Sci207 Week 1 Assignment

Inovation and Sustainablility Victor Mota SCI207 Dependence of Man on the Environment Cynthia Collins October 7, 2012 Production and Consumption The human population is ripening rapidly and this is affecting the well-being of our planet. The way people use material resources is a nonher thing that affects the planet. The production and consumption of material resources could bring the earth to an end. The both production habits that I will talk about are the production of paper and production of oil color. The production of paper affects forests.Forests provide homes for numerous numbers of arrange and animal species. They also help maintain water quality and stabilize the climate by absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Forests are not the only ones stirred by paper production. The process of papermaking is chemical process. The paper industries release chemicals into water and air. Thrown away paper also affects the environment. In the land-fills paper can collapse an d produce methane, a greenhouse gas with 21 times the heat-trapping power of carbon dioxide.Some of the efforts to consider are cut fewer trees down, produce less paper, write on both sides of paper, and start recycling paper. The production of oil can constitute severe damage to the environment. Oil waste dumping and oil spills cause serious damage on surrounding wildlife and habitat. The oil production has already harmed many land, air, and sea animal and plant species. The oil pollutes water and kills fish. The production of oil can also affect human life. The damage can include pollution of drinking water, livestock and health of the human body itself.Beef is a perfective example of using resources wastefully and is causing our environment to be degraded. In the Amazon and other places the rainforests are being cleared in order to ready cattle and about 70 to 80% of the grain that is produced in the United States is fed to livestock. The areas that are being cleared for rais ing cattle are not so much for local consumptions, but for producing more fast food restaurants in other parts of the globe Reference Turk, J. (2011) Contemporary Environmental Issues. (Section 1. 5) San Diego, CA. Bridgepoint Education, Inc. regular army