Ecological crisis

An ecological crisis of a global scale - a myth or a reality? Problems with ecology arise, from time to time, for many centuries in a row, each time becoming more threatening. But since the second half of the nineteenth century, thanks to the total industrialization of society, they have been exacerbated many times. Over the last hundred years, about two-thirds of all forests growing on our planet have been cut down, about a quarter of the fertile land has become unusable. And nowadays, due to the mismanagement of huge agricultural holdings, cultivating for a number of years in one place such depleting crops as corn, and etching, indiscriminately, the fields of peasants and surrounding forests, this process has greatly accelerated.

Every ten years the world loses seven percent of the area of fertile soils. From the fields of our planet, up to twenty six billion tons of the fertile layer are carried out annually. There are all signs that a global environmental crisis is coming. Such a problem has actually acquired this problem since the late fifties and early sixties of the past, the twentieth century.

The modern ecological crisis is developing at a rapid pace in every country of the world, on every continent. The scale of the impact of mankind on nature is so great that there is a real threat of imbalance of large biogeocoenoses, which can lead in the future to serious problems both for the species diversity of nature and for the existence of mankind in the form we have become accustomed to in recent times. In fact, the ecological crisis means the transition of all mankind to a new level of its dependence on a gradually but steadily poorer environmental nature.

How will events unfold in the near future?

Traditional directions on which the ecological crisis is developing:

1. Withdrawal of an ever larger area of land from agricultural land use due to a significant abuse of chemical fertilizers, water and wind erosion and soil salinity.
2. The increasing chemical impact on water, livestock products and crop production, the very environment in which man lives, the destruction of forests and the like - all this can not but affect the health, and even the life of man, not to mention the direct threat of losing the ability to self-reproduction Of the environment.
3. Increased emissions of various pollutants into the atmosphere - hundreds of thousands of tons of sulfur dioxide, hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide and the like. These substances are gradually destroying the protective ozone layer around the planet, and the prospects for eliminating this layer are unpredictable.
4. Significant areas of land are converted into landfills of household and industrial waste, which means that not only the area of land suitable for agriculture decreases, but also pockets of increased danger of chemical pollution and soil, and the atmosphere, and groundwater.
5. All new nuclear power plants are under construction. And although their creators assure people of the safety of their offspring, we already saw the scenario of the development of events at such an object on the example of the Chernobyl disaster. Many people died, two cities were completely emptied, forests, water, land were contaminated with radioactive isotopes, radiation rains fell on villages and cities located thousands of kilometers from the site of the accident.

They are aggravated by the ecological crisis and local military conflicts. Laos, Afghanistan, Cambodia, Vietnam, Central America, Africa - as a result of these wars, huge forests were burned, which for centuries stood untouched, thousands of warships, training and fighting, dropped a variety of ammunition into the ocean and merged a huge amount of petroleum products. Mankind needs to urgently reconsider their attitude to nature, otherwise its answer will be all-destroying and most people will sweep away from the face of the Earth.