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Major Environmental Problems
Major Environmental Problems
Urban Sprawl
Increased traffic, environmental and health issues
Migrations to cities
Leads to cities getting bigger and bigger
Loss of Biodiversity
Caused by imbalance of natural processes
Ecosystems are in danger after millions of years of development
Extinction of many species
Climate Change
Change of overall weather scenario
Various harmful effects
Change of seasons, melting of ice
occurrence of new diseases
Has been around for a couple of decades
Overpopulation
Intensive agriculture damages the environment
Mostly in less developed countries
The population of the planet is reaching
unsustainable levels
Shortage of resources
Global Warming
Makes flash floods and desertification
Leads to rising temperatures
Causing melting of ice
and rising the sea levels
Mostly made by humans
Ozone Layer Depletion
Gasses make holes in the layer which make its efficiency of protecting less valuable
The ozone layer is an invisible layer of protection around the planet that protects us from Sun's harmful rays
Deforestation
It's a process of simply removing green land
and making it available for residential, idnustrial or commercial purpose
At the moment, forests cover 30% of all land,
but the numbers are leading to smaller percentages really quickly
Forests produce oxygen, but also help at
regulating temperatures and rainfall
Waste Disposal
One of the most dangerous environmental problems
Mostly made by the most developed countries
Caused by overconsumption of resources,
mainly plastic
Natural Resource Depletion
People are taking efforts to shift to
renewable sources of energy
Resulting emission of greenhouse gases
Pollution
Makes the planet a lot uglier
Hundreds of different pollutants exist
Requires millions of years for water, air and land to recoop
