Effects of Human activities in the

environment
 Burning of fossil fuels
releases sulphates and
nitrates into air .
Sulphates and nitrates
mix with water vapor in
air and form sulphuric
acid and nitric acid
•Caused by aerosol chemicals called
Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs).
•CFC’s Escape into the atmosphere, reacts
breaking down the ozone.
•Uv rays penetrate the atmosphere and caused
harm to many organisms.
Agriculture wastes

Inorganic Fertilizers Environmental Effect:

• cause rapid growth of algae (e.g. red tides)
• use up lots of O2 in water
• fish & other organisms die from suffocation Human
impacts on the Environment
 Global warming
-is called the
greenhouse effect because
the gases that are gathering
above the earth make the
planet comparable to a
greenhouse. By trapping
heat near the surface of the
earth, the greenhouse effect
is warming the planet and
threatening the
environment.
Global warming
• Family planning services actually help in the fight
against global warming.
• Education is a key method of reducing the
greenhouse effect.
• By teaching people about such things as
deforestation, environmental activists hope to
prevent the problems that ultimately lead to global
warming.
 What are the effects of Global Warming on
earth?

The effects could be enormous. Relative to the

hectic pace of your daily life, global warming is a
slow moving problem. But that doesn’t mean you
should “wait and see” what happens. If we wait,
we may be creating an unsolvable problem, an
unstoppable climatic shift that could have
devastating impacts in years to come.