MILLERSPOOLMAN LIVING IN THE ENVIRONMENT 17 TH CHAPTER
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MILLER/SPOOLMAN LIVING IN THE ENVIRONMENT 17 TH CHAPTER 1 Environmental Problems, Their Causes, and Sustainability
Core Case Study: A Vision of a More Sustainable World in 2060 • A transition in human attitudes toward the environment, and a shift in behavior, can lead to a much better future for the planet in 2060 • Sustainability: the capacity of the earth’s natural systems and human cultural systems to survive, flourish, and adapt into the very long-term future
Fig. 1 -1 a, p. 5
1 -1 What Are Three Principles of Sustainability? • Concept 1 -1 A Nature has sustained itself for billions of years by using solar energy, biodiversity, and nutrient cycling. • Concept 1 -1 B Our lives and economies depend on energy from the sun and on natural resources and natural services (natural capital) provided by the earth.
Environmental Science Is a Study of Connections in Nature (1) • Environment: • Everything around us • “The environment is everything that isn’t me. “ • Environmental science: interdisciplinary science connecting information and ideas from • Natural sciences: ecology, biology, geology, chemistry… • Social sciences: geography, politics, economics • Humanities: ethics, philosophy
Environmental Science Is a Study of Connections in Nature (2) • How nature works • How the environment affects us • How we affect the environment • How to deal with environmental problems • How to live more sustainably
Nature’s Survival Strategies Follow Three Principles of Sustainability 1. Reliance on solar energy • The sun provides warmth and fuels photosynthesis 2. Biodiversity • Astounding variety and adaptability of natural systems and species 3. Chemical cycling • • Circulation of chemicals from the environment to organisms and then back to the environment Also called nutrient cycling
From Simple Cell to Homo Sapiens Fig. 1 -2, p. 7
First simple cells appear (about 3. 5 billion years ago) First multicellular life appears (about 1 billion years ago) First major land plants appear (about 475 million years ago) Dinosaurs disappear (about 65 million years ago) Homo sapiens arrives (about 200, 000 years ago) Fig. 1 -2, p. 7
Three Principles of Sustainability
Solar Energy Chemical Cycling Biodiversity Fig. 1 -3, p. 8
Sustainability Has Certain Key Components • Natural capital: supported by solar capital • Natural resources: useful materials and energy in nature • Natural services: important nature processes such as renewal of air, water, and soil • Humans degrade natural capital • Scientific solutions needed for environmental sustainability
Natural Capital = Natural Resources + Natural Services Fig. 1 -4, p. 9
Solar energy Natural Capital = Natural Resources + Natural Services Air Renewable energy (sun, wind, water flows) Air purification Climate control UV protection (ozone layer) Life (biodiversity) Population control Water purification Pest control Waste treatment Soil Nonrenewable minerals (iron, sand) Soil renewal Natural gas Oil Land Food production Nutrient recycling Nonrenewable energy (fossil fuels) Coal seam Natural resources Natural services Fig. 1 -4, p. 9
Nutrient Cycling Fig. 1 -5, p. 10
Organic matter in animals Dead organic matter Organic matter in plants Decomposition Inorganic matter in soil Fig. 1 -5, p. 10
Natural Capital Degradation Fig. 1 -6, p. 10
Some Sources Are Renewable and Some Are Not (1) • Resource • Anything we obtain from the environment to meet our needs • Some directly available for use: sunlight • Some not directly available for use: petroleum • Perpetual resource • Solar energy
Some Sources Are Renewable and Some Are Not (2) • Renewable resource • Several days to several hundred years to renew • E. g. , forests, grasslands, fresh air, fertile soil • Sustainable yield • Highest rate at which we can use a renewable resource without reducing available supply
Some Sources Are Renewable and Some Are Not (3) • Nonrenewable resources • Energy resources • Metallic mineral resources • Nonmetallic mineral resources • Reuse • Recycle
Reuse Fig. 1 -7, p. 11
Recycle Fig. 1 -8, p. 12
Countries Differ in Levels of Unsustainability (1) • Economic growth: increase in output of a nation’s goods and services • Gross domestic product (GDP): annual market value of all goods and services produced by all businesses, foreign and domestic, operating within a country • Per capita GDP: one measure of economic development
Countries Differ in Levels of Unsustainability (2) • Economic development: using economic growth to raise living standards • More-developed countries: North America, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, most of Europe • Less-developed countries: most countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America
Countries by Gross National Income per Capita Supplement 8, Fig 2
1 -2 How Are Our Ecological Footprints Affecting the Earth? • Concept 1 -2 As our ecological footprints grow, we are depleting and degrading more of the earth’s natural capital.
