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The document discusses several causes and effects of environmental degradation including global warming, overpopulation, landfills, deforestation, and natural causes. Global warming is likely to increase global temperatures and sea levels and affect human health and agriculture. Overpopulation puts strain on natural resources leading to increased deforestation and loss of biodiversity. Landfills produce foul smells and pollution. Deforestation reduces forests' ability to regulate climate and support wildlife. Natural disasters can also degrade the environment.

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Global Warming

The document discusses several causes and effects of environmental degradation including global warming, overpopulation, landfills, deforestation, and natural causes. Global warming is likely to increase global temperatures and sea levels and affect human health and agriculture. Overpopulation puts strain on natural resources leading to increased deforestation and loss of biodiversity. Landfills produce foul smells and pollution. Deforestation reduces forests' ability to regulate climate and support wildlife. Natural disasters can also degrade the environment.

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Global warming

Global warming which is also referred to as climate change is the observed rise in the average
temperature of the Earth's climate system the global surface temperature is likely to rise a further 0.3 to
1.7 °C in the lowest emissions scenario, and 2.6 to 4.8 °C in the highest emissions scenario. These
readings have been recorded by the “national science academies of the major industrialized nations”.
Future climate change and impacts will differ from region to region. Expected effects include an increase
in global temperatures, rising sea levels, deforestation, imbalance climatic condition, changing
precipitation, and expansion of deserts (Cunningham et al., 1999). Global warming has several adverse
effects on human health, and agricultural production. It leads to an increase in heat-related diseases,
civil conflict, decreases economic sources shown in Figure 2. Besides, it also indirectly affects human
health due to the higher incidence of malaria, dengue, yellow fever and viral encephalitis caused by the
expansion of mosquitoes and other disease carriers to warm areas. The adverse effect on agricultural
production is due to the increased frequency of droughts, floods and hurricanes and increased incidence
of pests, causing a shortage of food. Overpopulation It is very likely that population growth as a missing
scientific agenda accounts in part for the reduced public knowledge and interest in this issue. The extent
of environmental degradation varies across countries and regions of the world. Rapid population growth
puts a strain on natural resources which results in degradation of our environment. The mortality rate
has gone down due to better medical facilities which have resulted in increased lifespan. More
population simply means more demand for food, clothes, and shelter. You need more space to grow
food and provide homes to millions of people. This results in deforestation loss of biodiversity,
destruction of the ecosystem which is another factor of environmental degradation shown in Figure 3. 6
Pradip Kumar Maurya et al. (2020) Environmental Degradation: Causes and Remediation Strategies
Figure 2. Climate variability matters for food insecurity- diagrammatic presentation. Figure 3. Flow chart
indicated the loss of biodiversity through the developmental aspect (Source: Foresight, 2000). 7
Environmental Degradation: Causes and Remediation Strategies Pradip Kumar Maurya et al. (2020)
Landfills Landfills pollute the environment and destroy the beauty of the city. Landfills come within the
city due to the large amount of waste that gets generated by households, industries, factories, and
hospitals. Landfills pose a great risk to the health of the environment and the people who live there.
Landfills produce a foul smell when burned and cause huge environmental degradation. Deforestation
Forests are invaluable property of a nation because they provide raw materials to modern industries,
timber for building purposes, habitats for numerous types of animals and micro-organisms. Good fertile
and nutrient-rich soils having a high content of organic matter offer protection to soils by binding the
soils through the network of their roots and by protecting the soils from the direct impact of falling
raindrops. They encourage and increase the infiltration of rainwater and thus allow maximum recharge
of groundwater resources, minimize surface run-off and hence reduce the frequency, intensity, and
dimension of floods. Deforestation is the cutting down of trees to make way for more homes and
industries. Rapid growth in population and urban sprawl are two of the major causes of deforestation.
Apart from that, the use of forest land for agriculture, animal grazing, harvests for fuelwood and logging
are some of the other causes of deforestation. Deforestation contributes to global warming as
decreased forest size puts carbon back into the environment. Deforestation gives birth to several
problems encompassing environmental degradation through accelerated rate of soil erosion, increase in
the sediment load of the rivers, siltation or reservoirs and river beds, increase in the frequency and
dimension of Hoods and droughts, changes in the pattern of distribution of precipitation, intensification
of greenhouse effects increase in the destructive force of the atmospheric storms, etc. Natural causes
Things like avalanches, quakes, tidal waves, storms, and fires can totally crush nearby animal and plant
groups to the point where they can no longer survive in those areas. This can either come to fruition
through physical demolition as the result of a specific disaster or by the long-term degradation of assets
by the presentation of an obtrusive foreign species to the environment. The latter frequently happens
after tidal waves, when reptiles and bugs are washed ashore, of course, humans aren’t totally to blame
for this whole thing. Earth itself causes ecological issues, as well. While environmental degradation is
most normally connected with the things that people do, the truth of the matter is that the environment
is always changing. With or without the effect of human exercises, a few biological systems degrade to
the point where they can’t help the life that is supposed to live there

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