Anthropogenic impact and its consequences

Man is directly connected with nature, its capabilities and needs. Volumes and forms of communication increased along with the development of industrial society and the degree of its interest in the resources of the biosphere.

It is the influence of a person on the elements of the environment, as well as those factors that result from the economic activities of people, have the name of anthropogenic impact. It affects nature only destructively. The fact is that anthropogenic impact leads to depletion of resources, deterioration of the ecological situation and the formation of an artificial landscape. The fact is that this situation leads to homogenization of the biosphere. The result of human activity is the formation of monotonous agro-systems, which arose from elementary ecological ones. A serious failure is that the mass destruction of flora and fauna causes an ecological imbalance.

Anthropogenic impact on nature causes disruptions in the natural flow of all evolutionary processes. Due to the fact that it is divided into several types of influence, this type of human intervention may differ in the time frame and nature of the damage inflicted.

So, the impact can be intentional and unintentional. Among the forms of manifestation of the first type is the use of soil for perennial plantations, the creation of reservoirs and canals, the construction and creation of cities, drainage of bogs and drilling of wells. And an unintended anthropogenic impact is a qualitative change in the gas composition of the atmospheric layer, pollution of the environment, acceleration of metal corrosion, acid rain and changes in the climatic conditions of the continent.

It is the second type of influence that is considered to be the main one, because it is poorly controlled and can lead to hard-to-predict consequences. Therefore, control over this issue has long become the main problem of ecology.

The fact is that the anthropogenic impact over the past several decades has surpassed in strength all the forces of nature and the evolution of the biosphere itself. All physical laws are violated, and the natural balance is in complete imbalance.

There are two main points of view that try to explain the situation of the future in the event that a person can overcome the negative impact and technological progress.

So, according to the first, a negative anthropogenic impact on the environment can slow down the same scientific and technological progress. Proponents of the second, natural theory, suggest that this negative impact should be artificially reduced to a minimum, at which nature can return to its former, tranquil state and stay there. At the same time, the regulatory capabilities of the biosphere will be sufficient to maintain such stability. However, this situation will require a person to drastically change his way of life in all permissible spheres of life.

The fact is that limiting the negative anthropogenic impact on the environment is possible only when society has a certain level of culture and morality. The process by which it becomes possible to form a harmoniously developed personality is very difficult to create. But this need is simply global. Modern living conditions simply require a harmonious existence with nature from us. Humanity will pass into the epoch of the noosphere only when the coevolution of people and the biosphere will be observed. It is necessary to strive for this, because, otherwise, there will be a number of irreversible consequences, under which nature itself will revolt against us.