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Some people say that the main environmental problem of our time is the loss of particular species of plants and animals.Others say that there are more important enviromental problems.

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Extinction of species is the most horrendous crime
humanity
 is responsible for, and
the
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future generations will hold us responsible for it. Since the dawn of Homo Sapiens, or since when we got the ability to think much better than all the other
animals
, and since when no animal could threaten
humanity
,
humans
 have started to think
themselves
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 as the owners of the planet. And
consequently
, the human started to think that it owned all the flora and fauna too. Since industrialisation,
humanity
 has cut down trillions of hectares of forest for industries
such
 as paper, furniture, industrial products and so on. The rate of deforestation far supersedes the rate of forestation and
consequently
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 the amount of land covered by forests has exponentially decreased over the past 200 years.
This
 decrement of
forest
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 area has
also
 lead to increased
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greenhouse
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green-house
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 gases, hiked rates of land, overpopulation, loss of quality of life of indigenous people and a lot of other unlikeable things. But the true torment of
humanity
 comes via its treatment of
animals
. Especially the
animals
 which hone some special physical properties which
humans
 think has value, like the tusks of elephants and walruses, or the fur of many fur-bearing
animals
 like bears,
wolfs
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, seals etc. Hunting for
game
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has
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 lead to
extinction
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the extinction
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 of many species by the hands of
humans
, like mammoths, dodos, sea-cows and a lot more. But
this
 is not the whole extent of deterioration caused by
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 of
humans
,
humans
, by virtue of cutting trees, have induced global warming, which increases
sea-level
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, disrupts climate and wind patterns, and
this
in-turn
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 causes many endemic species to go extinct. Global warming is a result of multiple sources, i.e. cutting down of trees which convert
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 gases to oxygen, and the global usage of fuels
which
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 emit
green-house
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 gases after combustion.
Also
 due to overpopulation and dumping of sewage into oceans, the ocean floor is lined with non-biodegradable plastic which harms the oceanic life in extensive ways.
This
 is how the various environmental problems caused by
humans
 affect flora, fauna and most importantly our home planet.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • biodiversity
  • extinction
  • habitat loss
  • ecosystem
  • food chain
  • imbalance
  • interconnected
  • climate change
  • pollution
  • personal actions
  • policy changes
  • education
  • awareness
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