What Is the Environment?

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What Is the Environment? The environment is something you are very familiar with. It's everything that makes up our surroundings and affects our ability to live on the earth—the air we breathe , the water that covers most of the earth's surface, the plants and animals around us, and much more. In recent years, scientists have been carefully examining the ways that people affect the environment. They have found that we are causing air pollution, deforestation, acid rain, and other problems that are dangerous both to the earth and to ourselves. These days, when you hear people talk about “the environment”, they are often referring to the overall condition of our planet, or how healthy it is. The world has changed dramatically in the past fifty years. The industrial age and the technological age have disagreed and have greatly influenced the present state of the environment. With the coming of the new age of bioscience and biotechnology, further changes are being made to the world's environment. Issues such as pollution, deforestation and over population have had devastating effects on the environment and most have been because of man's activity rather than natural disasters. Humans created global warming. It is because of their dumping of chemical waste into water which results in the death of under-water wildlife. When the same water evaporates, mixing with sulphur dioxide emitting from factories, it results in acid rain destroying vegetation and buildings, and if mixed with rivers and lakes it can kill aquatic and marine life. Therefore humans are not just the cause of the rise in natural disasters (which do not always harm the environment), they have also played a major role in damaging the environment, and are continuing to do so. At this point, researchers are also reported to have stated that though mass extinctions have been the result of asteroids or

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