Question

Discuss the interrelationship human health and the natural environment. what are the effect on human health, animal health and ecosystem health when changes are made to the natural environment by human activities such as profuction of goods, construction and uss of resources or increase population. highlight one example and its effect

Answer 1

Humans need to interact with the environment to obtain our food, water, fuel, medicines, building materials, and many other things. Advances in science and technology have helped us to exploit the environment for our benefit, but we have also introduced pollution and caused environmental damage.

Human health impacts of anthropogenic climatic disruption include changes in exposure to heat stress, air pollution, respiratory allergens, infectious disease, and natural hazards, as well as increased water scarcity, food insecurity, and population displacement. Significant direct human health impacts can occur if ecosystem services are no longer adequate to meet social needs. Indirectly, changes in ecosystem services affect livelihoods, income, local migration, and, on occasion, may even cause political conflict.

Human activities such as deforestation and overconsumption of non-renewable resources are causing environmental degradation, which is the deterioration of the environment through depletion of resources such as air, water, and soil; the destruction of ecosystems; habitat destruction; the extinction of wildlife; and pollution.