What is the relationship between environmental degradation and us human beings?

Excessive felling of trees can lead to desertification of the land.

The relationship between human beings and the environment is interdependent and mutually influential. It is embodied in two aspects:

On the one hand, the natural environment provides living space for human beings, and human beings also obtain materials and energy from the environment through production activities. At the same time, human beings discharge metabolites and wastes into the natural environment through production and consumption activities and living consumption activities.

On the other hand, humans can modify the environment, and the environment will react on human beings with its influences, which is called feedback. For example: global warming due to the excessive amount of greenhouse gases emitted into the atmosphere by humans, and acid rain due to the excessive amount of acid gases emitted.

World Environment Day Introduction:

On June 5, 1972, the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment was held in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden, and the Conference adopted the Declaration on the Human Environment and proposed to designate June 5 as the "World Environment Day" every year.

In October of the same year, the 27th session of the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution accepting the proposal. The establishment of World Environment Day reflects the understanding and attitude of people around the world towards environmental issues, and expresses our human yearning and pursuit of a better environment.

World Environment Day is one of the main media for the United Nations to promote global environmental awareness, raise awareness and take action on environmental issues. The significance of World Environment Day is to remind the world of the state of the planet and the dangers of human activities to the environment. The United Nations system and States** are called upon to carry out various activities on this day to highlight the importance of protecting and improving the human environment.

The above content reference: Encyclopedia - Environment.

Human beings and the environment are closely related and coexist.

Human beings live in the environment, and their relationship with the environment is the same as that of other animals, and human beings are not the main carriers of nature, but only live in them.

People are affected by the environment and can also change the environment.

In the face of worsening environmental problems: actively change the concept of consumption and travel, advocate green travel, reduce vehicle exhaust emissions, reduce carbon dioxide emissions and greenhouse effect, actively control water pollution, plant more trees, and adopt clean and renewable energy for production and health.

The human body and the environment are composed of matter, human activities will affect the environment, and the environment can also react to human beings, human beings have evolved from the natural environment, and under normal circumstances, there is a dynamic equilibrium relationship between human beings and the environment.

Once the internal and external environment of the human body changes, the balance between the human body and the environment is broken, and the risk of disease in the human body may be increased.

If the environment is polluted and damaged, the content of certain chemical elements in the environment and the properties of some substances change, and then pollute the air, soil and organisms, and then invade the human body through the food chain and food web, and when the accumulation in the human body reaches a certain amount, it will destroy the original balance state in the human body, cause the occurrence of diseases, and even harm future generations.

1. Indiscriminate felling and unscrupulous destruction of forest vegetation, resulting in a large amount of soil erosion, destruction of forest land, and destruction of biological chains.

2. Uncontrolled development of mines, resulting in landform changes, environmental pollution, and soil erosion. Waste of resources and non-renewable.

3. Sewage discharge, polluting surface water, such as amber and rivers, resulting in poor water quality and even affecting the function of water bodies; Polluting the soil, resulting in soil acidification, salinization, etc.

4. Fishing in the dry water, draining the pond water to catch fish, only for immediate interests, not for long-term planning.

5. Waste batteries are discarded, and the harm of old batteries is mainly concentrated in a small amount of heavy metals contained in them, such as lead, mercury, cadmium, etc. These toxic substances enter the human body through various ways, and it is difficult to eliminate them after long-term accumulation.

The environment in which people live refers to the space on the earth that is composed of various factors such as air, soil, water, and sunlight. In this space, there are living beings coexisting and moving. In the natural system, this space where living organisms live is called a biosphere, where air, water, earth, rocks and sunlight provide the necessary material conditions for life activities.

The humidity of the air in the environment we live in, the air pressure conditions, the oxygen, nitrogen and other natural components in the air, the concentration of hydrogen ions and various salts in water, and the organic and inorganic chemical components of the soil are all closely related to human growth and development, aging, disease and death.

Human beings have lived on Earth for at least 3 million years, and in this long process, the human organism has formed a physical unity with the surrounding environment. Breaking this material unity, which has been formed over millions of years, would be catastrophic for humanity.

With the rapid increase in industrial production capacity, the human capacity to destroy the environment has never been as great as it is today. Minerals buried deep beneath the ground can now be easily dug out of the ground; Oil is being extracted in large quantities and is almost depleted; All kinds of synthetic chemicals can be seen in any building, and the ones that people hold in their hands, wear on their bodies, sit underneath, open their squares, look at with their eyes, and smell their noses all contain a large number of synthetic chemicals and materials. The harm of these materials to the human body has not been studied as quickly as they have been developed and utilized, so much so that people have been worried about whether they have opened one "Pandora's box" after another.

Pesticides used in a large number of agricultural production, such as organophosphorus and organochlorine (such as DDT), are harmful to human beings throughout their lives from fetal to old age. DDT has been detected in the body fat of seals around the world, and even in the Arctic Ocean, and these new dangers have been unavoidable for generations.

In the first chapter, we talked about the fact that the environment is made up of objects, and many objects make up a collection of objects, and different sets of objects are the large and small environments in which we live. The collection of objects can be divided into two categories: the collection of some objects and the universe (i.e., the collection of all objects). From this, three different types of relationships between people and the environment arise:

The relationship between man and objects, the relationship between man and the collection of partial objects, and the relationship between man and the universe. The relationship between people and objects is interconnected, mutually influential, relatively independent, and can be separated. Interconnectedness means that both people and objects are in motion, and motion will have an effect on both parties.

The relationship between the environment and humans is as follows:

The natural environment refers to the natural area and condition where organisms live, and is composed of a variety of natural geographical elements, including topography, climate, hydrology, vegetation, soil, etc., which is an expression relative to the human environment.

We can regard the whole earth as a natural environment, which is the basis for the survival of all living things, and the survival and development of any living thing is in the exchange of matter and energy with the natural environment.

On the one hand, we need to ask the natural environment for all kinds of materials and energy we need for survival and development, including air, water resources, mineral resources, land resources, biological resources, and so on.

On the other hand, in the process of using various materials and energy from the natural environment, some wastes will be generated, which cannot be used and digested within human society, so they need to be discharged into the natural environment.

Environmental problems arise in the process of interaction between human beings and the natural environment, and when human beings ask for too much material and energy from the natural environment, problems such as resource shortage and ecological destruction often occur.

When human beings discharge too much waste into the natural environment, thus exceeding the self-purification ability of the natural environment, environmental pollution problems often occur. Therefore, it is very important to deal with the relationship between humans and the natural environment, and we call this relationship "human-environment relationship".

The relationship between man and the environment should be complementary, whether it is man who transforms the environment, or who makes man. I think it's the environment that affects people in general. People always passively adapt to the environment they are in, because they passively adapt, so they slowly transform the environment they are in.

The environment does not need to take the initiative to adapt to the existence of human beings, and human beings must take the initiative to transform the environment in order to adapt to the environment. Posture.