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Sustainability and The Environment: Ginno Jhep Acas Pacquing Instructor

The document defines sustainability as meeting current needs without compromising future generations' ability to meet their needs. It identifies behaviors like overusing nonrenewable resources and polluting the environment that threaten sustainability. The scientific method involves forming a hypothesis, designing an experiment, analyzing data, and sharing results. Addressing environmental problems involves scientific assessment, risk analysis, public engagement, political considerations, and long-term management.

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Sustainability and The Environment: Ginno Jhep Acas Pacquing Instructor

The document defines sustainability as meeting current needs without compromising future generations' ability to meet their needs. It identifies behaviors like overusing nonrenewable resources and polluting the environment that threaten sustainability. The scientific method involves forming a hypothesis, designing an experiment, analyzing data, and sharing results. Addressing environmental problems involves scientific assessment, risk analysis, public engagement, political considerations, and long-term management.

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Sustainability and

the Environment
GINNO JHEP ACAS PACQUING
Instructor
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
1. Define sustainability,
2. Identify human behaviors that threaten environmental sustainability,
Sustainability is the ability to meet humanity’s current
needs without compromising the ability of future
generations to meet their needs.

Sustainability is based in part on the following ideas:


> simultaneously about economic, social, and environmental well-being.
> consider the effects of our actions on the health and well-being of the natural
environment, including all living things.
> Earth’s resources are not present in infinite supply, live within limits that let
renewable resources such as fresh water regenerate for future needs.
Environmental sustainability requires a long-term
perspective to promote economic, social, and
environmental well-being, such as:

> Understand all the costs to the environment and


to society of products we consume.
> All of Earth’s inhabitants share a responsibility for
living sustainably.
Environmental experts think that human society is not operating
sustainably because of the following human behaviors :
➢Using nonrenewable resources such as fossil fuels as if they
were present in unlimited supplies.
➢ Using renewable resources such as fresh water and forests
faster than they are replenished naturally.
➢ Polluting the environment—the land, rivers, ocean, and
atmosphere—with toxins as if the capacity of the environment to
absorb them were limitless.
➢ Population continues to grow, despite Earth’s finite ability to
feed us and to absorb our wastes.
➢ Activities disrupt the ability of natural processes to regenerate;
this happens from the local to the global scale.
Focus on sustainability
Learning Objectives
1.Define environmental science.
2. Outline the steps of the scientific method.
3. Describe the five stages of solving environmental
problems.
Environmental science is an interdisciplinary field that
combines information from many disciplines such as biology,
geography, chemistry, geology, physics, economics,
sociology, demography, cultural anthropology, natural
resource management, agriculture, engineering, law, politics,
and ethics.
Ecology is the discipline of biology that studies the interrelationships
between organisms and their environment.
Atmospheric science is a branch of environmental science that
includes the study of weather and climate, greenhouse gases, and
other airborne pollutants.
Demography is the study of populations.
Environmental chemistry examines chemicals in the environment,
including air, soil, and water pollution.
Science as a Process
Science is a body of knowledge—a collection of facts about the natural
world. However, science is also a dynamic process, a systematic way to
investigate the natural world. Science seeks to reduce the apparent
complexity of our world to general principles, which are then used to
make predictions, solve problems, or provide new insights.
Scientific method is a way a scientist approaches a
problem, by formulating a hypothesis and then testing it.
It basically involves five steps:

1. Recognize a question or an unexplained phenomenon


in the natural world.
2. Develop a hypothesis, or the expected answer to the
question.
3. Design and perform an experiment to test the
hypothesis.
4. Analyze and interpret the data to reach a conclusion.
5. Share new knowledge with the scientific community.
Five stages in addressing an environmental problem
1. Scientific assessment
2. Risk analysis
3. Public engagement
4. Political considerations
5. Long-term environmental management
Thank you……keep safe everyone!!
Output:
1. Make an infographic why people need to sustain the Earth resources
2. Since environmental science is an interdisciplinary with other fields and as
mentioned in the definition given in this presentation. Creatively discuss the
connection of these fields in environmental Science.

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