1. Goals, History and Background

2.  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”?

3.  ____________ study organisms in their natural environment, their home

4.  Environmentalism is NOT the science of anything, it is a political movement  E___________  P___________  A___________ ◦ Was constructed originally by ______________in 1970

5.  We study the Earth with help from organizations like ________________  NASA stands for ◦ _____________________ ◦ AERONAUTICS ◦ (and) _______________ ◦ ADMINISTRATION

7.  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

8.  Habitat destruction and degradation

9.  Depletion of renewable and non-renewable resources  Pollution  Climate change  Loss of species biodiversity

10.  Human population growth  Wasteful use of resources  Poverty  Poor environmental accounting  Lack of environmental education

11.  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

12.  “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

13.  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

17.  NOPE ◦ Crop Rotation  History of it in Roman Literature  In Greek Literature

18.  1962 ◦ DDT

19.  1969  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlHiaZFvcXA

20.  April 1970, First Earth Day  1970, Nixon creates EPA  Clean Air Act  Clean Water Act  Endangered Species Act

21.  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

22.  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