Could a volcano spewing gases be considered "pollution" and negative impact? Would a mega-volcano 100 miles wide, that destroyed the atmosphere as we know it? Or would all this be natural and benign? Now onto my thought for the real world... I would take the safe and yet controversial position that "people", too many people, negatively impact the environment. Reduce the planet to an island in the Pacific and cram it with just one extra person too many and even a stable, well balanced, sustainable island culture 1000's of years old can begin to "eat" it's own resource, cut all it's trees, fish out it's nurseries, destroy its own survival, while watching and knowing what they are about to do.

Answer 12

Cow farts. Write your entire essay about cow farts. Trust me.

Answer 13

Having more children than 2. Population expansion is the root cause of pollution and natural resource depletion.

Answer 14

Oil use

for cars and plastics

this is a non renewable resource unless you count a billion years....

But Oil and pollution from burning fossil fuels!

Answer 15

I think fat people greatly affect the environment because they use more resources than thin people. Write your essay on McDonalds.

Answer 16

Get the world off an oil addiction.

There are other ways of creating energy and fueling cars (liquid hydrogen), these need to be researched, and built so that the technology aboloshes the oil industry.

1. Oil Industry rips apart 3rd world countries, ruins ecosystems and raises the level of poverty in a country where they are extracting it from....ie. south america, middle east (with exception to Saudi Arabia), and Africa.

2. Not only do they wreck some of the most lush forests of the world and kill off entire species, the amount of polution that is released into the air is another thing to look at.

3.Oil Spills

4.sparks wars...which also wreaks havoc on ecosystems

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Answer 17

the guy who discovered putting lead in petrol reduced engine knocking.

Answer 18

wasting water, polluting, smoking,

car fumes, not recycling