Geography and Human Populations

Running Head: GEOGRAPHY AND HUMAN POPULATIONS 1
Geography and human Populations
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GEOGRAPHY AND HUMAN POPULATIONS
Geography and Human Population
Introduction
According to researchers and scientists, the current human generation is living in a period
and time which human beings have become so influential and dominant. Human activities have
transformed the state of the original earth’s geographical view. Human beings are planting fields,
damming rivers, digging up minerals, building cities, fishing the oceans, planting fields, building
cities, building roads and also congesting the atmosphere with satellites and carbon dioxide
release. This has led to the era of “Human Planet”, the “Anthropocene”.
The Anthropocene include; industrial revolution brought about by humans have led to
expansion of cities, population increase, expansion of transport networks, use and depletion of
natural resources, as a result there have been many impacts especially on ecosystem integrity,
biodiversity and many other geographical processes. In order to study where we have come from
and where we are heading to as a species, it is significant to study some general topics like
mining, infrastructure, ecosystem and climate change. These topics can be generalized and
termed as human geography. These human geography themes are not all-inclusive, and they
interdepend on each other (Zellner, Massey, & Gonzalez, 2016).
Interrelationship between Ecosystem, Mining, infrastructure and Climate Change, and how they
impact Human life
Geographers nowadays study and teach us themes that are important to our daily life. Such
geographic knowledge makes us understand the things we carried out on daily basis like travels
and how they affect the environment for example through global warming.
Relating with the above stated themes, as the geographic distribution of mining activities
widen, climate change conditions such as precipitation and temperature shift, and also more
regular and extreme weather conditions will pose complicating impacts on the sector. Climatic
conditions affects the effectiveness and stability of equipment and infrastructure, closure of sites,
availability of routes of transportation, and environmental protection. Costs of energy and water
supply in mining and infrastructural areas may also rise due to climate change (Graeme, Brian, &
Mark, 2016).
Climate change is related to ecosystem in that it has numerous impacts on it. They include
health effects due to changes in water availability in rivers to changes in biodiversity which may
lead to water borne diseases. Climate change impacts on the tree species distribution through