The Environment

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The Environment
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Environment

• What is the environment?
• The natural environment encompasses all living
  and non-living things occurring naturally on
  Earth

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Questions to consider

• 1. What is nature worth?
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vTartoYpK1yI
• 2. In your opinion, what is the most pressing
  environmental issue today?

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Animal Issues

• 3. What is the cove?
• http//www.animalplanet.com/tv-shows/other/videos/
  blood-dolphins-return-to-the-cove.htm
• 4. Discuss the significance of Blackfish
• http//www.dailylife.com.au/news-and-views/dl-opin
  ion/keeping-animals-in-captivity-for-our-own-enter
  tainment-must-stop-20131126-2y7uz.html
• What is the purpose of these commercials?
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vsuE_WJWUEVs
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vFbq0lDeUd0E
• Are they effective? Discuss

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Air Issues

• 5. Discuss the impact of air pollution
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?v-1DNjJd2YfA
• Discuss What impact did air pollution have on
  the 2008 Olympic Games (held in China)?
• 6. How is air pollution a global issue?
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vUcWpkWBX04E

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Climate Change

• 7. What are the causes effects of major weather
  events?
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vlUJlWsw1sGU
• Sea Level Rising the global sea level has risen
  by 8 in. since 1870 (EPA). As a result, there are
  11 islands that may disappear (including Solomon
  Islands Bangladesh)
• (optional if time permits ) http//www.youtube.c
  om/watch?vNdZhD8zhiS0

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Oil Spills

• 8.What is the impact of oil spills on animals?
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vlHNtcqksWwg
• What was the impact of the Exxon-Valdez spill?
• (optional if time permits)
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vYPAH8XUEMY4

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Global Warming

• 9. What is global warming?
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?voJAbATJCugs
• Discuss - How are politics related to global
  warming different points of view?
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vagfoRVfr6no

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Presidential Policies on the Environment

• 10. Of the following four Presidents Theodore
  Roosevelt, LBJ, Nixon, or Carter which one do
  you think had the biggest impact on the
  environment? Justify/defend your answer.

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Theodore Roosevelt

• John Muir Conservation efforts of National
  Parks
• Newlands Reclamation Act 1902
• Allowed the federal govt to create irrigation
  projects to make dry lands productive
• Yellowstone National Park (1872)
• Grand Canyon (1919)

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LBJs Great Society

• Lyndon B. Johnson
• Wilderness Preservation Act (1964)
• Protected 9.1 million acres of natl forest from
  development
• Water Quality Act (1965)
• Required states to clean up rivers lakes

• Clean Air Act Amendments (1965)
• Established exhaust emission standards for cars
• Air Quality Act (1967)
• Set guidelines on air pollution increased
  federal govts power to enforce clean air
  standards

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Nixons Policies

• Silent Spring (1962)
• Rachel Carson published warned of the harmful
  effects of chemicals on the natural world
• Led to Earth Day demonstrations
• Clean Air Act (1970)
• Regulated levels of air pollution
• Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) established
  (1970)

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Carters Policies

• J. Carter
• Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act
• Protected more than 100 million acres of land
  doubled the size of the nations park wildlife
  refuge system

• 3-Mile Island
• Love Canal, NY
• Environmental disaster
• Long-buried chemicals began seeping up through
  the ground
• Exposure was linked to high rates of
  birth
  defects

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Environmental Issues

• Climate change
• Global warming
• Global dimming
• Fossil fuels
• Sea level rise
• Greenhouse gas
• Ocean acidification
• Conservation
• Species extinction
• Pollinator decline
• Coral bleaching
• Poaching
• Endangered species

• Energy
• Energy conservation
• Renewable energy
• Efficient energy use
• Environmental Degradation
• Habitat destruction
• 11. Of the 4 environmental issues listed, which
  one do you think we should be most concerned with
  why?

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Issues continued

• Genetic engineering
• Genetic pollution
• Genetically modified food controversies
• Intensive farming
• Overgrazing
• Irrigation
• Environmental effects of meat production
• Overpopulation
• Burial

• Land degradation
• Desertification
• Soil, Soil conservation, Soil Erosion, Soil
  Contamination, Soil salinization
• Land use
• Urban sprawl
• Habitat fragmentation
• Habitat destruction
• Nuclear Issues
• Nuclear power
• Radioactive waste
• 12. Of these 6 issues, which one do you think is
  most concerning why?

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Issues continued

• Ozone Depletion
• Pollution
• Water pollution
• Acid Rain
• Marine pollution
• Ocean dumping
• Oil spills
• Ocean acidification
• Wastewater
• Air pollution
• Smog
• Indoor air quality

• Resource Depletion
• Exploitation of natural resources
  (over-consumerism)
• Fishing Bottom trawling Illegal unregulated
  fishing Shark finning Whaling
• Logging / Clearcutting / Deforestation
• Mining
• Toxins
• Chlorofluorocarbons
• DDT
• Dioxin
• Heavy metals
• Herbicides
• Pesticides
• Toxic waste

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GROUP PROJECT

• In assigned groups, you will research one of the
  following topics.
• Acid Rain
• Air Pollution
• Global Warming
• Animal/Species Extinction
• Deforestation
• Ozone Depletion
• Ocean Issues
• sea water rising, oil spills, wastewater,
  pollution

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TO DO

• Research
• Each group member needs to research for your
  topic
• If you dont have a cell phone w/ Internet
  access, print your research
• No Wikipedia
• Consider
• World Wildlife Federation (WWF)
• National Geographic
• IPCC
• EPA

• Poster bring your own!
• Title
• At least 5 Visuals (pictures, charts, graphs,
  etc.)
• Background (5 Ws How)
• Current Info Research
• Changes in Policies, Future Implications,
  Recommendations
• Presentation
• Each group will present their topic to the class