It is impossible to imagine a healthy humanity without a clean and prosperous living environment.
The psychology of health and long life is, first of all, education in early childhood in the child there is a feeling of respect and love for nature.
Nature is not only forests and lakes, it is ALL living things, the entire Cosmos. This is what surrounds a person, this is the primary environment, without which his full-fledged, unburdened existence, physical and spiritual health simply unthinkable. The idea of separating man from Nature, declaring him “the crown of creation and transferring into his jurisdiction and undivided use the world of Living Nature and all its riches is a violation of the “Primordial balance”. Man is a part of nature. When he ceases to feel himself as this part, harmony is disturbed, which leads to disaster.
The destruction of nature always entails consequences, one of which is the irreversible spiritual loss of modern man, cut off from his folk roots.
It is very difficult to educate, instill love and respect for Nature, creating a huge environmental problem. The senseless mass destruction of animals, trees, and bodies of water is a threat to earthly prosperity, a harbinger of the death of the living world.
Man needs to come to his senses and understand that without nature, not only healthy offspring, but the very life of humanity is impossible! Changes in Nature will lead man to mutations. Each of us must feel responsible for everything that happens around us, for the land that belongs to everyone - who came before us and who will come after us.
The psychology of health and longevity begins with the feeling of being part of this unique beauty of Nature, with love for insects, dogs and cats... And this love should be based on such concepts as duty, memory, conscience.
How to do it?
Original taken from oleg_bubnov in Love for Nature for children and adults
How much people consider themselves nature lovers and try to spend a significant part of their free time away from the bustle of the city! After a vacation or weekend, after inhaling fresh air Having bathed well and gained strength, we return home with new impressions. Love for nature ennobles a person, makes him kinder and purer, if only it is true love.
What is our love? Is it mutual? How do we feel about what we love?
Child's love for nature
The little man, developing, learns about the world. Initially, children have the potential to love all living things. And if a child, growing up, begins to destroy nature and animals, then adults are primarily to blame for this, because fostering a love for nature begins from infancy, and it is very important to instill in time a sense of responsibility for all life on earth.
We teach to love small things
It is important that the child understands: even the smallest creature is worthy of life. Let cultivating a love for nature begin with insects. One-year-old babies are actively exploring the world, and their attention is attracted by bright butterflies, bugs, and ants. The child wants to touch everything and test its strength. He does not yet understand the fragility of the creatures around him, so he needs to be taught to treat even a bug with care.
Explain to your child that when he squeezes a beetle in his hand, he hurts the insect, tell your child more about the world of insects, look at pictures in books. And your efforts will gradually begin to bear fruitful fruit. Rescue ladybugs and bugs with your child. Let the child remove the insect from the road where it could be crushed, or get the bug out of the puddle. Praise the little rescuer. After all, he did a good, good deed.
Cats and dogs are best friends
Very often, pets become children's favorites. They are great at raising young researchers big world. Playing with cats or dogs teaches a child to treat animals with care and to empathize. It is not uncommon to see young children talking to " little brothers" After all, for them such communication is more useful and better than any toys. And you can’t replace it with anything.
Don't feel afraid that something is wrong with your child when he tries to pick up a kitten by the tail or pokes a dog in the eye with his finger. This is not because the baby is cruel. It’s just how children learn about the world, they need to touch everything, conduct a little experiment. The child does not yet understand that animals experience pain just like people. And your job is to explain it. Tell them that animals are fragile and can be hurt or harmed. Do not leave your child alone with the animal; always monitor the communication process so that you can always correct the child’s actions. Your time together is another contribution to nurturing a love of nature.
Tell your child more about the habits and habits of animals, so that the child knows the characteristics of small pets and learns to love and understand them. Involve your baby in caring for your cat or dog. Of course, the child will not immediately acquire the habit of caring for or feeding a pet. But gradually your goodwill and warmth will bring results. The child will begin to develop responsibility and love.
Green friends
Along with animals, instill a love for plants. Let your baby help care for indoor flowers. This is also a part of nature, which teaches love and spiritual beauty. Let the baby water “his” flower. Let him plant a sprout or seed and watch how “his” plant gradually grows. After all, cultivating a love for nature lies in the little things that a little later will give you a kind, caring person who loves the world around him.
Adult love for nature
For example, consider a couple of situations that almost each of us has repeatedly observed. Here a group of young people with large backpacks and packages gathered, as they often say now, to “have fun” in nature. They took with them a powerful music system and enough strong drinks to feed a company of soldiers. How they will “rest” and what they will bring to their surroundings is not difficult to guess. Somewhere on the banks of a river or lake they pitched tents and made a fire. “So what's wrong with that?” - you ask. So far it seems like nothing, although... For some reason the fire was not built in a clearing, but right in the middle of the bushes and trees. It’s not even worth talking about the fact that the smoke and heat from the fire will be harmful to plants - and, what good, they will make people laugh.
