What is Environmental Crisis?
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Environmental crisis refers to a situation when an environment fails to perform its vital function of life sustenance.
The environment is suitable as soon as 1. Resource extraction remains below the rate of resource generation.2. Generation of waste remains within the absorption capacity of the environment.
Reasons for the Environmental Crisis:
(1) Population Explosion
The high rate of growth of population adversely affects the environment.
It increases the demand for environmental resources but their supply is limited.
This results in overuse and misuse of resources.
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An ecological crisis occurs when changes to the environment of a species or population destabilizes its continued survival. Some of the important causes include: Degradation of an abiotic ecological factor (for example, increase of temperature, less significant rainfalls) Increased pressures from predation.
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