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Environmental Science
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• Environmental science
• An interdisciplinary branch of science that
  investigates questions related to the human
  population, resources, and damages caused by
  pollution and disturbance.

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Environment
The complex set of physical, geographic,
biological, social, cultural and political
conditions that surround an individual or
organism and that ultimately determines its form
and nature of its survival.
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A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE

• Levels of Organization
• Local ecosystems
• Biomes
• Biosphere

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Natural environments provide innumerable services
to humanity Examples???

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What are our main environmental problems?

• Resource Depletion
• Pollution
• Extinction

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Value Systems

• Input and Output
• From an environmentalist point of view, what
  would the ideal world be like?
• What do you value?