FOOD TECHNOLOGY

EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES IN FOOD SCIENCE

BIOTECHNOLOGY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which of the following activities causes more pollution and environmental degradation than any other human activity?
A
transportation
B
agriculture
C
industry
D
recreation
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Humans impact the physical environment in many ways: overpopulation, pollution, burning fossil fuels, and deforestation. Changes like these have triggered climate change, soil erosion, poor air quality, and undrinkable water.

Detailed explanation-2: -Pollution Air pollution pollutes the air that we breathe, which causes health issues. Water pollution degrades the quality of water that we use for drinking purposes. Land pollution results in the degradation of the earth’s surface as a result of human activities.

Detailed explanation-3: -Consequences include increased poverty, overcrowding, famine, weather extremes, species loss, acute and chronic medical illnesses, war and human rights abuses, and an increasingly unstable global situation that portends Malthusian chaos and disaster.

Detailed explanation-4: -Urbanization and industrialization. Since the era of industrial revolution, man has continued to introduce hazardous materials into the environment at an alarming rate. Mining and exploration. Agricultural activities. Burning of fossil fuels. Particulate matter. Plastics.

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