Environmental Stresses on Womens Health
The issue is whether or not environmental stresses are caused by an increase resource consumption rather than population growth primarily by third world countries. ... Benedick, the environmental problems are: 1) changing climate, bringing on drought, flooding, and assorted other problems; 2) depletion of the ozone layer, which protects humans, plants, and animals from ultraviolet radiation; 3) loss of biological diversity due to mass extinctions of animal and plant species; 4) spread of arid lands, desertification, and soil erosion on a global scale; 5) pollution of marine and fresh waters, and overfishing; 6) destruction of forests; and 7) worldwide diffusion of hazardous substances. ... The perspective of the developing countries, according to Adil Najam, argues that the main factor for our earth’s environmental problems comes from a huge increase of resource consumption in the developed world and not from a population growth as the environment-population community claims it to be.