The Anthropocene: Human Impacts on the Environment
Your assignment:
Select 3 human impacts you are most interested in learning about.
For each impact category, discuss the following information (you should have 3
sets of these questions):
Forests:
a. Human activities can devastate forests through harvesting lumber and
create deforestation and pollution that will take an extremely long time for
the vegetation to regrow in that area. Deforestation to create farm land is
another human activity that can contribute to the cause.
b. The graph show the amount of deforestation in millions per kilometer. It also
show that it has been occurring since 1750 till present day. Deforestation is directly
correlated with almost all impacts because the creation of mining expeditions and
cities cannot be started unless there is clear area to be utilized for that project.
c. Evidence of human impact on forests can be seen everyday from utilizing paper
