Human+Environment+Interaction

Human Environment Interaction: How humans affect the environment and how the environment affects mankind.

The following are ways that humans and their surroundings have interacted and created negative effects in Indonesia.

How humans have affected the environment:

The water has been polluted from industrial waste. Farmers use slash-and-burn farming which starts forest fires.

How the environment affects mankind:

Since Indonesia is located on a fault line, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions are quite frequent, destroying homes and buildings as well as killing many people. Sometimes the heat can also set off forest fires.