ECOLOGY
HUMANS AND THE BIOSPHERE
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Detailed explanation-1: -Humans impact the physical environment in many ways: overpopulation, pollution, burning fossil fuels, and deforestation.
Detailed explanation-2: -Answer: Humans affect regional and global environments through agriculture, development, and industry in ways that have an impact on the quality of Earth’s natural resources, including soil, water, and the atmosphere.
Detailed explanation-3: -It encompasses three categories of human impacts on the biosphere: (1) indirect depletion of living systems through alterations in physical and chemical environments, (2) direct depletion of nonhuman life, and (3) direct degradation of human life (Table 1; Karr and Chu, 1995).
Detailed explanation-4: -The human activity that creates the environmental damage with regional and global consequences is: Industrialisation.