Describe why understanding Earth’s operation as interconnecting systems with feedback mechanisms is important to climate change and other global change understanding.  Discuss how human impacts, from mechanization, industrialization, agricultural practices, and population growth, influence how the global system functions.  Focus particularly on biodiversity loss.

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Describe why understanding Earth’s operation as interconnecting systems with feedback mechanisms is important to climate change and other global change understanding.  Discuss how human impacts, from mechanization, industrialization, agricultural practices, and population growth, influence how the global system functions.  Focus particularly on biodiversity loss. 

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Earth's various operations have vital influence on climate change and other global changes. Greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane are emitted through several earth processes like volcanism, which absorb heat and cause rise in average global temperature and climate change. Earth's atmosphere also consists greenhouse gases like water vapor and carbon dioxide. They absorb radiation and cause global warming and climate change. 

There are several associated changes on the earth due to the climate change such as desertification, loss of several species of plants and animals, sea-level rise, melting of ice and glacier, loss of coastal land, soil degradation etc.

These problems are human-concerns. Therefore, the understanding of earth's operation as interconnecting system with feedback mechanisms is essential.

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