Urban Sprawl

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This paper begins with a historical review of how planet earth has been altered by the expansion of the human race, and the carelessness of that expansion. The paper then looks at the consequences of expansion by examining the specific problems associated with urban sprawl.

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"Before humans began to build houses, roads, villages and cities, and in fact before there very few humans at all, trees covered "two-fifths (40%) of the land" on the planet (Victor, et al, 2000). That was eight thousand years ago. Humans have grown by great numbers since then however, and have cut forests in massive quantities for warmth, cooking food, growing crops, building ships and frame houses, and producing paper. Of the original forestland, axes, fires and saws have whittled away half, and "some analysts warn that within decades, the remaining natural forests will disappear altogether.""

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