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    The document discusses various human impacts on the environment, both positive and negative. It notes that while humans plant trees to help the environment, human activities like pollution and deforestation harm it. Specifically, the burning of fossil fuels releases pollutants into the air, degrading air quality and health. Deforestation causes erosion, changes to water systems, drier microclimates, and increased mosquito habitats, raising malaria rates. The essay concludes that the human population inevitably impacts the environment both positively and negatively and hopes that humans can minimize negative impacts over time.

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    The document discusses various human impacts on the environment, both positive and negative. It notes that while humans plant trees to help the environment, human activities like pollution and deforestation harm it. Specifically, the burning of fossil fuels releases pollutants into the air, degrading air quality and health. Deforestation causes erosion, changes to water systems, drier microclimates, and increased mosquito habitats, raising malaria rates. The essay concludes that the human population inevitably impacts the environment both positively and negatively and hopes that humans can minimize negative impacts over time.

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    Week 3 Essay

    Every living thing has an impact on its environment. Therefore, a human impact on the

    environment is inevitable. By simply existing, all species-including humans-will imprint their

    mark on the world around them. As the population grows, humans are taking the worlds natural

    resources. Humans positively affect the Earth by planting trees they cut down, but they also

    negatively affect the Earth by pollution and deforestation.

    Humans help the environment by planting trees. Trees not only remove harmful chemicals

    from the soil, but also help reduce the greenhouses leading to global warming. Arbor Day is a

    worldwide holiday that gets people motivated to plant trees. This is a very important holiday

    because with more people planting trees the more it helps the environment. Even though humans

    help the environment by planting trees, they also harm the environment with pollution.

    Pollution is a serious problem in the environment. People burn fossil fuels to run cars,

    industrial factories, and power plants. This releases carbon monoxide, ozone and nitrous

    oxides, into the atmosphere (Martonas). Releasing lead-based compounds into the air can lead

    to serious health effects like cancer, or other types of reproductive effects and birth defects

    (Martonas). Humans also put too many nutrients into the soil, which can reduce water quality as

    well as causes bacteria and algae to grow too much. This results in the use of oxygen that is

    necessary for other species to survive. Humans are slowing poisoning the Earth and the

    creatures on it.

    Deforestation is another problem that is caused by humans. It causes severe

    environmental changes to the landscape. Erosion can change the types of sediments flowing

    into the water systems and could even change the shape of rivers and streams (Harvey).

    Erosion happens when trees are uprooted and the dirt the trees were holding down, is now loose
    and free to drift around. Deforestation can also make the microclimate of an environment drier

    as well as increase surface runoff overall in an environment. In recent studies, it is show that

    high historical rates of deforestation...were associated with higher rates of infection (Harvey).

    Deforestation is causes mosquitos to come closer to humans than before, which, in turn, is

    making malaria rates increase. Deforestation is detrimental to an environment.

    The human population tends to have an impact on the environment. Sometimes it can be

    good, like planting trees, but other times it can be tragic, like pollution or deforestation. As time

    goes on hi,and will continue to have an impact on the world, like every other living species.

    Maybe someday the human population will find a way to do more good impact than bad, if it is

    even possible.
    Works Cited

    Harvey, Chelsea. "By cutting down forests, humans may be giving themselves malaria." Newsela

    5 January 2016. Document.

    . "Why saving the Amazon means saving more than just trees." Newsela 11 January 2016.

    Document.

    Writer, Leaf Group. "Effect of Human Activities on the Environment." Effect of Human

    Activities on the Environment | Education - Seattle PI. Seattle PI, 29 Sept. 2016. Web. 05 May

    2017.

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