Human Impact On the Environment : The increasing rate of human impact on the environment is a global issue.

Pollution, excess energy and resource use among many others is affecting the environment negatively. Industrialized cities such as Boston, in order to grow have cut down forests and trees, thus affecting primary productivity. Primary productivity is the basis of life and diversity on earth. Cities lack autotrophs which do photosynthesis and supply energy and nutrients for the environment. With the depletion of forests the earth is losing many photosynthetic organisms in turn affecting other plants and animals. Las Vegas is an example of turning a biome into a livable human habitat. Due to being situated in the desert the city of Las Vegas is lacking water resources and must find water supply else where. With rising temperature changes droughts are occurring which affects the water supply Las Vegas depends on. Las Vegas is helping limiting water resource in the southwest. A huge global human impact is the melting of the glaciers. Rising temperatures due to pollution such as fossil combustion have helped to speed up the melting of glaciers. Water has high specific heat and is hard to cool down once heated up, so the water has high heat absorbance and solar insulation. Melting of glaciers is a self perpetuating movement, meaning once they start melting they do not stop. The excess water flowing from the glaciers into the ocean affects oceanic currents which in turn create global climate change. Overall ... INTRODUCTION TO HUMAN ACTIVITIES ON ENVIRONMENT: Industrialization and Modernization has brought about a drastic change in the quality of the environment. Industrial pollution has caused air, water and land pollution. The emissions from the vehicles and the industries have caused the deterioration in the quality of air. The waste water generated from domestic and effluent released from industries are being sent directly to the rivers thereby deteriorating thewater quality. Lack of waste management practices has also had a negative effect on the quality of the environment. Human activities like burning of electronic wastes (e-wastes) and plastics have caused release of carcinogenic substances. Dumping of wastes in landfills has also caused slow seepage of wastes into the ground thereby polluting the land and also polluting water in the nearby vicinity. Explanation of Human Activities on Environment This way, the effect of human activities has been unexplainably and extraordinarily huge. The introductions of heating and cooling systems have

caused the release of greenhouses gases which in turn plays a major role in climate change. Release of ozone depleting substances from air conditioners and refrigerators have become a thing of major concern. Use of fossil fuels for energy has resulted in the depletion of natural resources and also the release of greenhouse gases which is causing the global warming. Ozone depletion, Global Warning, water pollution are some of the negative effect of human activities on the quality of the environment. Human activities, industrialization, modernization and rapid advancement in technology have had pernicious effects on the quality of the environment. There has been degradation quality of air, water and land. The need for economic growth by every nation has put everybody in a race which in turn has had a negative effect on the quality of the environment. Individuals and organization are exploiting the natural resources present... Naturalization Naturalization (or naturalisation) is the acquisition of citizenship and nationality by somebody who was not acitizen or national of that country when he or she was born. In general, basic requirements for naturalization are that the applicant hold a legal status as a full-time residentfor a minimum period of time and that the applicant promise to obey and uphold that country's laws, to which an oath or pledge of allegiance is sometimes added. Some countries also require that a naturalized national must renounce any other citizenship that they currently hold, forbidding dual citizenship, but whether this renunciation actually causes loss of the person's original citizenship will again depend on the laws of the countries involved. Nationality is traditionally based either on jus soli("right of the territory") or onjus sanguinis("right of blood"), although it now usually mixes both. Whatever the case, the massive increase in population flux due toglobalization and the sharp increase in the numbers of refugees following World War I created an important class of non-citizens called stateless persons. In some rare cases, procedures of mass naturalization were passed (Greece in 1922, Armenian refugees or, more recently, Argentine people escaping the economic crisis). As naturalization laws were created to deal with the rare case of people separated from their nation state because they lived abroad (expatriates), western democracies were not ready to naturalize the massive influx of stateless people which followed massive denationalizations and the expulsion of minorities in the first part of the 20th century — the two greatest such minorities after World War I were the Jews, and the Armenians, but they also counted the (mostly aristocratic) Russians who had escaped the 1917 October Revolution and the war communism period, and then the Spanish refugees. As Hannah Arendt pointed out, internment camps became the "only nation" of

such stateless people, since they were often considered "undesirable" and were stuck in an illegal situation (their country had expelled them or deprived them of their nationality, while they hadn't been naturalized, thus living in a judicial no man's land). After World War II, the increase in international migrations created a new category of refugees, most of themeconomic refugees. For economic, political, humanitarian and pragmatic reasons, many states passed laws allowing a person to acquire their citizenship after birth (such as by marriage to a national jus matrimonii or by having ancestors who are nationals of that country), in order to reduce the scope of this category. However, in some countries this system still maintains a large part of the immigrated population in an illegal status, albeit some massive regularizations (in Spain by Jos Luis Zapatero's government and in Italy byBerlusconi's government). Getting Along with Nature he inquires toward what relationship exists between humankind and nature. He questions the morality of human actions toward nature. His argument starts with the basic premise that humans need nature but at the same time this dependence forces changes to nature. Berry discusses the difference between human beings and animals to clearly make the inference that humankind hold the ability to understand the destruction of environment. Unlike animals people can prevent the diminishment of nature. The reason this remains important deals with his first argument. Because of the fact that humans must coexist with nature it seems crucial that humans preserve nature. The industrial progress and economic growth contribute to damaging the relationship between humankind and nature. That they do not exist as positive signs of moving forward but events that create a circle. He describes the cycle in a cynical fashion speaking about how we destroy nature then must conserve it until nature becomes restored enough that it can be destroyed again. This process leads him to discuss his concept of scale. The idea of scaling back industrializationand technological advances in order to help kept nature in balance with humankinds forms of modernization. Berry concludes his argument making the claim of how simply dangerous it would be if the leaders of the industrial economy take charge of humankind source of instruction. He feels that humans find truth in nature and cultural instruction. To lose respect for nature would completely obliterate of culture and goodness as we know it.