We Are Living Unsustainably • Environmental degradation: wasting, depleting, and degrading the earth’s natural capital • Happening at an accelerating rate • Also called natural capital degradation
Natural Capital Degradation Fig. 1 -9, p. 13
Natural Capital Degradation of Normally Renewable Natural Resources Climate change Shrinking forests Decreased wildlife habitats Air pollution Soil erosion Species extinction Water pollution Aquifer depletion Declining ocean fisheries Fig. 1 -9, p. 13
Pollution Comes from a Number of Sources (1) • Sources of pollution • Point sources • E. g. , smokestack • Nonpoint sources • E. g. , pesticides blown into the air • Main type of pollutants • Biodegradable • Nondegradable • Unwanted effects of pollution
Pollution Comes from a Number of Sources (2) • Pollution cleanup (output pollution control) • Pollution prevention (input pollution control)
Point-Source Air Pollution Fig. 1 -10, p. 14
Nonpoint Source Water Pollution Fig. 1 -11, p. 14
Overexploiting Shared Renewable Resources: Tragedy of the Commons • Three types of property or resource rights • Private property • Common property • Open access renewable resources • Tragedy of the commons • Common property and open-access renewable resources degraded from overuse • Solutions
Ecological Footprints: A Model of Unsustainable Use of Resources • Ecological footprint: the amount of biologically productive land water needed to provide the people in a region with indefinite supply of renewable resources, and to absorb and recycle wastes and pollution • Per capita ecological footprint • Unsustainable: footprint is larger than biological capacity for replenishment
Patterns of Natural Resource Consumption Fig. 1 -12 a, p. 15
Patterns of Natural Resource Consumption Fig. 1 -12 b, p. 15
Natural Capital Use and Degradation Fig. 1 -13, p. 16
Total Ecological Footprint (million hectares) and Share of Global Biological Capacity (%) United States 2, 160 (19%) European Union United States 2, 810 (25%) European Union China India Japan Per Capita Ecological Footprint (hectares person) China 2, 050 (18%) 780 (7%) India 9. 7 4. 7 1. 6 0. 8 Japan 540 (5%) 4. 8 Number of Earths 2. 5 Unsustainable living 2. 0 1. 5 Projected footprint 1. 0 Ecological footprint 0. 5 0 1961 1970 1980 1990 2000 Sustainable living 2010 2020 2030 2040 2050 Year Fig. 1 -13, p. 16
Stepped Art Fig. 1 -13, p. 16
Global Human Footprint Map Supplement 8, Fig 7
IPAT is Another Environmental Impact Model I=Px. Ax. T • • I = Environmental impact P = Population A = Affluence T = Technology
IPAT Illustrated Fig. 1 -14, p. 17
Less-Developed Countries Population (P) Consumption person (affluence, A) Technological impact per unit of consumption (T) Environmental impact of population (I) More-Developed Countries Fig. 1 -14, p. 17
Case Study: China’s New Affluent Consumers • Leading consumer of various foods and goods • Wheat, rice, and meat • Coal, fertilizers, steel, and cement • Second largest consumer of oil • Two-thirds of the most polluted cities are in China • Projections for next decade • Largest consumer and producer of cars
Natural Systems Have Tipping Points • Ecological tipping point: an often irreversible shift in the behavior of a natural system • Environmental degradation has time delays between our actions now and the deleterious effects later • Long-term climate change • Over-fishing • Species extinction
Tipping Point Fig. 1 -15, p. 19
Tipping point Fig. 1 -15, p. 19
Cultural Changes Have Increased Our Ecological Footprints • 12, 000 years ago: hunters and gatherers • Three major cultural events • Agricultural revolution • Industrial-medical revolution • Information-globalization revolution • Current need for a sustainability revolution
Technology Increases Population Fig. 1 -16, p. 19
Human population Information-globalization revolution Industrial-medical revolution Agricultural revolution 12, 500 yrs ago 275 yrs ago 50 yrs ago Present Time (not to scale) Fig. 1 -16, p. 19
1 -3 Why Do We Have Environmental Problems? • Concept 1 -3 Major causes of environmental problems are population growth, wasteful and unsustainable resource use, poverty, and exclusion of environmental costs of resource use from the market prices of goods and services.
