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Human Environment Interactions

One of the big impacts humans have made in china is that they have A LOT of pollution in China from all the factories. A reason this is important is that if the have enough pollution, people would be forced to leave China witch would make a huge impact on the rest of the world because the are the biggest import center in the world, until there's a big change in the air and water quality and then they have to clean the aftermath and make a big update in technology since it would take a long time for all the pollution to fade.

Another impact that china made in the environment is that they have water pollution Thousands of dead pigs floating past Shanghai, dramatic though they are, may be the least of China's water pollution worries. In January, a chemical accident leaked benzene, a known cancer-causing chemical, into the Huangpu River the same river where the dead pigs were discovered. More than 20 people were hospitalized as a result, according to the Wall Street Journal, and the people that lived there were forced to rely on fire trucks to deliver safe water to drink.More than half of China's surface water is so polluted it cannot be cleaned to make it drinkable, the Economist reports.

China also has a lot of desertification witch has already has already swept over almost 30% of China’s land. Every year, this area increases by about 2,460 km. In Mongolia, people have been forced to leave their villages because the desertification of land is so severe. While the deserts gets bigger, the soil disappears, up to 5 billion tones of soil is lost every year through erosion. The nutrients lost are the equivalent of 40 million tones of fertilizer, which equals the amount of chemical fertilizer used annually by Chinese agriculture.