What about the music? Why not listen to the splashing of water, the rustling of trees, the chirping of birds? Isn't that why we leave the city in the end? No, blaring music filled everything around, and not only the eardrums of young people (who think they are relaxing) are suffering - nature is suffering. Most of us say that nature is alive just for the sake of saying that nature is alive. But this is really so! All nature is inhabited by living, conscious entities, which we, having moved away from it over many millennia, have forgotten how to see and hear. Why, we don’t even know about their existence. For us they are only “literature”, images that come from myths and tales, and this is in best case scenario. For such entities, such a roar is real torment, they suffer, and this affects flowers and trees, animals and birds.
And nature suffers not only from noise. It's no secret that most people smoke. Smoke poisons the human body, and for the “essentials” who live in the forests, where, thanks to the relative distance from civilization, everything is much cleaner than in the city, this disgusting thing is especially painful. Is this love?! And what kind of “gratitude” the faithful servants of the Creator and Lord, who care for nature, send us for our obvious shamelessness, is visible to the naked eye. Dry rivers and lakes, ruined trees, endangered species of animals and much more over the past decades have changed even visible world planets, there is nothing to say about the subtle world. What kind of “reciprocity” is there! We don't deserve it!
...And two days flew by in such a frenzy, it’s time to go back. All around were broken bushes and mountains of rubbish, withered by smoke. You should take the garbage with you and throw it in a special container, but this never occurs to anyone. For what? After all, they are not going to come back here anymore, there are plenty of other places, Russia is big. Let others take care of themselves. It's sad, if not tragic...
Another example. The men go fishing. But not with fishing rods and spinning rods, but with nets and slings. They catch fish in bags, throw away small change, without thinking about anything - neither about the fact that they are polluting the subtle world with their aspirations and actions, nor about the fact that they are seriously disturbing the ecology of the visible gross material world. What if they engage in such “fishing” during spawning, when the reproduction process is underway? Moreover, for the sake of one caviar (!), gutting and throwing away the most valuable fish, which was never able to fulfill one of its most important natural tasks - to bear offspring! What kind of love for nature is there, it rather smacks of hatred.
And almost none of us think about the fact that we will have to answer to the fullest extent for our actions - we managed, they say, to bypass the earthly law, and okay. There is no need to talk about responsibility before God, in whom many do not believe. But we ignore even our responsibility to our children, in whom each of us “oh, how we believe!”, leaving behind chaos, dirt and destruction. It's an ugly picture, but that's how it really is. True love for nature, without a doubt, would help every person change for the better.
Nowadays, the problems of protecting the natural environment and ensuring environmental safety purchased very important. People on own experience we saw that, unfortunately, no human intervention in nature passes without leaving a trace; very often the rash actions of people have extremely unpleasant consequences. The widespread opinion in the twentieth century that man is the conqueror of nature turned out to be erroneous.
Man is simply one of Mother Nature’s children, and, as it turned out, he is far from being her most intelligent child, because no other creatures destroy the world in which they live. In order to somehow make up for past mistakes and prevent such mistakes from being made in the future, today humanity pays a lot of attention to such issues as protecting nature, economical consumption natural resources, caring for animals and plants...
Once upon a time, people thoughtlessly thought that such seemingly insignificant phenomena as the extermination of some type of insect, deforestation somewhere far away in the taiga, or pollution of a small river were unlikely to have any serious consequences. However, as practice has shown, even these “little things” can become fatal, because everything in the world is interconnected, so even the disappearance of the tiniest link in the chain inevitably leads to disruption general equilibrium. In the end, we have what we have - global warming, ozone holes, hundreds of species of animals and plants that are on the verge of extinction...
The people themselves are also suffering, who today are faced with many problems unknown to them before - an increase in the number of various diseases among the population, the birth of a large number of babies with certain pathologies, and much more. Today, healthcare has become one of the main priorities human society, since deterioration ecological situation dealt a serious blow to people's health. Excessive human activity and irresponsible attitude towards nature have turned against us, therefore, if we want to preserve natural resources for our descendants, who will live many hundreds of years after us, we must take active measures to protect the environment now.
What to do?
You need to start small - with the struggle for the purity of your settlement, because ecology is the key to our common prosperous future. When you go to nature to relax, you should take large garbage bags with you and clean up before and after yourself the area where you are resting or going to rest (and preferably not only after yourself). It is worth setting an example for people, conducting active campaigning everywhere (leaflets, posters, newspapers, explanations), holding mass cleanup days, teaching people to take care of the natural environment, fighting those who stubbornly do not want to change their boorish and consumerist attitude towards Nature (attracting to liability).
