ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE : HUMAN POPULATION AND ENVIRONMENT 245
building in the congested city to do their work. Increasingly, workers have home offices
linked electronically to co-workers, clients, libraries, databases, and business opportunities
elsewhere in the world. Commercial establishments are moving away from the brick-and-
mortar set-ups to more affordable, cost-efficient, far-reaching virtual offices on the Internet.
Suggestions
Almost every country in the world is spending more & more in the information technology.
Just-in-time delivery systems and recycling further reduce the amount of virgin materials
we use. We will probably never reach a point at which we don’t need to extract resources
from nature, but we may greatly lower our consumption rate as well as the rate at which
we produce wastes and pollution. This would surely have important environmental benefits.
QUESTIONS- What do you understand by the population growth and population explosion? Explains.
- What is the relation between the environment and human health?
- Write about the human rights and value education in 500 words.
- How we can prevent the HIV/AIDS in the world?
- What is the Role of information echnology in environment and human health and how it
helps the population?