Effect of human activity on the environment | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 14/06/2019

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00:01:33 1 Causes
00:01:42 1.1 Rapid Growth of Human Population
00:02:30 1.2 Overconsumption
00:04:51 1.3 Technology
00:05:06 1.4 Agriculture
00:06:31 1.4.1 Fishing
00:07:55 1.4.2 Irrigation
00:10:04 1.4.3 Agricultural land loss and soil erosion
00:12:11 1.4.4 Meat production
00:14:53 1.4.5 Palm oil
00:19:27 1.5 Introductions and invasive species
00:19:34 1.6 Energy industry
00:20:25 1.6.1 Biodiesel
00:21:19 1.6.2 Coal mining and burning
00:22:44 1.6.3 Electricity generation
00:23:18 1.6.4 Nuclear power
00:23:49 1.6.5 Oil shale industry
00:25:14 1.6.6 Petroleum
00:26:05 1.6.7 Reservoirs
00:26:32 1.6.8 Wind power
00:28:08 1.7 Light pollution
00:29:20 1.8 Manufactured products
00:30:03 1.8.1 Cleaning agents
00:30:12 1.8.2 Nanotechnology
00:30:29 1.8.3 Leather
00:31:04 1.8.4 Paint
00:31:12 1.8.5 Paper
00:31:52 1.8.6 Plastics
00:32:32 1.8.7 Pesticides
00:32:47 1.8.8 Pharmaceuticals and personal care products
00:33:56 1.9 Mining
00:34:37 1.10 Transport
00:35:30 1.10.1 Aviation
00:37:10 1.10.2 Roads
00:38:12 1.10.3 Shipping
00:38:47 1.11 Military
00:39:55 1.11.1 War
00:40:56 2 Environmental degradation effects
00:41:27 2.1 Mass extinction, defaunation and decline in biodiversity
00:42:18 2.1.1 Death of coral reefs
00:44:49 2.1.2 Decline in amphibian populations
00:46:07 2.1.3 Wastewater
00:46:16 2.2 Global warming
00:47:45 2.3 Habitat destruction
00:49:24 2.4 Land degradation
00:49:48 2.4.1 Desertification
00:50:39 2.5 Ocean acidification
00:50:48 2.6 Ozone depletion
00:50:56 2.7 Water degradation
00:51:05 2.8 Disruption of the nitrogen cycle
00:51:14 3 Effects on human health
00:52:26 3.1 Effects of global warming on human health
00:52:43 3.2 Effects of pollution on human health
00:52:53 4 See also



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Human impact on the environment or anthropogenic impact on the environment includes changes to biophysical environments and ecosystems, biodiversity, and natural resources caused directly or indirectly by humans, including global warming, environmental degradation (such as ocean acidification), mass extinction and biodiversity loss, ecological crisis, and ecological collapse. Modifying the environment to fit the needs of society is causing severe effects, which become worse as the problem of human overpopulation continues. Some human activities that cause damage (either directly or indirectly) to the environment on a global scale include human reproduction, overconsumption, overexploitation, pollution, and deforestation, to name but a few. Some of the problems, including global warming and biodiversity loss pose an existential risk to the human race, and overpopulation causes those problems.The term anthropogenic designates an effect or object resulting from human activity. The term was first used in the technical sense by Russian geologist Alexey Pavlov, and it was first used in English by British ecologist Arthur Tansley in reference to human influences on climax plant communities. The atmospheric scientist Paul Crutzen introduced the term "Anthropocene" in the mid-1970s. The term is sometimes used in the context of pollution emissions that are produced from human activity but also applies broadly to all major human impacts on the environment.