Third World Environmental Decay and Global Warming

Third World Environmental Decay and Global Warming

Introduction

Environmental degradation takes place when human consumes a renewable resource, like forest, grassland, wildlife or soil, at the rate faster than the rate a resource can be replaced and, therefore, the resource becomes depleted (Elliot, 2002, pp 74-77). Population growth in Third World countries causes environmental degradation by increased usage of nonrenewable resources. The switch to industrialization in third world countries is resulting in deforestation, which impact the big issue of global warming in a variety of ways such as soil erosion, and emission of greenhouse gases emission.

Discussion

The ...