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Human activity is harming the Earth in several key ways. Deforestation is a major issue, as humans cut down forests for various purposes like fuel and construction at a rate faster than new trees can grow, reducing important carbon absorption and animal habitats. Air pollution is also a serious problem caused by industries, vehicles, and other human sources, and poor air quality is estimated to cause millions of premature deaths each year. While humans do some beneficial activities like creating medicines and technologies, the negative effects of activities like deforestation and pollution currently outweigh the positives. Efforts must be made to protect the environment and reduce human impacts.

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An Argumentative Essay

Human activity is harming the Earth in several key ways. Deforestation is a major issue, as humans cut down forests for various purposes like fuel and construction at a rate faster than new trees can grow, reducing important carbon absorption and animal habitats. Air pollution is also a serious problem caused by industries, vehicles, and other human sources, and poor air quality is estimated to cause millions of premature deaths each year. While humans do some beneficial activities like creating medicines and technologies, the negative effects of activities like deforestation and pollution currently outweigh the positives. Efforts must be made to protect the environment and reduce human impacts.

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  • An Argumentative Essay: Discusses the impact of human activity on Earth and varying perspectives about this influence.

An argumentative essay:

People have been living on the Earth for thousands of years. No one can deny the fact
that the Earth is being impacted by human activity more and more. These actions have
both negative and positive effect on Earth. Some people believe that the Earth is being
harmed by human activity while others are making the Earth a better place to live. In
other words, human are doing more harm to Earth than making it better. There are
many reasons to demonstate this idea such as: deforestation and air pollution.

Fisrt of all, human activity has damaged natural enviroment and almost exhausted
natural resources. Especially, deforestation is being increased by human. Forests are
the essential source of oxygen and tree keep the soil from erosion. Futhermore, forests
are habitats of a lot of animals. Although human need oxygen to survive and trees
provide us this most important element for living, deforestation a process when trees
are being removed, is happening in many part of the world. According to data
compiled by the University of Maryland and Google, the world lost more than 500
million acres of forest between 2000 and 2012. Over the same period, the planet
gained a mere 0.8 million acres of forest cover. People cut down trees for diffenrent
purposes like using as fuel, producting paper, making furniture, furnishing their
houses, urbanization and etc. While the rate of growing new trees is lesser than the
cutting trees. Unplanned urbanization also effects to the planet. People deforest to
build new constructions. Consequently, they cut off thousands trees in each moment. It
is not only affect the climate change but also damages to biodiversity.

Another harmful effect resulting from human activity is air comtamination. The
W.H.O. has estimated that poor air quality is responsible for the deaths of 3.7 million
people younger than 60 in 2012. It is a most serious problem of the current time all
over the world. In reality, inductries, cars, buses and other vehicle continuously
increasing day by day and smoke from all these is making Earths atmosphere more
and more polluted. Of course, human activity also produces a lot of pollution like
burning fossil fuels, coal and oil, release of harmful gases and substances from
factories, motorbikes and etc. The exhaust air from factories is given out. White
pollution can be found everywhere. In some big cities, the color of the sky has turned
from blue to gray. Moreover, polluted air is causing damage to the whole ecological
system and affects the lives of plants, animals and human. In particular, air pollution is
one of the main factors, which detrusts our Earth everyday.

It is clean that some people still have tried to make the Earth a better place to live.
"In studying the wetland systems, we were surprised to find a combination of human
and natural contributions," Luzzadder-Beach said. For instance, people construct house
to live in, make food to feed ourselves, make clothes to keep warm, plant trees to help
carbon dioxide absorption, created programs to save endangered animals. Likewise,
human are also doing some benifitcial activities like making new drugs for combating
serious diseases like cancer, making different machines to help people in difficult
situation, and facilitating people in transportation. Nevertheless, people take more
from the Earth than they give to the Earth. So it can deny that human activity is
damaging the Earth.

In conclusion, human activity like destroy forests and polluted the air have
disadvantaged effect to the Earth. It bring about a lot of disastrous consequences
impact on plants, animals, and human. Fortunately, people have gradually realized the
problem and they need to make the Earth become a better place to live. Like forest
minister Rajendra Arlekar urged people to protect the environment. "We must ask
ourselves how we are contributing towards the environment. We must make efforts, on
a daily basis, to protect the environment,"

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