Human Activities Human activities

Burning fossil fuels

The combustion of fossil fuels for energy production, transportation, and industrial processes releases greenhouse gases (such as carbon dioxide) into the atmosphere, leading to climate change and global warming.

Industrial activities

Industrial activities release pollutants into the air, water, and soil, including harmful chemicals, heavy metals, and toxic waste, which negatively impact human health and ecological systems.

Resource depletion and over consumption

Overconsumption and depletion of natural resources, including water, fossil fuels, minerals, and forests, leading to environmental degradation, pollution and climate change.

Over population

The rapid increase in human population, exceeding the Earth's carrying capacity and putting strain on resources, infrastructure, and ecosystems which leads to climate crisis and pollutions.

Deforestation & land degradation large-scale clearing of forests for agriculture, logging, and urbanization, resulting in habitat loss, carbon dioxide emissions, and disruption of ecosystems and climate change.

Unsustainable Mining Practices

Extraction of minerals and metals using destructive methods, such as open-pit mining and mountaintop removal, leads to habitat destruction, soil erosion, water contamination, and displacement of communities.

(OCHA, 2020)

United nations office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs