Question

How is increase in population having an adverse effect on ecosystem?

Answer 1

Humans are the consumers in an ecosystem. Ecosystems can provide basic needs in normal conditions, but due to increased population, man kept on snatching natural resources on large scale. Changing life style demands ‘more’ than 'necessary'. That has increased stress on the ecosystems and has generated vast amount of wastes. Due to continuous process of urbanization. More and more agricultural lands, marshlands, wetlands, forests and grasslands are being destroyed for buildings and other basic facilities around. As a result of this human interference, ecosystems either change or get completely destroyed.