Everything returns to normal, everything that we have prepared for ourselves, according to the great Law of Interaction, which is sometimes called the “Law of Sowing and Harvest.” It doesn’t matter that we don’t know about the existence of universal and most perfect Laws of the Universe, our ignorance does not exempt us from responsibility. So isn’t it better for each of us, before it’s too late, to try to look at ourselves from the outside and start doing something?
Let us still love, appreciate and respect Mother Nature, because this is ours, in which we live! Let's not thoughtlessly throw trash anywhere (even travel tickets or ice cream paper)! Think! Do it! Teach yourself and others order and cleanliness! It’s clean not where they clean, but where they don’t litter...
Nature is like a simple miracle,
It is impossible to understand and unravel. Then he puts on a fur coat in the cold,
It melts the asphalt to dust.
Rain in the heat is uncontrollably desired,
Fast streams tremble.
Soul impulses pacify
And cleanses thoughts from filth.
People are in a hurry to learn all the facets
Dear mother nature.
But they understand that something controls us -
Ignorance does not let you through and stands like a wall.
Dreams go on forever.
The tracks are tangled in the shadows.
Nature reveals eternity,
For those who are pure in their thoughts.
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It's lunchtime, but there's no food at home, so you get behind the wheel and drive to the nearest grocery store.
You walk among the stalls hoping to buy something. In the end, you choose chicken and a prepared salad and return home to enjoy your meal.
Let's look at how a seemingly harmless trip to the store impacts the environment.
First, driving a car contributed to carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere. The electricity in the store is nothing more than the result of burning coal, the mining of which has devastated the Appalachian ecosystem.
The salad ingredients were farmed and treated with pesticides, which then entered waterways, poisoning fish and aquatic plants (which help keep the air clean).
The chicken was raised on a very remote poultry farm where animal waste releases large amounts of toxic methane into the atmosphere. When delivering goods to the store, many modes of transport were involved, each of which caused its own harm to the environment.
Even the most insignificant human actions initiate changes in the environment. How we heat our homes, power our electrical appliances, what we do with our garbage and the origins of our food all place enormous pressure on the environment.
Looking at public level The problem can be noted that human behavior has significantly affected the environment. The Earth's temperature has increased by one degree Fahrenheit since 1975, and the amount of polar ice has decreased by 9 percent in just one decade.
We have caused enormous damage to the planet, much more than you can imagine. Construction, irrigation, mining significantly spoil natural landscape and disrupts the flow of important ecological processes. Aggressive fishing and hunting can deplete all stocks of species, human migration can introduce alien species into established ones food chains. Greed leads to catastrophic accidents, and laziness leads to destructive practices.
10. Public projects
Sometimes public works projects don't actually work to benefit the public. For example, dam projects in China, designed to produce clean energy, have devastated the surrounding area, causing flooding in cities and environmental waste areas, greatly increasing the risk of natural disasters.
In 2007, China completed 20 years of construction of the world's largest hydroelectric dam, called the Three Gorges Dam. During the implementation of this project, more than 1.2 million people had to leave their usual habitats, as 13 major cities, 140 regular cities and 1350 villages. Hundreds of factories, mines, dumps and industrial centers were also flooded, plus the main reservoirs were heavily polluted. The project altered the ecosystem of the Yangtze River, turning the once mighty river into a stagnant basin, thereby wiping out much of the native flora and fauna.
Diverted rivers also significantly increase the risk of landslides along banks that are home to hundreds of thousands of people. According to forecasts, about half a million people living along the river are planning to be resettled by 2020, as landslides are inevitable and the ecosystem will continue to be depleted.
Scientists have recently linked dam construction to earthquakes. The Three Gorges Reservoir was built on top of two major fault lines, with hundreds of minor tremors occurring since its opening. Scientists have suggested that the catastrophic 2008 earthquake in the Chinese province of Sichuan, which killed 8,000 people, was also caused by the accumulation of water in the area of the dam, located less than half a mile from the center of the earthquake. The phenomenon of dams causing earthquakes is associated with the water pressure created under the reservoir, which, in turn, increases the pressure in rocks and acts as a softener for fault lines that are already under tension.
9. Overfishing
“There are a lot of fish in the sea” is no longer a completely reliable statement. Humanity's appetite for seafood has devastated our oceans to such an extent that experts fear for the ability of many species to rebuild their populations on their own.
According to the World Wildlife Federation, global fish catches exceed the permissible limit by 2.5 times. More than half of the world's fish stocks and species have already been depleted, and one quarter of species are overdepleted. Ninety percent of large fish species - tuna, swordfish, cod, halibut, flounder, marlin - have lost their natural habitat. According to forecasts, if the situation does not change, the stocks of these fish will disappear by 2048.
It is worth noting that the main culprit is advances in fishing technology. Today, commercial fishing vessels are mostly equipped with fish-finding sonar. Once they find the right spot, fishermen release huge nets, the size of three football fields, that can sweep up all the fish in a few minutes. Thus, with this approach, fish populations could be reduced by 80 percent in 10-15 years.
