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Unit-5 Green Skills-II
GREEN SKILLS 5
People often say the world is going to end in near future! What if this is true? May be not today,
but someday it may. Unfortunately, this is not something one can simply joke about, if the natural
environment depletes at such a speed.
As the population is increasing day by day and as the level of comfort and lifestyle is going up,
there is more and more consumption of natural resources resulting in depletion of these resources
and environment as well. Our society is broadening and increasing its need despite being careless
towards protecting the environment. It is causing harmful effects on the natural environment to
fulfil the needs of human society.
Environment consists of the resources and conditions that nature provides to human. It includes
the earth surface with all its natural resources including land and water, mountains and plains,
minerals plants animals climatic conditions etc. nvironment can be classified as natural and
artificial. Natural environment consists of all the living and non-living things. It encompasses
the interaction of all living beings, climate and natural resources. People convert and change
the natural products or minerals according to themselves in the course of development by the
construction of buildings roads rail lines etc. his can be said as artificial environment that can
be framed as the society where we live. A natural environment is healthy and it enables a diverse
ecosystem.
Ecosystem is a system which consists of all plants, animals and humans who are dependent on
each other. The relationship between living organisms and their environment forms an ecosystem
and our society is the most important and integral part of environment.
he interaction and interference of society with the environment sometimes affects the ecological
balance in the nature. The continuous technological advancements in our society have led to
decrease in the quality of healthy life. With increase in population and short-term development
activities, the industrialisation and intensive agriculture have been increased which are destroying
natural resources such as water, mineral, petroleum products, wood, soil and many more.
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