THE MAJOR EFFECTS OF POPULATION GROWTH ON THE ENVIRONMENT

The environment plays a significant role in life. Meanwhile, humans impact on natural environment as well, through pollution, greenhouse effect. Obviously, our growing population not only means that people use more resources, people also produce more pollution. Therefore, pollution of the natural environment is the main issue. Today, increasing population growth causes the natural environment to change greatly. This paper focuses on the negative influence of population growth on the environment in these areas: air pollution, water pollution, global warming and ozone depletion.

Air pollution is an important pollution problem. Increasing population growth creates more of this pollutant whose major source is burning of fossil fuel, larger number of vehicles and industrial production. As a result, this leads to air pollution. Increasing air pollution of the earth atmosphere would damage to human¡¯s health and air quality. Human healths effects include increase the rate of lung disease...