Environmental issues by daniela rosas

Climate change

danielarosasdelvillar23 — 2024-09-05 15:56:42 UTC

Climate change refers to long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns. This shifts can be natural, due to changes in the sun's activity or large volcanic eruptions

The impacts of climate change include warming temperatures, changes in precipitation, increases in the frequency or intensity of some extreme weather events, and rising sea levels. These impacts threaten our health by affecting the food we eat, the water we drink, the air we breathe, and the weather we experience, effects the food we eat, the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the places that provide us with shelter. Climate change can also impact people's health and well-being by altering the frequency or intensity of extreme weather events and spread of certain pests and diseases.

These issue have diferente consequences

danielarosasdelvillar23 — 2024-09-05 15:58:59 UTC

Can be social, political and environmnetal

Causes

danielarosasdelvillar23 — 2024-09-05 16:02:51 UTC

Generating power

Manufacturing goods

Cutting down forests

Using transportation

Powering buildings

Consuming too much

danielarosasdelvillar23 — 2024-09-05 16:03:27 UTC

Deforestation

danielarosasdelvillar23 — 2024-09-05 16:08:11 UTC

Deforestation or forest clearance is the removal and destruction of a forest or stand of trees from land that is then converted to non-forest use. Deforestation can involve conversion of forest land to farms, ranches, or urban use.

Causes

danielarosasdelvillar23 — 2024-09-05 16:09:50 UTC

Mining

Illegal logging

Urbanization

Agriculture

Climate change

Wildfire

Timber logging

Infrastructure

Overpopulation

Consequences

danielarosasdelvillar23 — 2024-09-05 16:11:03 UTC

danielarosasdelvillar23 — 2024-09-05 16:11:44 UTC

Pollution

danielarosasdelvillar23 — 2024-09-05 16:14:14 UTC

Is the addition of any substance (solid, liquid, or gas) or any form of energy (such as heat, sound, or radioactivity) to the environment at a rate faster than it can be dispersed, diluted, decomposed, recycled, or stored in some harmless form
 Pollution can take the form of any substance or energy. Pollutants, the components of pollution, can be either foreign substances/energies or naturally occurring contaminants.

Causes

danielarosasdelvillar23 — 2024-09-05 16:16:14 UTC

Household combustion devices

Motor vehicles

Industrial facilities

Forest fires

Consequences

danielarosasdelvillar23 — 2024-09-05 16:18:12 UTC

These have consequences special to like Across the board, air pollution — a mixture of particulate matter, metals, and other gases and compounds — causes decreases in happiness and increases in depression. Cognitively, it impairs functioning and decision-making. Economically, it hurts work productivity. And socially, it exacerbates criminal behavior.

danielarosasdelvillar23 — 2024-09-05 16:20:02 UTC