Introduction to Man and the Environment

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Introduction to Man and the Environment

• Chapter 1

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Planet Earth
http//www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi3877962521/
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Human Impact on the Environment

• Earth is _____________years old
• Humans have been around_________
• Human impact
• Resources used for our needs
• What is the problem?
• Consumption
• population

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Human Population Growth
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Rich vs. Poor (Inequality)

• Developed Countries
• 19
• Examples

• Developing Countries
• 81
• Examples

• 3.5 billion people live at the poverty level
• What is poverty?
• Predictions for the future

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Resource Consumption

• Renewable Resources
• Nonrenewable Resources

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Resource Consumption

• Ecological Footprint-

http//www.myfootprint.org/
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Overpopulation

• People overpopulation
• Consumption overpopulation
• I P x A x T

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Environmental Sustainability

• Definition-
• To do this
• Consider natural systems
• Live within limits of renewable resources
• Understand costs to society and nature
• Share responsibility for env. sustainability

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Tragedy of the Commons

• Struggle between short-term individual welfare
  and long-term environmental sustainability and
  societal welfare
• Solution?

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The Process of Science

• The Scientific Method
• Observation
• Hypothesis and Prediction
• Experiment
• Controlled Experiment
• Control Group
• Experimental Group
• Analysis/Results
• Report
• ScientificTheory

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