What is ecology

What is ecology

Ecology – science about relationship of living beings and the communities formed by them with the environment in which they exist. In that sense which is now used most often the word "ecology" is meant as the condition of this Wednesday which was affected by the person.

And it is valid, any community of living organisms did not do such harm to the nature and the environment as human community. Human activity in the last decades was so destructive that it is already possible to speak about the real ecological crisis at which there is a question of survival of the person. But it is not necessary to confuse ecology and environmental protection. An object of applied ecology is all biosystem in general, with all communities of living beings making it. Its subsections is, for example ecology of animals, fishes, plants, insects and even mushrooms. There were new directions of this science studying a social component interaction between society and the nature. Such direction as industrial ecology is of great interest. Object of its study sent influence of results of industrial human activity and that harm which they do to the environment. Industrial ecology predicts those harmful consequences for mankind which are connected with air pollution, greenhouse effect and loss of the infected precipitation. This science proved direct interrelation between destruction of the biosphere and deterioration in human health. The main objective of the scientists working in this area is development of methods and technologies, the recommendations allowing to use rationally natural resources and to minimize that harm which the person does to the environment at their production. Ecologists warn that any influence of the person, positive or negative, on the environment, involves the same change of all ecosystems making it. Therefore, any destructive influence by a boomerang returns to the person and affects his health most ruinously. In a pursuit of a profit, people destroy the biosphere of Earth therefore bases of ecological literacy it is necessary to train from the earliest age. Besides, toughening of control of activity of large and small industrial corporations and the enterprises which the rash actions and greed ruin all live on our planet is necessary.

Author: «MirrorInfo» Dream Team


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