Man Is Most Responsible For Our Recent Environmental Changes
Environmental change is a continual process that has been in operation since the earth came into existence about 4,500 million years ago.Since then, dynamic systems of energy and material transfers have operated on a global scale to bring about gradual and sometimes catastrophic transforÂmations of the atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere and biosphere.For most of the earth history, the agents of change have been the natural forces like volcanoes, earthquakes and natural elements of wind, ice, water, plants and animals; all of these have interacted to produce dynamic ecosystems that both controls are controlled by each other (Mannion, 1991). Image Source: minapacific.org ADVERTISEMENTS: About four or five million years ago, however, a new agent of change emerged in the form of hominids (ancestor of ape) culminating in the evolution of Homo sapiens…