EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Developed nations use about 75 percent of the world’s resources, although they make up only 20 percent of the world’s population. This rate of consumption creates more waste and pollution per person then in developing countries.

Detailed explanation-2: -The list of issues surrounding our environment go on, but there are three major ones that affect the majority of them overall: global warming and climate change; water pollution and ocean acidification; and loss of biodiversity.

Detailed explanation-3: -Human population growth impacts the Earth system in a variety of ways, including: Increasing the extraction of resources from the environment. These resources include fossil fuels (oil, gas, and coal), minerals, trees, water, and wildlife, especially in the oceans.

Detailed explanation-4: -The IMF refers to the classification of countries as Advanced and Emerging and Developing Economies.

Detailed explanation-5: -The impact of so many humans on the environment takes two major forms: consumption of resources such as land, food, water, air, fossil fuels and minerals. waste products as a result of consumption such as air and water pollutants, toxic materials and greenhouse gases.