Building Cities
- Land is cleared
- Deforestation occurs
- loss of carbon capture and carbon sinks
Sourcing materials
Oil Rigs
- Used for energy
- and Plastics
Open Pit Mines
- Extract metals
- Low cost
- Environmentally destructive
Industry Polution
Water Polution
- harmful to people dependent on rivers
Air Pollution
- Haze
- From vehicles
- Tak Tak
- Two stoke engines
- burns diesel and produces a lot of smoke
Impacts
Housing developments in cities create resource demands on the natural environment and pollute the environment with waste products