The Effect of Humans on the Environment

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The Earth and the ecosystems we have today have been changed by many years of evolution. During the Earth’s life the world could not stay the same. It had to change and so did the creatures living with it. When the climate changes the creatures living there have to adapt to their new environment; luckily when the environment changes by natural cause it does so very slowly, in most cases, giving the animals time to find the best characteristics to survive. Scientists have studied the evolutionary trail of the Earth’s weather, geography, and animal history. They have found that weather affects all things. Erosion can form or destroy mountains, create oceans, or split continents. Through more study and digging scientists came across the historical animals, frozen in stone and fossilized. Fossils were and still are one of the greatest ways to study what the weather used to be like. From the beginning of time it was the environment that would ultimately rule the earth. Nothing living on Earth could change what way the wind blew or how much it rained. The ecosystems were set, until weather decided to go a different route. This was true before humans created advanced technology and started using it to cut down trees, level mountains, turn up prairie, and move water. Before the age of technology the weather was invincible, able to put up with anything the living things on Earth could throw at it. Now humans are throwing fossil fuels, plastics, explosives, and much more. The environment no longer changes by natural cause. Environmental change is merely the effect of human actions. It has become weak, no longer able to protect the living things on Earth. Humans have had a huge impact on the Earth’s Environment. An impact the environment ca...

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...ugh its normal change from warm to cold. This particular year it rapidly changed and many sea turtles died because they could not handle the cold. Whether you believe in the arctic gap expanding and shrinking or the ocean habitats changing you have to believe in the effect, because they happen right inform of your eyes. Humans have had a part to play, for good and for bad, when it comes to the quality of the air and the atmosphere.
It is clear that all living things play a part in the living environment and and it is clear that some play a bigger part than others, but all are important and essential to the Earth. It is unfortunate that humans have plaid a two faced role. They all try their hardest to protect what they think is important, but what is important varies from person to person. The effect humans have had on the environment may change in later years.

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