Popular culture has experienced rapid diffusion. This has been facilitated by the modern technology in communication such as internet and television. This has impacted the environment in several ways including pollution of landscape, increasing demand for raw materials, depleting natural resources and most of all straining the environment capacity. When popular culture is diffused in to a culture, it is considered as development.  When complex roads are introduced in place, the people dwelling in that place consider it a development forgetting it is affecting their landscape.

Folk culture can alter the landscape by ignoring the natural processes such as decomposition and pollution. A good example is the management of waste. Without the diffusion of popular culture, management of waste can be poorly done leading to land pollution. Imagine a folk culture living in a dry cold area, they will be growing wheat ads dictated by the environment. If a popular culture is diffused in the area, irrigation of other crops will be introduced thus affecting the landscape.

The people from Transylvania made soup from vegetables and fruits rather than from meat. Even after the diffusion of the popular culture, the people still practice the old habits as a mark of traditional customs. Another example is the Muslims. The Muslim culture originated from the Arabian Peninsula where pigs would compete with human for water and food. The raising was pigs would be a disaster and thus they embraced a taboo against pig. To date, Muslims do not eat pig even with the diffusion of popular culture. Another example is the people of Thailand who eat water bugs and the diffusion of the American culture has not affected this.

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