Question

Explain four ways your lifestyle could be contributing to the degradation of this biome.

Explain four changes you could make in order to reduce your contribution to this degradation.

Answer 1

Irrespective to the type of biome the four ways that lifestyle could be contributing to its degradation is by

1. Excessive cutting down of trees for economic purposes

2. Polluting the water by land run-offs which carry human-generated waste into water bodies

3. Emission by burning fossil fuels and releasing harmful pollutants into the air resulting in the release of gases such as carbon dioxide and methane which trap heat in the earth's atmosphere. This results in climate change causing global warming. Global warming is responsible for melting of polar ice caps and the rising sea levels as well as an increase in the average temperature of the earth's surface.

The four changes that can be made are:

1. Using renewable sources of energy like harnessing solar and wind energy like using solar panels and wind mills to generate energy

2. Planting more trees especially in areas that active deforestation is carried out

3. Curbing the use of plastics which can take upto 1000 years to breakdown. Plastics cause harm to the marine and land organisms as they could be ingested or could choke the organism

4. Treating anthropogenic wastes by recycling plastic and using degradable wastes as manure and organic fertilizer