Someday, humans may not inhabit Earth. The day humans leave Earth, animals and plants will be left to defend for themselves. There will be no human interactions to affect the living organisms. Our man made structures will be left to face nature. And someday our man made structures will lose their battle against nature. Welcome to Earth, population zero. After we leave, many niches will be left unoccupied that humans use to fill. For example, the Burmese Pythons in the Florida Everglades will eventually dominate the Everglades. Humans kill the pythons nowadays but after we leave, the pythons will have no one stopping them. About 150 years after we are gone, the pythons will dominate the lower USA. They will have made adaptations and will now be able to climb trees. The pythons will slowly dominate and make their way to the top of the food chain. When the animals are left behind, they will be forced to make …show more content…
For example, cycles of matter will be affected. The water cycle in California and Arizona will be greatly impacted. After we leave, the man made lakes will dry up. The plants will have no water and will die. The top soil will dry up because of the lack of aquifers and reservoirs delivering water. But, two thousand years later, the once dry Phoenix will become a vast water supply. No humans will be left to use the water. The water cycle use to distribute water for human usage but, after we are gone, the water cycle will only distribute water to nature. Immediately after we leave, the plants in the area will struggle. But, eventually the water supply will replenish and nature will thrive in California and Arizona. The carbon/oxygen cycle will differ after we are gone also. Humans won't be here to emit carbon into the atmosphere. The emission rate of carbon being released into the atmosphere will slow and will cause global warming to slow too. The cycles of matter will be altered without human
In the past 50 years, life expectancy has increased tenfold. Technology has allowed people to live longer, stay healthier, and be able to reproduce; we are looking towards and currently in and overpopulation. Also, the standards of living in third world countries are increasing. People are becoming wealthier and having much more children. By 2050, at the rate at which we are growing, there will be approximately 10 billion people living on earth. Also at the rate of resource consumption, there will not be enough food for everyone. With fresh water already being scarce, there would be a shortage. Most bodies of water will be polluted and certain countries will become dictators. There could be a war just because resources are limited; do you think humanity is ready for
There are invaders among us, they are not alien or human, but Burmese Pythons. Arguably one of the most beautiful and unique parts of nature remaining in the United States is rapidly being destroyed by the Burmese Python. It has enormously impacted the Everglades in a negative way. The beautiful indigenous animals have quickly disappeared and new predators surface as we dig deeper into the Everglades. This fierce animal is a constrictor, squeezing the life out of its prey. The Pythons tight grip sucks the life out of its prey and swallows it whole. “It sounded like a joke when news reported Burmese Pythons were invading the Everglades in 2000” states USA Today. Pythons are slithering their way through the Florida Everglades with a big appetite and a similar habitat as their original home in Asia. Now, they have marked their territory permanently and there may be nothing scientists can do in order to prevent this issue.
As time passes, our population continues to increase and multiply; yet, on the other hand, our planet’s resources continue to decrease and deplete. As our population flourishes, human beings also increase their demands and clamor for the Earth’s natural products, yet are unable to sacrifice their surplus of the said resources. Garret Hardin’s work highlighted the reality that humans fail to remember that the Earth is finite and its resources are limited. Hardin’s article revealed that people are unable to fathom that we indeed have a moral obligation to our community and our natural habitat — that we are not our planet’s conquerors but its protectors. We fail to acknowledge and accept that we only have one Earth and that we must protect and treasure it at all costs. Despite all our attempts at annihilating the planet, the Earth will still be unrelenting — it will still continue to be present and powerful. Human beings must recognize that we need this planet more than it needs us and if we persist on being egocentric and covetous, in the end it is us who will
Human extinction may occur because of many reasons some may include because of how we take care of our planet and what lives on it. Another may be because of a disease or a fungus we may spread to one another and will not be able to gain control over it. Instead if we try to save what is left our species may go even further and we may be able to live longer. Our own comfortable lives and not really affected as they should be because most people do not care what is going on outside of their own lives. They should be more concerned because it does involve them, they are part of the human
“Hissssss!” That's the sound of all the burmese pythons wandering into the Everglades. Pythons are infamous in the Everglades, changing many things and are affecting people, animals, and the ecosystem. The pythons are changing animals because they are eating abnormal amounts of food that the other animals eat. The pythons are changing people because people are taking them as pets, and some pythons may not be as docile as many people think. Pythons are also changing the ecosystem because there are so many pythons that have ended up being released there. Therefore, pythons are changing the Everglades and causing many incidents.