8. Invasive species
Throughout the founding era, man himself has been a distributor of invasive species. Even though it may seem like your beloved pet or plant is doing much better in its new location, the natural balance is actually being disrupted. Invasive flora and fauna have been proven to be the most destructive thing humanity has done to the environment.
In the United States, 400 of the 958 species are listed as endangered because they are considered at risk due to competition with invasive alien species.
Invasive species problems mostly affect invertebrate animals. For example, in the first half of the 20th century, the Asian fungus destroyed more than 180 million acres of American chestnut trees. As a result, more than 10 species dependent on chestnuts have become extinct.
7. Coal mining industry
The biggest threat posed by coal mining is climate change, but it also threatens local ecosystems.
Market realities pose serious threats to coal, especially in the United States. Coal is a cheap source of energy - one megawatt of energy produced by coal costs $20-30, as opposed to one megawatt produced by natural gas– 45-60 dollars. Moreover, one quarter of the world's coal reserves are located in the United States.
Two of the most destructive forms of the coal mining industry are mining coal from mountaintops and using gas. In the first case, miners can "cut down" more than 305 meters of a mountain peak in order to reach a coal deposit. Mining using gas occurs when the coal is closer to the surface of the mountain. In this case, all the “inhabitants” of the mountain (trees and any other creatures living in them) are exterminated to extract valuable minerals.
Every practice of this kind creates a large amount of waste along the way. Vast damaged and old forest areas are being dumped into nearby valleys. In the US alone, in West Virginia, it is estimated that more than 121,405 hectares of hardwood forests have been destroyed by coal mining. By 2012, they say that 5180 will cease to exist square kilometers Appalachian forests.
The question of what to do with this kind of “waste” still remains open. Typically, mining companies simply dump unwanted trees, dead wildlife, etc. into nearby valleys, which in turn not only destroys natural ecosystems, but also affects the drying out large rivers. Industrial waste from mines finds refuge in river beds.
6. Human disasters
Although most of the ways in which humans harm the environment develop over several years, some events can happen in an instant, but that instant will have far-reaching consequences.
The 1989 oil spill in Prince Williams Sound, Alaska, had devastating consequences. About 11 million gallons of crude oil were spilled and killed more than 25,000 seabirds, 2,800 sea otters, 300 seals, 250 eagles, about 22 killer whales, and billions of salmon and herring. At least two species, the Pacific herring and the guillemot, did not recover from the disaster.
It is too early to assess the damage to wildlife caused by the oil spill in Gulf of Mexico, but the scale of the disaster is incomparable to anything previously seen in American history. For several days, more than 9.5 million liters of oil per day leaked into the Gulf - the largest spill in American history. By most estimates, damage to wildlife is still lower than the 1989 spill due to lower species density. However, despite this, there is no doubt that the damage from the spill will continue for many years to come.
5. Cars
America has long been considered the land of cars, so it's no surprise that one-fifth of all greenhouse gas emissions in the United States come from cars. There are 232 million cars on this country's roads, very few of which are powered by electricity, and the average car consumes about 2,271 liters of gasoline annually.
One car emits about 12,000 pounds of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere in the form of exhaust fumes. In order to clear the air of these impurities, 240 trees will be needed. In America, cars emit about the same amount of carbon dioxide as coal-burning factories.
The combustion process that occurs in a car engine produces fine particles nitrogen oxides, hydrocarbons and sulfur dioxide. In large quantities, these chemicals can harm a person's respiratory system, causing coughing and suffocation. Cars also generate carbon monoxide – poisonous gas, produced by burning fossil fuels, which blocks the transport of oxygen to the brain, heart and other vital organs.
At the same time, oil production, which is necessary to create fuel and oil to move a car, in turn, also has a serious impact on the environment. Land-based drilling is displacing native species, and offshore drilling and subsequent transportation has created an incredible amount of problems over the years, with more than 40 million gallons of oil spilled around the world since 1978.
4. Unsustainable agriculture
In all the ways in which humanity harms the environment, one can see one thing: The general trend: We are unable to make plans for the future. But nowhere is this more evident than in our method of growing our own food.
According to the US Environmental Protection Agency, agricultural practices are responsible for 70 percent of the pollution in the country's rivers and streams. Chemical runoff, contaminated soil, animal waste, all end up in waterways, of which more than 173,000 miles are already in poor condition. Chemical fertilizers and pesticides increase nitrogen levels and decrease oxygen levels in water.
Pesticides used to protect crops from predators threaten the survival of some species of birds and insects. For example, the number of bee colonies on US farmland fell from 4.4 million in 1985 to less than 2 million in 1997. When exposed to pesticides the immune system bees are weakened, making them more vulnerable to the enemy.
