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The Importance of the environment to Human Life

 

Why is the Environment Important to Human Life? 

The environment is a fundamental concept that hold the lives of very many people in society and therefore without it, human life may not exist. We are from the environment, the environment is very important for everyone’s life, because life on earth is possible only from the environment. All human beings, animals, natural plants, trees and plants, weather, climate are all contained within the environment. Environment not only works to maintain balance in the climate and also provides all the things necessary for life. Due to modernization and the influence of technology developments, the importances of the environment have been forgotten hence chocking something that holds most of our lives. Take a look around you and think about how life would be if we did not have such elements that compose the environment for example trees, rivers, mountains and the different kinds of animals. Therefore, understanding the importance of environment, we all should cooperate in saving our environment.
 Below are some of the importances of the environment to human life.
  • The environment provides us with resources for production which include renewable and non renewable resources for example firewood that we use for cooking, water in rivers where hydro electricity is generated from etc.
  • The environment includes sun, water, air, and soil without which human life would not exist. It sustains life by providing genetic diversity and biodiversity. 
  • Production and consumption of activities generate waste mainly in the manner of garbage that the environment helps get rid of. 
  • Humans enjoy the beauty of mountains, lakes, rivers, deserts, and many other breathtaking natural elements only because of the existence of the environment. To expound this further many countries like Uganda have earned revenue from this kind of arrangement by charging some revenue from people who come to see and enjoy different kinds of breathtaking natural elements
  • Caring for the environment could create millions of new jobs and help reduce poverty. This can be stemmed from the concept of agriculture for example if one can effectively participate in the planting food crops, he or she will be providing food to the community, conserving the environment through planting greener plants which are so effective in for example rainfall cycle formation. The farms shall be providing jobs to the community hence eradicating poverty
  • When humans push into the territory of other animal species, diseases spread. About 60% of human infections originate from animals. Covid-19 is most likely a zoonotic disease (though we aren’t sure what animal it came from) while diseases like bird and swine flu also come from animals.  Making sure humans have enough separation from animals protects our health. Unfortunately, about 15,000 medicinal plant species face extinction, so if they go, humans miss out on potentially life-saving drugs.
There are so many importances of the environment to human life and we ought to know them always so as to protect the environment which is a life supporting factor.

Herbert Mugisha
Law student and passionate environmentalist
mugishaherbert04@gmail.com

Comments

najjuko said…
the environment should be our number one friend for real
September 8, 2022 at 9:07 PM
Anonymous said…
Thanks your perfect artils .
September 18, 2022 at 3:17 PM
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