This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_impact_on_the_environment 00:01:45 1 Causes 00:01:54 1.1 Rapid Growth of Human Population 00:02:47 1.2 Overconsumption 00:05:27 1.3 Technology 00:05:44 1.4 Agriculture 00:07:21 1.4.1 Fishing 00:08:53 1.4.2 Irrigation 00:11:20 1.4.3 Agricultural land loss and soil erosion 00:13:46 1.4.4 Meat production 00:16:51 1.4.5 Palm oil 00:21:54 1.5 Introductions and invasive species 00:22:02 1.6 Energy industry 00:22:59 1.6.1 Biodiesel 00:23:58 1.6.2 Coal mining and burning 00:25:31 1.6.3 Electricity generation 00:26:08 1.6.4 Nuclear power 00:26:41 1.6.5 Oil shale industry 00:28:19 1.6.6 Petroleum 00:29:13 1.6.7 Reservoirs 00:29:43 1.6.8 Wind power 00:31:28 1.7 Light pollution 00:32:48 1.8 Manufactured products 00:33:34 1.8.1 Cleaning agents 00:33:43 1.8.2 Nanotechnology 00:34:01 1.8.3 Leather 00:34:39 1.8.4 Paint 00:34:58 1.8.5 Paper 00:35:42 1.8.6 Plastics 00:36:26 1.8.7 Pesticides 00:36:42 1.8.8 Pharmaceuticals and personal care products 00:38:00 1.9 Mining 00:38:44 1.10 Transport 00:39:44 1.10.1 Aviation 00:41:33 1.10.2 Roads 00:42:44 1.10.3 Shipping 00:43:21 1.11 Military 00:44:38 1.11.1 War 00:45:45 2 Environmental degradation effects 00:46:19 2.1 Mass extinction, defaunation and decline in biodiversity 00:47:14 2.1.1 Death of coral reefs 00:50:00 2.1.2 Decline in amphibian populations 00:51:25 2.1.3 Wastewater 00:51:35 2.2 Global warming 00:53:12 2.3 Habitat destruction 00:55:04 2.4 Land degradation 00:55:30 2.4.1 Desertification 00:56:28 2.5 Ocean acidification 00:56:36 2.6 Ozone depletion 00:56:45 2.7 Water degradation 00:56:54 2.8 Disruption of the nitrogen cycle 00:57:03 3 Effects on human health 00:58:22 3.1 Effects of global warming on human health 00:58:40 3.2 Effects of pollution on human health 00:58:50 4 See also Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago. Learning by listening is a great way to: - increases imagination and understanding - improves your listening skills - improves your own spoken accent - learn while on the move - reduce eye strain Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone. Listen on Google Assistant through Extra Audio: https://assistant.google.com/services/invoke/uid/0000001a130b3f91 Other Wikipedia audio articles at: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=wikipedia+tts Upload your own Wikipedia articles through: https://github.com/nodef/wikipedia-tts Speaking Rate: 0.8170887328686434 Voice name: en-AU-Wavenet-C "I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think." - Socrates SUMMARY ======= Human impact on the environment or anthropogenic impact on the environment includes changes to biophysical environments and ecosystems, biodiversity, and natural resources caused directly or indirectly by humans, including global warming, environmental degradation (such as ocean acidification), mass extinction and biodiversity loss, ecological crisis, and ecological collapse. Modifying the environment to fit the needs of society is causing severe effects, which become worse as the problem of human overpopulation continues. Some human activities that cause damage (either directly or indirectly) to the environment on a global scale include human reproduction, overconsumption, overexploitation, pollution, and deforestation, to name but a few. Some of the problems, including global warming and biodiversity loss pose an existential risk to the human race, and overpopulation causes those problems.The term anthropogenic designates an effect or object resulting from human activity. The term was first used in the technical sense by Russian geologist Alexey Pavlov, and it was first used in English by British ecologist Arthur Tansley in reference to human influences on climax plant communities. The atmospheric scientist Paul Crutzen introduced the term "Anthropocene" in the mid-1970s. The term is sometimes used in the context of pollution emissions that are produced from human activity but also applies broadly to all major human impacts on the environment.

• published: 15 Jun 2019
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