Global Environmental Issues and Challenges
in certain ways to the extent of affecting it globally. The issues discussed below relate to the relationship between human population growth and the global environmental issues. One of the main global environmental concerns in the modern world is the anthropogenic climate change triggered by greenhouse gas emissions. The emissions, widely, occur due to fossil fuel combustion, clearance and burning of forests, agricultural emissions, pastoralism and other changes in land use (“The environmental crisis”, 1). Changes in the climate affect both the ecological system and social setup. Scientists have estimated that these effects will soon lead to changes in the average surface temperature, distribution of species, climatic zones, seal… Continue Reading...