Human Effect

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Summary:Deforestation. Mining, Overfishing, and ,Global warming. These are all examples of things Humans do to hurt our environment.  Every choice we make can either deteriorate our world or help sustain it. For example, using air filters or properly disposing our waste is positive. I have also seen how cutting down trees, using fossil fuel, creating more factories, are bad for the environment. Lets explore more examples of  this Human effect.

S&EP: Asking Questions Defining Problems. How hard could it be to sustain a society? I mean you just build homes a few farms, a power plant and you're golden. Well... not exactly. Believe me I would know I played a game this week all about Human Sustainability for 17 minutes straight. I didn't even win. You may feel like you could last a while but really there are so many factors to keep in mind. Every building every action you make has some positive or negative effect on the environment. If you build a cattle ranch its causes greenhouse gases, water depletion, and loss of species  in that existing area. Nothing is easy.

XCC: Stability and Change: As we have been talking about any decision that may seem small may have a world of difference. For example if you cut down that big oak tree on your front lawn it could cause many things. One it can heat up the are around it making the ground and even the over all air quality warmer. This can lead to more use for air conditioning during summer times. Which then causes more energy use for your house hold. On another perspective it can harm the insects and organisms in your grass. They could start dying off because of the heat. This means the food chain is now imbalanced and the grass begins to die as well as the organisms. Just becasue you decided to cut down that oak tree all of this happened. That's the Human effect.