Humans and the Environment

For the past ten thousand years humans have both benefited from the environment and suffered from it as well. Humans have used their environment to grow crops and sustain livestock. But humans have also been affected by the environment in negative ways as well. For example the black plague, Sumatra tsunami and the Haitian earthquake. These two gargantuan products made by the environment helped or hindered humans.
The environment has been the life source for human beings for as long as we have been on earth. It has provided food, water, air and everything else that humans need to exist. With out the environment we would all be dead so the environment has been the number one factor in the survival of mankind.
The environment has not only helped the human population grow but it has also aided in the depletion of the human race as well. Disasters like black plague which killed fifty million people, the Sumatra tsunami which killed almost three hundred thousand people and the Haitian earthquake which killed over three hundred thousand people. These events show that the environment has a chilling way of keeping the population of humans under control.