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Stern's Introductory Plant Biology 13th Edition by James Bidlack,Shelley Jansky,Kingsley Stern

Edition 13ISBN: 978-0073369440
book Stern's Introductory Plant Biology 13th Edition by James Bidlack,Shelley Jansky,Kingsley Stern cover

Stern's Introductory Plant Biology 13th Edition by James Bidlack,Shelley Jansky,Kingsley Stern

Edition 13ISBN: 978-0073369440
Exercise 1
How and to what extent have humans affected their natural environment?
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Humans are completely dependent on natural environment in every part of life like food, clothing and shelter. Due to overpopulation the natural vegetation and ecological balance of nature is disturbed by the man's activities like dumping of waste materials, deforestation, and use of pesticides and release of industrial effluents into sea water.
These in turn affecting the food chain indirectly and other pollutants like burning of fuels and means of transport release the green house gases into the atmosphere leading to acid rains, climatic changes and melting of the mountain peaks.
Thus in the following way the humans are affected by the natural environment.
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