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Industrialization: In the process of setting up industries and manufacturing various products, we are
destructing the natural components of our environment. While manufacturing, industrial waste, garbage
is being dumped into soil or water, dumping of wastes especially, e-waste, harmful chemicals, industrial
ef uents, packaging material, salts and other garbage make the soil useless.
Do you know?
Pollution kills over 1 million seabirds and 100 million mammals annually.
Relationship between Society and Environment
Man is a social animal. By being social, it is meant that he shares his resources and spends his life amongst
other people together in groups. Society is a framework in which people live together by maintaining common
implied rules and ethics for a peaceful and prosperous living. Thus, society is an important component of the
environment.
The relationship between the society and environment has been prevalent for thousands of years. This long
tenure has caused a uctuating impact on environmental stability. Human activities that are conducted as
a part of development or social welfare or growth are affecting the ecological balance. With rising luxuries
in the society, we tend to misuse the resources of the environment, which is actually disrupting the natural
chain/system of the environment.
Ecosystem
It can be defined as a component of the environment, where all kinds of living beings (plants, animals,
microbes) live together and complete their requirements by their own demand-supply chain mechanism.
The ecosystem consists of producers, consumers and decomposers. It includes all the living things which are
living together on the Earth & help each other to complete the life cycle of the environment.
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