After making the environment safe and establishing food security for his family, it was eminent that man’s population would increase. Increase in the population of such a domineering animal only meant one thing, more resources would be reclaimed thus more other animals that had previously habited alongside him would be greatly inconvenienced. There would be increased demand for food; this meant that more of the other animals eaten by man would decrease in population. An increase in man’s population means increased demand for land which leads to the most basic need; habitation or accommodation. Consequently, more land is thus reclaimed. One other aspect of man’s life that was quite disastrous to the environment is his belief in ownership. He gets to an environment, grabs some huge junk of land and turns the land his with all that lives in it (Haynes, 2010). This claim of ownership gives him authority over all other animals and plants that live in the land. He is thus free to do with them as he so please even if it means cutting don the trees and killing the animals.
The most basic food eaten by man in the history of man is fish, these are small aqua animals that are very rich in protein. This thus made them bearers of great portions of man’s implications on the environment. Fish replicates very fast, within five months, a fish is fully-grown and lays eggs, despite this rapid population growth, the fish in the terrestrial regions could not withstand the demand pressure that man laid on them (Thomas & Michael, 2001). The rate of increase of human’s population was alarming furthermore in the terrestrial regions, the commonly existing water bodies that were thus homes to fish were either small free standing lakes or rivers. This resulted in small amounts of fish that could barely sustain the high demand (Webster, 2008).
After realizing that some regions produced some products while others did not, man invented trade that defined as the exchange of goods and services. This development geared towards ensuring that there was no lack of any type of basic product in any corner of the world. This development came at a time that human population was increasing and the ecosystem was feeling the pinch of this increased population. Man had therefore started adapting to his environment, which included eating some of the food, that they hade not known all their lives. Such foods included fish. There were some regions in the world that had neither lakes nor rivers and thus had no fish; these regions did not therefore eat fish. However, with the increased population and the strain on the environment, interaction was increased and they got introduced to the delicacy. Through trade, even the far-flung areas got access to fish and the demand of fish just shot up (Grandin, 2010).
Commerce or trade as was know was good for humans, it developed economies and resulted in specialization. Life thus became a little more orderly and reduced the amount of conflict that had existed among men. However, the as life became more comfortable the population of man continued to increase a factor that piled more pressure on the natural resources and the plants and animals that man used as food. Overpopulation of Man o' Wars in uncommon territorial waters has led to shortages of fish that fishermen depend on for commerce. This was inevitable, the fishermen in thee lands simply depended on naturally existing fish in lakes, rivers and the oceans, they thus spent time day and night mining this resource that they never realized was limited (Chatterjee & Hevner, 2010).
Wars have never been uncommon in areas habited by man, as the population increase; there is the scramble for the natural resources that seem to be either constant such as land or those that appear to be diminishing. The ownership aspect of man does not help matter either since every man believes that he is entitled to a piece of some naturally existing resource such as land that coincidentally is progressively becoming scarcer. This would therefore result to conflicts as men tried to claim ownership. Owning a land meant that ones family would have a place to call home and a peaceful life, which every man believed he was entitled to. For those who could not find habitable land in the highlands, they habited the low lands where some resorted to reclaiming water bodies. This would definitely affect the aqua population key among which is fish that they depended on for commerce (Druskat &Pescosolido, 1998).
Wars are fought by able bodied men who could otherwise be fishing and conducting trade, furthermore war disrupted peace that fostered economic viability. At times of wars men had no food as all of the resulting tension can not make one engages himself in economic activities. This factor leads to shortages of economic activities in times of war. Interactions get greatly reduced as the animosity thrives. Those who once produced goods and sold them freely to their neighbors now turned foes do not do so anymore and the regions face acute shortages of the goods and services. This is secondary shortage caused by man, which coincidentally provides a break to the aqua population giving them time to multiply their population and thus withstand the demand. At such times, the economy of the regions virtually comes to a stand still as there is no economic activity that people engages in. in a nut shell, humans cause most of the problems they eventually face in life. For every action, there is a reaction or as other wise stated cause results in an effect. These sayings are invention of men who at times of wars and conflict seem to fail to understand the logic behind the statements. They thus cause themselves problems and fall victims of the very problems (Aaker & Aaker, 2010).
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