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Goals, History and Background What is an “environmental issue”? What are the basic causes of current environmental problems What does it mean to be an environmentally sustainable society? What is your impact or your “ecological footprint”? ____________ study organisms in their natural environment, their home Environmentalism is NOT the science of anything, it is a political movement E___________ P___________ A___________ ◦ Was constructed originally by ______________in 1970 We study the Earth with help from organizations like ________________ NASA stands for ◦ ◦ ◦ ◦ _____________________ AERONAUTICS (and) _______________ ADMINISTRATION To learn how nature works To learn how the environment affects us and how we affect the environment To learn how humans can live sustainably on Earth Habitat destruction and degradation Depletion of renewable and non-renewable resources Pollution Climate change Loss of species biodiversity Human population growth Wasteful use of resources Poverty Poor environmental accounting Lack of environmental education Sustainability creates and maintains the conditions under which humans and nature can exist in productive harmony, that permit fulfilling the social economic and other requirements of present and future generations. -from EPA website “an environmentally sustainable society meets the basic resource needs of its people in a just and equitable manner without degrading or depleting the natural capital that supplies these resources” –Living in the Environment by Miller How would this be achieved? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5NiTN0chj0 An ecological footprint is a measure of the demand of a human on the Earth’s ecosystem. The amount of biologically productive land and water needed to supply an individual with the renewable resources he/she uses and to absorb or dispose of the wastes from such resource use NOPE ◦ Crop Rotation History of it in Roman Literature In Greek Literature 1962 ◦ DDT 1969 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlHiaZFvcXA April 1970, First Earth Day 1970, Nixon creates EPA Clean Air Act Clean Water Act Endangered Species Act 1984 ◦ Pesticide gas leaked from a plant exposing >500,000 people 3,787 immediately killed >8,000 within two weeks ◦ Caused premature death for thousands more ◦ Light shown on need for environmental safety standards 1986 ◦ Largest ever recorded uncontrolled radioactive release for any civilian Operation -32 died immediately -~5,000 have died from cancer and radiation exposure ◦ Released in air for 10 days -Contaminated millions of acres of farmland
