Answer the following.

How is urbanization responsible for destruction of ecosystems?

Urbanization is the shift from a rural to an urban society, bringing a large number of people into towns and cities. It has more of negative effects than positive, on our ecosystem.

• The more the number of people shifting towards the town, lead to inadequate land to live, thus cutting down the forest cover and modifying the natural vegetation of the area.

• Urban people change their environment through their consumption of food, energy, water, and land, thus altering the environment.

• More people mean more vehicles and more vehicles means more pollution. Urbanisation is causing a lot of pollution.

• Urbanisation directly or indirectly causes ozone layer depletion, greenhouse effect and increase in temperature of the Earth.