How Humans Affect the Environment

The human population is expected to double in the next 50 years, and the ever-growing global population needs vast amounts of food, energy and raw materials. We cannot continue to get our food, energy and raw materials in the way we do now without damaging the earth's environment beyond repair. Pollution, deforestation, over-fishing, the impact of intensive farming and above all global warming will see to that. We need to find ways of improving food productivity, …

…such as buying organic food, buying cleaning products without unnecessary chemicals, recycling paper and other things, turning lights off, putting extra insulation and double glazing in their homes and driving their cars less. There are many other ways in which people can help the environment and many charities which want to as well. If everybody did all they could to help the environment, it would be a lot less damaged than it will be otherwise.