Large-scale industrial agriculture also contributes to the process global warming. The vast majority of meat products in the world are produced on factory farms. On any farm, tens of thousands of livestock are concentrated in small areas to save space. Among other things, when unprocessed animal waste is destroyed, harmful gases are released, including methane, which, in turn, has a significant impact on the process of global warming.
3. Deforestation
There was a time when most of the land on the planet was covered with forests. Today, forests are disappearing before our eyes. According to the United Nations, 32 million acres of forest are lost annually, including 14,800 acres of primary forest, that is, land not occupied or affected by human activity. Seventy percent of the planet's animals and plants live in forests, and, accordingly, if they lose their home, they themselves will be at risk of extinction as a species.
The problem is particularly acute in tropical forests with humid climate. Such forests cover 7 percent of the world's land area and provide homes for about half of all species on the planet. At current rates of deforestation, scientists estimate that tropical forests will be wiped out in about 100 years.
Deforestation also contributes to global warming. Trees absorb greenhouse gases, so fewer trees mean emissions more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. They also help perpetuate the water cycle by returning water vapor to the atmosphere. Without trees, forests will quickly turn into barren deserts, leading to even greater fluctuations in global temperatures. When forests burn, trees release carbon into the atmosphere, which also contributes to global warming. Scientists estimate that the trees of the Amazon forest processed the equivalent of 10 years of human activity.
Poverty is one of the main causes of deforestation. Majority tropical forests are in third world countries, and politicians there regularly stimulate economic development weak regions. Thus, loggers and farmers are slowly but surely doing their job. In most cases, deforestation occurs due to the need to create a farm plot. A farmer typically burns trees and vegetation to produce ash, which can then be used as fertilizer. This process called slash-and-burn agriculture. Among other things, the risk of soil erosion and flooding increases as within a few years nutrients evaporate from the soil, and the land is often unable to support the planted crops for which the trees were cut down.
2. Global warming
The average temperature of the Earth's surface has increased by 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit over the past 130 years. Ice caps are melting at an alarming rate—more than 20 percent of the world's ice has disappeared since 1979. Sea levels are rising, causing floods and having a significant impact on the catastrophic natural disasters that are increasingly occurring around the world.
Global warming caused greenhouse effect, in which some gases send the resulting heat from the sun back into the atmosphere. Since 1990, annual greenhouse gas emissions have increased by about 6 billion tons worldwide, or 20 percent.
The gas most responsible for global warming is carbon dioxide, which accounts for 82 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions in the United States. Carbon dioxide is produced by burning fossil fuels, mainly when running cars and when factories are powered by coal. Five years ago global atmospheric concentrations gases were already 35 percent higher than before industrial revolution.
Global warming could lead to development natural Disasters, large-scale food and water shortages, and devastating impacts on wildlife. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, sea levels could rise by 17.8 - 58.4 cm by the end of the century. And since most of the world's population lives in coastal areas, this is a very big danger, both for people and for ecosystems.
1. Overcrowding
"Overpopulation is the elephant in the room that no one wants to talk about," says Dr John Guillebaud, professor of family planning and reproductive health at University College London. "Unless we can do humane family planning ourselves reduce the population, nature will do it for us through violence, epidemics and famine,” he adds.
Over the past 40 years, the world population has grown from 3 to 6.7 billion. 75 million people (equivalent to the population of Germany) are added annually, or more than 200,000 people daily. According to forecasts, by 2050 the world population will exceed 9 billion people.
More people means more waste, more demand for food, more production of consumer goods, more needs for electricity, cars, etc. In other words, all the factors that contribute to global warming will only get worse.
Increasing demand for food will force farmers and fishermen to increasingly harm already fragile ecosystems. Forests will be removed almost entirely as cities continually expand and new areas for farmland are needed. The list of endangered species will become longer and longer. In rapidly developing countries such as India and China, increased energy consumption is expected to increase carbon emissions. In short, than more people, the more problems.
The relationship between people and nature has always been quite complex - man sought to subjugate it, use it for his needs and change it in every possible way. Today everyone is talking about the negative consequences of global warming, but this is far from the only example as human civilization and nature influence each other.
1. A warming climate contributes to violence.
Many Scientific research It has been consistently assumed for several decades that rates of violent crime always increase as one approaches the equator, that is, as the climate becomes hotter. But none of these studies have been able to determine why this is so. There are two main theories. First, hot weather makes people uncomfortable and irritable, and therefore more violent.
Secondly, in warm weather people are more often outdoors and interact more actively, i.e. more possibilities for violent conflicts. But researchers from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam believe that it is not so much the heat that is to blame for such behavior, but minor change temperatures in these regions.
Without having to plan for upcoming seasons, people can focus on the present without worrying so much about the future. This “living one day at a time” strategy can lead to decreased self-control and thus an increase in acts of violence.
