Environmental Degradation Slide for All

2. ENVIRONMENTAL
DEGRADATION
By
SHAHIN IMRAN

3. • Environmental degradation is a serious concern.
• It is defined as any change or disturbance to the environment perceived to be
deleterious or undesirable.
• These such as biodiversity loss some time aggravate climate change impacts such
as food insecurity – need therefore to be managed in a holistic and integrated
manner
What Is Environmental Degradation?

4. These include: degradation of land, wetland and water bodies, forests,
biodiversity loss, arsenic contamination in ground water, surface
water pollution, air pollution, solid waste disposal problems in cities
and towns, salinity intrusion in coastal zone and many localised ones.

5. How Environmental Degradation Occurs:
Environmental changes are based on
many factors including:
Urbanization
The Population Explosion
Intensification of agriculture
Increase in energy use
Increase in transportation

6. Causes of Environmental degradation

7. World energy consumption refers to the total energy used by all of human civilization. Typically
measured per year, it involves all energy harnessed from every energy source applied towards humanity's
endeavors across every single industrial and technological sector, across every country. Being the power
source metric of civilization, World Energy Consumption has deep implications for humanity's social-
economic-political sphere.

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High quantity of Exhaust gases
Secondary Pollutants
 High number of industries such as mining
 Chemical effluents
Unplanned Land-use policies

9. Effects of Environmental Degradation:
a. Water pollution
b. Air pollution
c. Soil degradation
d. Ozone Layer Depletion
f. Loss of biodiversity
g. Atmospheric changes

10. Some Solutions to Environmental
Degradation
•Afforestation
•Drip irrigation
•Mixed crops or crop rotation
•Stocking your land
•Purchase recycled products
•Conserve water
•Conserve energy
•Be an advocate to save our planet!

12. Innovative Ideas…………
• Option for sustainable and renewable way of living- GO GREEN
• 3 R’s for green lifestyle
• REDUCING
• REUSING
• RECYCLING

13. Lets Go Green………………