The Human Influence

The Human Influence

 Humans have been changing the look of the landscape of the Earth since the beginning. At the start we may have dug a few holes to bury something or to plant some seeds, or maybe some rocks were moved or a few trees cut down to build a house and of course eating a variety of plants and animals. The scale of how much we are changing the landscape at has increased every year. From what I said above to the digging of canals and building of dams, the mining of the earth for mass amounts of ore and rock, the clear felling of trees for furniture and farms, the hunting of animals for fur as decoration (i have not listed all the changes we are making, just a few so that you won't be here forever). Most of these things have only really changed drastically in the last 100 years. I am no Eco-Warrior but with evolution has come a lack of respect for Our Home.

 Here is a video discussing major impacts we are having on the environment. I hope you enjoy and learn something from it.

https://youtu.be/5eTCZ9L834s

Our Home

Our Home

 The Earth is our home. It is the 3rd planet out from the Sun in our solar system, this is one of the reasons we can actually live here. If it was too close it would be too hot for life on earth, as we know it to live and on the flip side if we were too far away it would be too cold for life as we know it to survive. There are many other theories on how life on Earth began, one of these theories is known as the "Theory of Consecutive Creation" or "Catastrophism" which is the theory of many catastrophes causing extinction of the existing life and then the forming of new life, which are a different form of the previous ones, over millions of years these new forms of life evolve. This theory was an early adaption of evolution supported by French scientists, Georges Cuvier and Orbigney, and is an example of a theory of creation involving the change in the Earth's geography which effected evolution.  The catastrophes (natural disasters) would have effected the geography of the planet, which in turn would, in theory, cause the new life to adapt to the surroundings, which in turn would lead to faster, smarter and stronger species.

Credit;
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Earth_-_Africa,_Middle_East_and_Europe_(16728031541).jpg

for the photo.