THE ANTHROPOGENIC NATURE OF THE ENVIRONMENT AL PROBLEMS AND EXAMPLES FROM THE SA CONTEXT

The leading problems to the environment is the decline in the fresh water, Adverse on the marine life, the destruction of the natural habitats and the depletion that is leading to climate change. And the natural environmental problems are floods, air pollution, global warming, storms and heat . The examples of the environmental problems in SA is the air pollution, for example the Sasolburg coal mining it is polluting the air and the lives of the people living near the mine are not safe as they will get sick.  Another example is that there is no fresh water in SA because the mines are polluting the fresh water in the dams and the rivers and the community members are dumping their wastage on the rivers and the dams, so as time goes by we will no longer have fresh water but the water with the higher level of the salt. There are numerous important environmental problems, which are a result of human activities.  All the natural hazards  are due to the existence of societies.  Human activities like pollution, deforestation and overfishing etc are primary cause of these environmental problems.