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What are 20 different ways humans are destroying the Earth?

Give me specifics..not just "global warming"

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  • 8 years ago
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    First of all, we are not "destroying the Earth" - we are destroying our environment on Earth.

    Pollution:

    air pollution

    ocean pollution (acidification)

    clean water pollution (in rivers and ground water)

    land subsidence due to unsustainable over extraction of ground water

    land subsidence due to unsustainable over extraction of oil and natural gas

    land subsidence due to underground removal of coal

    wasteful over use of natural resources, including

    coal

    oil

    natural gas

    wood

    water

    metals (Cu, Pb, Zn, Au, Ag, Pt, etc.)

    building materials (clay, silica, gypsum, limestone)

    clear cutting forests reducing trees that take up CO2 and reducing available habitats for other life

    urbanization reducing vegetation, decreasing animal and plant habitats, increasing instances of soil erosion dust storms, destroying wetlands

    over grazing, over farming (less fertile soils), over fishing are all unsustainable

    waste disposal on land, underground, in rivers, in oceans

    increasing CO2 emissions increasing global warming and causing climate change

  • 8 years ago

    polution: people are throwing away a lot of things that can be recycled

    toxic waste: just by us pooping we are destroying the ozon layer

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