At the end of this activity, students should be able to understand the relationship between the introduction of substances, energy and species into the environment by man and the changes that they cause in the environment, understand the adverse effects of pollution on the standard of living of humankind, understand the adverse effects of pollution on all the components of the natural environment and the relationships that exist in it, understand the dependency of humankind on environmental resources and factors, understand why it is necessary to include the effects of human activity on nature in macroeconomic planning and accounting, and understand why it is necessary to minimise the adverse effects of human activity on the environment.

Originally released by Learnetic, 2016.