What are environmental issues?
Likewise the meaning of environment has expanded. “When we think about the environment and environmental issues we each think about different things. Probably everyone correctly recognizes oil spills, air pollution and water pollution as being environmental issues. Other issues that come to mind are nuclear power” … Some other people “will point to deforestation, desertification, over fishing and overgrazing as being environmental issues. Are all of these environmental issues? Yes, and there are many more”. Fundamental are: “the ecosystems consist of air, water, land and living things (biodiversity)–species of plants, animals and other organisms, such as bacteria, viruses and so on–as all being interrelated (including natural events).” All this makes up “the environment.” And we are in it. Scientists also point out many other types of environmental disasters: the greenhouse effect which is going to cause climate change, the ozone layer disappearing, acid rain killing our lakes and
