CHAPTER 6
HUMAN POPULATION AND THE ENVIRONMENT
6.1 INTRODUCTION
About 250 years ago, humanity existed relatively small numbers with limited technologies. Any environmental disturbances caused by people were local and usually well within the environments capacity to absorb them. However in the last two centuries, the scientific and technological development has occurred that have created environmental problems beyond nature’s assimilative capacity. The main cause for environmental deterioration is the population explosion. The rapid growth of human population is exerting tremendous pressure on the available resources like water air, land, energy etc., causing a global environmental crisis. So the continuous growth in humans is not good for healthy ...
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