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To make roads, houses, shopping mall, and other buildings, people need to dig up the soil.

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Soil helps us clean water, it also drains it into rivers lakes and oceans. It also provides homes for organisms.

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Mining causes soil loss examples are digging pit mines etc. By exposing rocks to the weather it edits it. Mines can fill with rain water which acid water will go into soil and mess it up.

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The Kyoto Protocol is an agreement that if you are the country using the most fossil fuels, you have to use as much as you did in 1990. America has not agreed yet. Fricking U.S. >:(

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Greenhouse gases can cause global warming, which increases the temperature of the earth. This temperature change can affect food sources, human health, water, and it can kill animals.

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While air pollution is outside, it can be very harmful to us. In the section, Effects of Pollution, it describes that exercising in polluted air can be very harmful to you because you take in more are than at rest.

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Global Warming affects the entire atmosphere. A different way of using fuel instead of coal and gasses that effect the ozone layer might be using technology to fuel different things, and solar panels to reduce the amount of harmful stuff going to the Earth.

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People today use different types of technology to destroy renewable and nonrenewable resources. Ex: People use chainsaws to cut down trees.

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air pollutants many reasons for this are vehicles and make / affect breathing for animals and humans. They cause acid rain.

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Water quality affects the fish and animals. They are affected when pollution from rivers reach lakes and the ocean.

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Our population has increased drastically and we have learned to track it accurately and predict the population of the future. One downside of population growth is the increase of HIV/AIDS and other STDs.

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Fish, lobster, shrimp, etc. are over-fished. This means that they are fished for a lot, sometimes more than the species can reproduce this makes a extinction problem. Laws have been put up in some area to prevent this.

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Humans create 180 Million tons of trash each year.

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In 1960's each person produced 2.7 pounds of trash a day and now it has doubled

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Did you know that recycling 90%of the news papers in the USA would save over 500,000 trees.

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We have many precious resources we need in life. One of those special resources is water. We need clean fresh water to live. Only 3% of Earth's water is fresh. As human population increases this resource will be more difficult.

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Wide spread development causes more trees and natural resources to be cut down and destroyed.

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-Use drip irrigation for farming.
-change habits (shorter showers).
-get low water using faucets.
-fix any broken faucets
-some even say that we can sell the great lake waters, but it's just a idea.

-we should all do these things because in 8 years 1/4 of the world wont have access to water!

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1. Northern Africa and the Middle East have really bad water shortages.
2. The droughts are making the trees more susceptible to diseases and wild fires.
3. The places that suffer from the droughts often have to import food because they can not grow their own.
4. Drought - a long period of abnormally low rainfall.

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1. There are many different thoughts about how water needs to be used
2. People need to learn how to share water because the water is becoming scarce
3. Texas and Mexico had to talk about that because the Rio Grande flows between the two

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1. Pollution can go anywhere water goes
2. Danube River and the Black Sea have lots of pollution
3. Some of the problems are hard to solve, such as acid rain