How Humans Affect The Everglades

The environment offers essential resources, like nutrients that are recycled to keep soil fertile, biological services, such as providing the global pollination of crops that we depend on for food, and natural improvements for our quality of life, such as controlling the chemistry of the atmosphere. These resources are vital to the survival of the human race, and are often taken for granted. Humans are constantly using these products and amenities to assist in their lives and consequently creating wastes that are put back into their surroundings. All people have the potential to impact the environment, both positively and negatively, directly affecting their resources available to them and the quality of life for themselves and all people on
People’s impact to the environment can be either by changing the local landscape, which is most prominently seen from drilling and draining, or by adding mercury to the water through runoff from factory sites. These impacts ultimately cause the wetland to become destroyed and the wildlife population to be exposed to and affected by mercury. This causes a change in Florida’s flooding patterns and the possibility of decreased biodiversity or the potential for humans to obtain mercury poisoning by ingesting an infected fish. To prevent further destruction to this local ecosystem, the people in south Florida should try to be more thoughtful before they change the landscape through drilling and draining, considering all the possible consequences that may be associated with the action, both long and short term, and more conscientious of where we dispose of our hazardous
This ecological community has major impacts on Brazil and the globe. For example, the rainforest acts as a carbon sink, taking in excess carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas produced by humans, and releasing oxygen, a useable and less hazardous form for humans and all animals. Services such as these cannot be carried out with the adverse effects human actions have had on the rainforest, such as deforestation. Another result of deforestation is the forest area loses its ability to hold water. Because of this, there is an increase in flooding and landslides, directly affecting the surrounding areas in South America. The Rainforest’s global impact is severe because of its incredible size. It has the potential to change the climate, including precipitation patters and air concentrations. If mankind wants to improve, or at least stop degrading the rainforest, we should ban logging and start to replant and rebuild the