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LIST of reasons that why our environment is degrading? its urgent

Shikha R Das · Accepted Answer

Hi
Aadhya,

Please find
below the solution to the asked query:

HUMAN RESOURCE IMPACT ON DEGRADATION OF
ENVIRONMENT

People are a country’s greatest resource It is
people with their demands and abilities that turn them into
resources Hence ‘human resource’ is the ultimate
resource Healthy, educated and motivated people develop resources
as per their requirements
Human resources are not equally distributed over the
world They differ in their educational levels, age and
sex
The way in which people are spread across the world is
known as ‘the pattern of population distribution’ South
and South East Asia, Europe and North Eastern North America are
densely populated High latitude areas, tropical deserts, high
mountains and areas of equatorial forests are sparsely
populated

Factors affecting population
distribution:

Geographical factors
Social, cultural and economic factors

Geographical factors:

Topography:

People always prefer plains to mountains and plateaus because
they are suitable for farming, manufacture, etc Hence the Gangetic
plains are the most densely populated areas of the world where
mountains like Andes, Alps and Himalayas have low population

Climate:

People always prefer to live in a climate which is neither
extremely hot nor extremely cold So people do not live in Sahara
desert or Polar Regions

Soil:

Fertile soils are suitable for agriculture Fertile plains
such as Ganga and Brahmaputra in India, Hwang-He, and Chang Jiang
in China and the Nile in Egypt are largely populated

Water:

People prefer to live in areas where fresh water is easily
available Hence the river valleys of the world are densely
populated

Minerals:

Places with mineral deposits are more populated Diamond mines
of South Africa, extraction of oil in the Middle East led people to
settle in these areas
Social, cultural and economic
factors:

Social:

Places where housing, education and health facilities are
largely available are highly populated Eg Pune

Cultural:

People prefer to settle down in places which are religiously
and culturally significant Eg Varanasi, Vatican City

Economic:

People largely settle in industrial areas because they
provide employment opportunities Eg , Osaka in Japan, Mumbai in
India

Conclusion

More than 90 per cent of the world’s population
lives in about 10 per cent of the land surface The distribution of
population in the world is extremely uneven
Thus the places where people live are highly prone to
faster environmental depletion and resources would be scarce This
is also because of the uneven use of resources that are spread
around the world and even at many places today, the resources are
unexplored

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