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The statement, “the human experience, no matter where you live, is relatively the same,” is in some circumstances true, but not usually. The environment a person lives in can change the human experience greatly. However the way humans evolve throughout their life learning, teaching and meeting new people and things will not usually change. Every culture has some similarities and differences but the thing that makes the human experience different is the environment a person lives in. In the countries I studied some of the similarities in the problems they had were pollution, deforestation and lack of basic needs. Pollution occurs all over the world but it can happen in many ways and that is what changes the human experience. If you live in China where there was the Songhua River spill your human experience might differ from a person who grew up in Mexico or India where there is a very serious problem of smog, which can be very deadly to breathe. The human experience might differ because a person in China would not be able to go swimming in that river. But the person in Mexico or India could go swimming but might have breathing trouble. Pollution can also be caused by overpopulation like they have in big Afghanistan cities. The overpopulation caused by fleeing refugees creates an increased amount of toxic fumes and gases being released into the atmosphere. But the human experience can be changed drastically in places with toxic smog because it can be fatal and kill children and adults. This is how the human experience differs. Another environmental problem that can change the human experience is deforestation. In India they have to deal with illegal fellers of trees as seen in my “Illegal fellers” article. But in Mexico they cut down trees to make room for farmland or business. This changes the human experience because if you had to live in a place where people would go and illegally cut down trees for profit the government wouldn’t get any money from permits to make the country any better. But in Mexico where they cut down trees to make space for farms or businesses that will help the economy grow and help the country grow, which will contribute to the human experience. The human experience is also different because of a lack of natural resources, like in Afghanistan. In Afghanistan there was a lack of natural resources as seen in my “Environment Policy” article. A lack of natural resources can change the human experience because if you grow up in Afghanistan where they have very little drinking water it will change the experience versus a person who has an abundant source of drinking water. Another reason a lack of natural resources could change the human experience is a lack of food in an environment due to soil degradation like they have in Afghanistan. With a lack of good soil to plant crops on the farmers won’t be able to make a lot of food for people. There are many ways the human experience can differ these are just a few.