The Biodiversity Crisis Impact of nutrition on the environment Researches say that society has contaminated lands and rivers with chemical wastes and poisons, fouled shorelines with massive spills of oil and altered the chemistry of the air on which life depends.
Ozone depletion continues.
Forests have been destroyed to provide land for industries and cattle farming. There has been massive extinction of species because the animal habitats are destroyed. Scientists realise that forests and grasslands are very important for transferring carbon between the atmosphere, vegetation and soil . However, they point out that the green areas continue to be reduced and depleted to make way for more cattle . The environmental damage that occurs in converting forests to pasture for beef production is well known .