What will be the future of our environment globally?

Question

What will be the future of our environment globally?

Answer 1

This question depends on how far in the future...  There's going to be change is the simple answer.

Answer 2

The environment is going through 2 opposing processes:

- one is caused by the increase of population and the economic growth in developing countries, which is harming the environment.

- opposing it is the global growing awareness of the damage to the environment, and actions to prevent this damage.

the balance between these 2 opposing processes will determine whether the environment will improve or continue to deteriorate.

Answer 3

Like it hasn't been before. More intence weather will make it hard to grow plants/food. Animals will become more at risk of catching sickness and deseases. Things will evolve faster, and if not they will die.

Answer 4

It has recently been discovered that the carbon molecule that is in our atmosphere used to be contained in the crude oil. It is a special carbon molecule, basicly it fell out of the atmosphere and slowly seeped into the plantlife billions of years ago and was ingested by living creatures, dinosaurs, etc. Fossil fuels are emitting these back into the atmosphere and they take a long, long time to go away. Billions of years again. Takes a while for Mother to clean up. Before they do they help cause the warming effect that melts the ice caps, kills plankton, warms the worlds waters cause's strange weather patterns, storms, changes in things like crippling snowfalls in China, southern parts of the US and creates havoc we have yet to see. Cutting down rainforests takes away vast amounts of oxygen and stops the carbon dioxide filtering. Put all of this together with earthquakes, volcanoes and people going crazy from the preserved and tarnished foods we eat, WHO KNOWS, maybe there is not a future.