Abstract:
Abstract:
Mother Nature operates in a manner that seeks to mitigate the detrimental impacts on the environment, ultimately benefiting all living beings. However, this balance has a limit. Humanity’s evergrowing demand for natural resources leads to unscientific extraction, resulting in rampant overexploitation. The repercussions of these unscientific, injudicious and unsustainable anthropogenic activities extend far beyond what can be amended by nature. As the obvious consequence of overexploitation, humankind suffers from a scarcity of basic resources necessary for a sustainable and high-quality life.
Further, unchecked human interferences lead to disastrous natural events like floods or droughts. Citing a few instances concerning water resources, this article aims to illustrate how nature strives to preserve the balance of the earth system while also highlighting how certain human activities severely disrupt this equilibrium beyond remediation. Instances of unsustainable exploitation of global groundwater reserves and uncontrolled sand mining on the riverbed are discussed in detail.