2. Light pollution causes early spring in cities
Light pollution caused by excess artificial lighting can actually be destructive to natural ecosystems. Over time, bright lights in cities gradually “deceive” the surrounding trees and plants, which begin to “believe” that spring has come earlier.
In a 12-year study of four different tree species, British scientists found that in large cities with a lot of night lighting, trees budded a week earlier than similar species in rural areas. This has a natural multiplier effect on the surrounding ecosystem, causing disruptions in pollination cycles and bird and bee populations.
3. Cigarette butts are a threat to marine life
Of the billions of cigarette butts produced each year, only a fraction are disposed of correctly. An insane amount of them end up in the ocean. In fact, cigarette butts are the most common type of litter in the world's oceans. They are made up of thousands of tiny plastic particles woven into a fiber that breaks down in the ocean environment.
One study found that the hazardous materials contained in one cigarette butt could sufficiently contaminate 1 liter of water to kill any fish in that water.
4. People and evolution
Hunting, human encroachment on animals' natural habitats, and other environmental changes have contributed to the extinction of thousands of species over the centuries. But some human behavior patterns can ultimately lead to the emergence of new species that would never have appeared in the wild. otherwise. For example, in London there are underground mosquitoes whose DNA and breeding habits are different from ordinary mosquitoes.
They came from insects that escaped into artificial underground tunnels during the bombing of World War II. Since they are no longer able to reproduce with other mosquitoes, these mosquitoes are a separate species that was actually created by humans.
5. Nature improves mental health
A 2013 study by the University of Essex found that clinical rates of depression dropped significantly (by 71 percent) in people who took at least a short walk in nature every day. These results are in sharp contrast to control group, whose participants walked once a day in mall. Their depression levels dropped by 45 percent, while 22 percent actually felt more depressed.
Additionally, adolescents living within 1 km of green space experienced a decrease aggressive behavior. Either way, the study's authors came to a rather specific conclusion: increasing green space in urban areas could lead to a 12 percent reduction in violent and aggressive behavior among adolescents.
6. Increased vegetation growth
Melting glaciers and the gradual disappearance of long-standing ice shelves caused by global climate change have produced an unexpected secondary effect. In many places where the ice has retreated, greenery has appeared in its place.
This long-term trend was noted by NASA using satellite images. In addition to retreating ice and rising temperatures, another factor is believed to be an increase in the amount of nitrogen in the atmosphere, which plants love.
7. Poor people in green areas get sick less often
Scientists from the University of Glasgow conducted a study that substantiated the theory that exposure to nature is beneficial for people. After excluding diseases such as lung cancer, circulatory diseases, and deliberate self-harm, the scientists decided to survey the entire working population of England to determine whether there was a pattern of health status among people who could not afford health care living near green spaces.
It turned out that people who live near greenery are actually healthier, even if they don’t visit doctors at all.
8. Mothers who live close to nature give birth to large children.
Ben-Gurion University researchers noted in 2014 that mothers in greener areas tend to give birth to children with much higher average weight bodies. The study also found that a much lower birth weight puts the baby at risk for a host of lifelong health problems.
It has been found that low birth weight is common in economically underdeveloped areas with minimum quantity green spaces.
9. Roads can have a positive impact on nature
Despite the fact that roads are vital to the infrastructure of any society, environmentalists actively protest against their construction. In fact, in 2013, Prof. Cambridge University Andrew Balmford suggested that building roads or improving existing roads in some areas could benefit surrounding areas.
Particularly in underdeveloped areas suitable for agriculture, roads clearly help preserve vulnerable plant and animal species because people simply “stay away from them.”
10. Animals adapt to human presence
During the Industrial Revolution and as a result of the human population explosion, there was clear effect impact on the diversity of animal species. Hunting and fishing, despite changes in habitat and migration patterns, have had an impact bad influence for many types, but not all. Some have adapted to thrive in the presence of humans, and studying how they managed to do this may be key to mitigating the effect of future population growth.
Chipmunks and crows, for example, have completely changed their diet to adapt to city life. Many endangered birds have taken up residence on the flat roofs of shopping malls.
The nature of our planet is very diverse and inhabited by unique species of plants, animals, birds and microorganisms. All this diversity is closely interconnected and allows our planet to maintain and maintain a unique balance between different forms of life.
Human impact on the environment
From the very first days of man's appearance, he began to influence the environment. And with the invention of more and more new tools, human civilization has increased its impact to truly enormous proportions. And at present, several important questions have arisen before humanity: how does man influence nature? What human actions harm the soil that provides us with our staple foods? What is the influence of man on the atmosphere we breathe?
Currently, man’s impact on the world around him not only contributes to the development of our civilization, but also often leads to appearance The planet is undergoing significant changes: rivers are drained and drying up, forests are cut down, new cities and factories appear in place of plains, mountains are destroyed for the sake of new transport routes.
