I find man and the environment an excellent work and strongly recommend it not only as a text for college and high school students but also for general reading professor boughey presents his important data concisely notably as the result of earnest fact finding rather than easy fault finding his holistic treatment of his theme is most helpful. Human impacts on the environment or anthropogenic impact on the environment includes changes to biophysical environments and ecosystems biodiversity and natural resources caused directly or indirectly by humans including global warming environmental degradation such as ocean acidification mass extinction and biodiversity loss ecological crisis and ecological collapse. Man and environment 1 man environment presented by sehar mangi bed ii sukkur iba 2 1 human beings depend on the environment 3 from biological perspective biotic living components cannot survive in isolation they must interact with physical or abiotic non living environments 4. And more recently advances in genetic modification have raised concerns about the environmental impact of newly developed crops 4 in particular the domestication of livestock and other species including dogs and cats by early humans affected the environment by altering the land in significant ways