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Title: 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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