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Impact of Industrialization on Biodiversity - Comment.

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Industrialization is a major contributor to climate change and a major threat to biodiversity Energy drives our industries, which is provided by burning of fossil fuels. This increases the emission of Co, a GHG, leading to climate change. Due to large scale deforestation, the emitted Co, cannot be absorbed fully, and its concentration in the air increases. Climate change increases land and ocean temperature, changes precipitation patterns and raises the sea level. This inturn results in melting of glaciers, water inundation, less predictability of weather patterns, extreme weather conditions, outbreak of squalor diseases, migration of animals and loss of trees in forest. Thus, climate change is an imminent danger to the existing biodivery
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