Hardin argues how the world only has so many resources and opportunities for agriculture to be expended. Therefore, with enough increase in population, these resources will become extinct. Thus, humans will run out of food and eventually starve to death. As Hardin declares, “a finite world can only support a finite population” (Hardin 98).
The human population growth rate is an alarming issue that brings with it irreversible consequences, that will likely effect the way of life for future generations to come. With the serious incline in population statistics comes catastrophic processes such as global warming and deforestation that have major ‘knock on’ ramifications. It’s issues such as these that need to be considered when we think about the growth of the human population, and we must take into account why these issues are occurring. We must also explore the options available to us that may assist in limiting the problems, or eliminating them all together, to provide a better place, not only for us in existence now, but also those who will walk this earth in the future decades and centuries to come.
Human population growth is becoming a huge issue in our world today. The population is increasing rapidly. The reason that it is becoming a concern is because it has affected the economic, environmental, and social aspects of our world. In the film Frontline: Heat, we can see how there might not be a future for our planet unless we are able to reduce the emissions and make our world a safe place. Not only for the present but also for future generations so that they are able to live long and healthy lives.
In conclusion, climate change will have a significant impact on global temperature, sea levels, human diseases, and wildlife. If climate change isn’t slowed down our future children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren could be living in a world of sultry heat, flooded cities and air that can cause deathly diseases.
other species to go extinct as well. Humans can be held responsible for the temperature change
...e fate and collapse due to the overuse of resources and not allowing Earth to replenish.
What will happen to planet Earth as years pass by? The world will eventually fall apart as the years go by because of many natural and manmade causes. One of the most impactful causes to the Earth’s eventual downfall is climate change. Climate change is a long term change in the weather that affects many parts of the Earth such as the arctic, extinction of animals and more terrible acts. Climate Change will affect the Earth negatively due to its causes of natural disasters, health effects to humans, and global warming.
First when there is biodiversity loss happens the habitats of many animas and plants get destroyed and many many animals and trees dies. And since there are also deforestation, many rivers and other water sources get polluted and when animals drinks it they get diseases. So people will get less food and short supply of water. They will get disease why they eat those animals and fishes from polluted rivers. Biodiversity loss can also cause climate change which is rapidly happening now everywhere. In the Arctic, it is not just a reduction in the extent of sea ice, but its thickness and age. Less ice means less reflective surface meaning more rapid melting and causes the organisms there to get extinct. There will be global warming caused by the loss of trees. All the fuel which is being burnt in the car and the volcanos produces large amount of CO2, CO, methane which gets trapped in the atmosphere. Some dissolves in the sea causing acidification and the others at the ozone layer lots of heat get trapped by CO2 and methane, causing the earth to get very warm. There will be less raining and the surface will become dry, water will be gone, and it will get very hard to grow crops and vegetables. So human will get less food and water, they will suffer from dehydration and
One of the problems facing our world is population. It began about ten thousand years ago when the humans settled and began farming. The farming provides more food for the people thus making the population grow. Now we are about 6 billion in population and in a few years we will be around 10 to 11 billion. Therefore, our population will almost double in size. This means that we will need more food to support us. A study in 1986 by Peter Vitonesk, a Stanford biologist, showed that the humans are already consuming about 38.8 of what is possible for us to eat. Thus, if the population keeps increasing, the percentage will increase also, making us closer and closer to the biophysical limits. By studying the earth's capacity, Dr. Cornell, another biologist, believes that we are already crowded for this would. He believes that our world can only support two million people. Not only this, but population can cause complicated problems to the countries with very high population. These countries will need more schools to educate its people, they will need more hospitals and public health to take care of their people, and they will need more water and more soil for farming to feed all the people. In order to solve the population growth problem, the people should be educated. Once the people are educated they will be aware of the problems they ca...
The reduction of the Earth's resources has been closely linked to the rise in human population. For many thousands of years people lived in relative harmony with their surroundings. Population sizes were small, and life-supporting tools were simple. Most of the energy needed for work was provided by the worker and animals. Since about 1650, however, the human population has increased dramatically. The problems of overcrowding multiply as an ever-increasing number of people are added to the world's population each year.