With the rapid increase in the Earth's population, humanity requires more and more food, and with the rapid growth of production technologies, the production capacity of our civilization is also growing, requiring more and more new resources for processing and consumption, and the development of more and more new territories.
Cities are growing, seizing more and more land from nature and displacing their natural inhabitants: plants and animals.
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Main reasons
The reasons for the negative impact of humans on nature are:
All these factors have a significant and sometimes irreversible impact on the world around us. And more and more often a person is faced with the question: what consequences will such influence ultimately lead to? Will we eventually turn our planet into a waterless desert, unsuitable for existence? How can a person minimize Negative consequences its impact on the world around us? The contradictory impact of people on natural environment Nowadays it is becoming a subject of discussion at the international level.
Negative and contradictory factors
In addition to the obvious positive influence of a person on surrounding nature, there are also significant disadvantages of such interaction:
- Destruction large areas forests by cutting them down. This influence is associated, first of all, with the development of the transport industry - people require more and more highways. In addition, wood is actively used in paper industry and other industries.
- Wide use of chemical fertilizers V agriculture actively contributes to rapid soil pollution.
- Widely developed network industrial production their emissions of harmful substances into the atmosphere and water They not only cause environmental pollution, but also contribute to the death of entire species of fish, birds and plants.
- Rapidly growing cities and industrial centers significantly influence changes in the external living conditions of animals, reducing their range natural habitat and the reduction of the populations of various species themselves.
Also, we cannot ignore man-made disasters that can cause irreversible harm not only separate species flora or fauna, and entire regions of the planet. For example, after the famous accident at Chernobyl nuclear power plant, until now, a large area of Ukraine is uninhabitable. The radiation level in this area exceeds the maximum permissible standards by tens of times.
Also, a leak of radiation-contaminated water from a nuclear power plant reactor in the city of Fukushima could lead to environmental disaster on a global scale. The damage that this heavy contaminated water could cause to the ecological system of the world's oceans would be simply irreparable.
And the construction of conventional hydroelectric power plants causes no less harm to the environment. After all, their construction requires the construction of a dam and the flooding of a large area of adjacent fields and forests. As a result of such human activity, not only the river and the surrounding areas suffer, but also the wildlife living in these areas.
In addition, many people thoughtlessly throw away garbage, polluting not only the soil, but also the waters of the world’s oceans with their waste. After all, light debris does not sink and remains on the surface of the water. And given that the decomposition period of some types of plastic is more than ten years, such floating “islands of dirt” make it much more difficult to obtain oxygen and sunlight sea and river inhabitants. Therefore, entire populations of fish and animals have to migrate in search of new, more suitable territories. And many of them die in the search process.
Felling forest areas on mountain slopes makes them susceptible to erosion, as a result, the soil becomes loose, which can lead to destruction mountain range.
And to vital supplies fresh water people are negligent - daily polluting freshwater rivers with sewage and industrial waste.
Of course, the existence of humans on the planet brings considerable benefits to it. In particular, it is people who carry out activities aimed at improving environmental situation in the environment. On the territory of many countries people organize nature reserves, parks and reserves, which allow not only to preserve the surrounding nature in its natural, pristine form, but also contribute to the preservation and increase in populations of rare and endangered species of animals and birds.
Special laws have been created to protect rare representatives of the nature around us from destruction. Exist special services, funds and centers fighting the destruction of animals and birds. Specialized associations of ecologists are also being created, whose task is to fight to reduce emissions into the atmosphere that are harmful to the environment.
Security organizations
One of the most well-known organizations fighting for the conservation of nature is "Greenease" - international organization , created to preserve the environment for our descendants. Greenpease employees set themselves several main tasks:
- Fighting ocean pollution.
- Significant restrictions on whaling.
- Reducing the scale of deforestation of taiga in Siberia and much more.
With the development of civilization, humanity must look for alternative sources of energy: solar or cosmic, to preserve life on Earth. The construction of new canals and artificial water systems aimed at maintaining soil fertility is also of great importance for preserving the nature around us. And to keep the air clean, many enterprises install specially designed filters to reduce the level of pollutants released into the atmosphere.
This reasonable and caring attitude towards the world around us clearly has only a positive impact on nature.
Every day positive influence Human exposure to nature is increasing, and this cannot but affect the ecology of our entire planet. That is why man’s struggle to preserve rare species flora and fauna, conservation of rare plant species.
Humanity has no right to disrupt the natural balance through its activities and lead to the depletion of natural resources. To do this, it is necessary to control the extraction of mineral resources, carefully monitor and take care of the fresh water reserves on our planet. And it is very important to remember that it is we who are responsible for the world around us and how our children and grandchildren will live depends on us!
