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Unit-5 Green Skills-I
GREEN SKILLS 6
Environment refers to the abstract conditions in which a person lives. The word environment is
derived from the French word ‘environ’ which means ‘surrounding’.
With respect to nature, it can be termed as a shelter or habitat for living and non-living organisms
where they can be properly placed, can find food and breed freely. It is contributed by and is
created amongst air, sky, trees, rivers, oceans, mountains, etc., that surround our Earth.
Environment is the greatest creativity, as it is beautiful, mathematical, planned, healthy, positive
& balanced. We often term them together as ‘Nature’. Nature itself maintains balance in the
environment by creating a chain where the autotrophs are hunted & eaten by heterotrophs, and
thus termed as ‘Ecosystem’. (Autotrophs are the producers and heterotrophs are the consumers).
Factors Causing Imbalance
Our day-to-day activities for fulfilling our luxuries disrupts the natural phenomenon of our
ecosystem cause environmental imbalance. For instance, excessive amount of CO2 is produced
by factories and automobiles, excessive use of air conditioners, cement factories, coal mines,
etc. increases the temperature of the earth, which results in global warming, famine, cyclone,
ood, hurricanes, etc. There are various factors that cause environmental imbalance with serious
consequences and for this, humans are held responsible one way or the other.
Population: The increasing population results in increasing demands and services. Increasing
population is affecting our natural ecosystem as our mother nature has got a certain capacity to
fulfill every living being s requirement. Its resources are limited but we are overburdening it with
our unlimited demands for more food, infrastructure (i.e. buildings, factories, transportation)
and facilities.
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