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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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