To the question How do people harm nature? given by the author Victoria Okun the best answer is Well, firstly, man destroys virgin nature, turning more and more of it into anthropogenic, as it is called in social environment, create a “second nature”....this naturally disrupts the level of oxygen released into the atmosphere, since valuable trees and other plants are also destroyed by humans...secondly, this situation is aggravated by inventions in industry. With the development of various industries, new methods of manufacturing goods, etc., appear, which negatively affects the environment, since as production proceeds, a huge amount of dangerous gases, and even modern filters installed on factory pipes do not save from harm and pollution... thirdly, the above problem leads to the problem of garbage, which appears in large quantities after consuming the same industrial products... water bodies are polluted by irresponsible factories that throw industrial waste directly into the seas and lakes, without thinking about their future... again, people exterminate many species of innocent animals for the sake of daily money and simply for their own pleasure... in general something like that negative influences There are a lot of people in nature, one might even say that they are at every step...
Answer from Flush[guru]
Disposes waste into rivers and lakes. Drains swamps, cuts down forests, releases exhaust gases into the atmosphere, creates artificial reserves,
destruction of animals
Answer from Alla Mikhailets[newbie]
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Answer from Grow up[newbie]
1. Man is designed in such a way that he strives to consciously change nature, to adapt it to his needs, and this is the main harm that he causes to it. Man builds huge factories that poison the atmosphere and hydrosphere with toxic emissions, man cuts down forests, plows up fields, extracts underground natural resources, leaving voids underground and mountains of ugly rock on the surface, violates ecological balance. Man has destroyed and is destroying various species of animals and plants. Man builds cities, lays roads, makes fires, litters. Sometimes it seems that the very presence of humans causes harm to nature.
But man is still a rational being and last years I began to think about the harm it causes and how it can be corrected. If he acts consistently in this endeavor, soon the damage to nature can be significantly reduced.
2. As a conscious and more organized being, man causes great damage to nature (Paradoxical as it may seem). Let's start with banal garbage. Picnics in the spring in nature, after which, as a rule. garbage is not removed. The fire doesn't really go out. For example, plastic bags and bottles are not subject to decay and rotting. Which means polyethylene hell. If something like this isn't recycled, it won't be far off. Exhaust gases from cars, a great addiction to cleaning chemicals that only cause harm, cutting down trees and killing animals... And this is only a small part of the harm that humans can cause...
Answer from Marriage[newbie]
1.Irrational use of water
Everyone knows that water comes into the water supply from natural sources. Now imagine the morning, the population of a large city and in every apartment, the shower and faucet are turned on. Now just think how much water flows away in just one morning. And this is only the beginning of the day, how many times during the day will the tap open and water flow. For example, all Muscovites taken together spend on average from 200 liters of water to 4 million cubic meters per day. Several years ago there was even a question of water resource shortages. And such a situation is quite possible, because the earth’s resources are not endless.
2. Toothpaste and hygiene products
Let's continue about water. Everything you flush down the sink or toilet ends up in wastewater. Today, a system for their purification has been developed, but it only concerns the central sewerage system. That is, before you drain waste water into a reservoir, it is subjected to several stages of purification. However, it cannot completely cope with the chemical components of hygiene products. The same toothpaste contains fluoride, which, like chlorine, interacts with organic substances and forms dangerous chemical compounds. What can we say about hygiene products that contain various dangerous fragrances, peahens, and polymer molecules. All these components, one way or another, penetrate into the environment.
3. Car
Everything seems clear about the car. A single vehicle's exhaust releases over ten thousand pounds of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Thanks to, a large number motor transport Moscow and St. Petersburg are considered one of the most dirty cities countries. Unfortunately, so far the share of alternative eco-mobiles accounts for only a small part.
4.Smoking
In addition to the fact that harmful substances are released into the air during smoking, almost five million hectares of forest are destroyed every year in order to dry tobacco.
5. Improper waste disposal
We have written repeatedly about the fact that improper waste disposal harms the environment. You can read about this on our website here and here.
6. Perfume
Musk is often used in perfume compositions; it is musk that causes the greatest concern among environmentalists. It can penetrate adipose tissue aquatic species. Imagine you are on vacation, perfumed yourself with your favorite scent (which, by the way, may contain a number of chemicals hazardous to health and nature) and plunged into the sea. Congratulations, all harmful substances, along with musk, have entered the reservoir. You might want to have a fresh fish dinner afterwards. There is a possibility that you will not only inhale all the harmful components of your perfume, but also eat it.
7. Household cleaning and laundry products
We also wrote about the dangers of such products. Read this text.
8. Means for repairing premises
Today, there are environmental analogues to unsafe paints, adhesives, varnishes and other repair products that contain hazardous components. True, such funds are more expensive. If you resort to economical renovations, be prepared for the fact that your home will harm the environment and your health.
9. Carcinogens produced by frying foods
Do you want fried cutlets for dinner? Stop. Think again and steam them, because frying creates dangerous carcinogen, which can cause cancer in humans and animals.