The man that lived before the industrial evolution had a less leisure life and a less complicated one and there fore had a low impact on his environment. Regarding his low population it ws hard for him to have such a great impact in the shape of his environment as we do now. His early life was simple and he was mostly a hunter. He may have caused a negative effect in one place or two, example when fires set up and he had no complicated means to put it off, such as fire engines.
Hunting was not so easy a job to do, epecially during whether changes when it was so cold. So in time man learnt how to domesticated animals. These animals was a source of drink, milk, as well as food, meat, and transport and was more reliable than the animals in the forest because they were in hand.' I guesss this is when the proverb," A bird i hand is worth a thousand in the bush." was founded' Having realised this man was tempted into raring a large heard which resulted to another negative impact on the environment, over grazing.The advent of agriculture marked the most significant event of pre industrial human impact on the environment. It probably originated in the Near East and involved the deliberate sowing of seeds to produce a crop. If humans were to enjoy the fruits of his labour, they needed to harvest the crop at some later date. They therefore had to remain in oe place or risk losing the crop to other animals. For the first time humans formed permanent settlements. They built shelters for themselves and their animals and barns to store their crops. This required much wood and led to further deforestration. More importantly, humans cleared much forest to provide a greater area for sowing crops. With no knowledge of minerals, they continued to grow the same crop on the same piece of land for many years, thus depleting it of essential nutrients. The soil could no longer support life and this was a major factor for the formation of desert areas.The extent of deforestation caused by humans is clearly illustrated in the United States of America. When first settled by the Europeans in the early seventeenth century, there were an estimated 170 million hectares of forest. Now there are eight million. Most of this clearance was carried out to permit the cultivation of corn and wheat in the North and tobacco and cotton in the south.
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