Managing our changing envrionment

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Managing Our Changing Environment

Chapter 6

Our Constantly Changing Environment

We change the environment to make our lifes feel comfortable

benefit us in many ways, but they have huge impacts on the environment.

Growing world population

The rapid growth of the world's population

an increase in the demand for natural resources.

Advances in technology

As technology advances, the rate in which the environment changes also increases.

pace of industrialisation has also increased

Impact of Human Activities on the Environment

Pollution is the introduction of substances into the environment such that it results in unpleasant or damaging effects to the environment.

Global warming is the increase in air temperatures throughout the world.

Ozone depletion is the gradual destruction of the ozone layer caused mainly by the release of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) into the atmosphere.

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