Experts Have Identified Four Basic Causes of Environmental Problems 1. Population growth 2. Wasteful and unsustainable resource use 3. Poverty 4. Failure to include the harmful environmental costs of goods and services in market prices
Causes of Environmental Problems Fig. 1 -17, p. 20
Causes of Environmental Problems Population growth Unsustainable resource use Poverty Excluding environmental costs from market prices Fig. 1 -17, p. 20
Causes of Environmental Problems Population growth Unsustainable resource use Poverty Excluding environmental costs from market prices Stepped Art Fig. 1 -17, p. 20
Exponential Growth of Human Population Fig. 1 -18, p. 21
13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 Industrial revolution 2 Black Death—the Plague 2– 5 million years 8000 Hunting and gathering 6000 4000 2000 Time B. C. Billions of people ? 1 2000 0 2100 A. D. Agricultural revolution Industrial revolution Fig. 1 -18, p. 21
Affluence Has Harmful and Beneficial Environmental Effects • Harmful environmental impact due to • High levels of consumption • High levels of pollution • Unnecessary waste of resources • Affluence can provide funding for developing technologies to reduce • Pollution • Environmental degradation • Resource waste
Poverty Has Harmful Environmental and Health Effects • Population growth affected • Malnutrition • Premature death • Limited access to adequate sanitation facilities and clean water
Extreme Poverty Fig. 1 -19, p. 22
Harmful Effects of Poverty Fig. 1 -20, p. 22
Lack of access to Adequate sanitation facilities Number of people (% of world's population) 2. 6 billion (38%) Enough fuel for heating and cooking 2 billion (29%) Electricity 2 billion (29%) Clean drinking water 1. 1 billion (16%) Adequate health care 1. 1 billion (16%) Adequate housing 1 billion (15%) Enough food for good health 1 billion (15%) Fig. 1 -20, p. 22
Effects of Malnutrition Fig. 1 -21, p. 23
Prices Do Not Include the Value of Natural Capital • Companies do not pay the environmental cost of resource use • Goods and services do not include the harmful environmental costs • Companies receive tax breaks and subsidies • Economy may be stimulated but there may be a degradation of natural capital
Environmentally Unfriendly Hummer Fig. 1 -22, p. 24
Different Views about Environmental Problems and Their Solutions • Environmental ethics: what is right and wrong with how we treat the environment • Planetary management worldview • We are separate from and in charge of nature • Stewardship worldview • Manage earth for our benefit with ethical responsibility to be stewards • Environmental wisdom worldview • We are part of nature and must engage in sustainable use
1 -4 What Is an Environmentally Sustainable Society? • Concept 1 -4 Living sustainably means living off the earth’s natural income without depleting or degrading the natural capital that supplies it.
Environmentally Sustainable Societies Protect Natural Capital and Live Off Its Income • Environmentally sustainable society: meets current needs while ensuring that needs of future generations will be met • Live on natural income of natural capital without diminishing the natural capital
We Can Work Together to Solve Environmental Problems • Social capital • Encourages • Openness and communication • Cooperation • Hope • Discourages • Close-mindedness • Polarization • Confrontation and fear
Case Study: The Environmental Transformation of Chattanooga, TN • Environmental success story: example of building their social capital • 1960: most polluted city in the U. S. • 1984: Vision 2000 • 1995: most goals met • 1993: Revision 2000
Chattanooga, Tennessee I Fig. 1 -23, p. 26
Individuals Matter • 5– 10% of the population can bring about major social change • We have only 50 -100 years to make the change to sustainability before it’s too late • Rely on renewable energy • Protect biodiversity • Reduce waste and pollution
Wind Power Fig. 1 -24, p. 27
Planting a Tree Fig. 1 -25, p. 27
Three Big Ideas • 1. We could rely more on renewable energy from the sun, including indirect forms of solar energy such as wind and flowing water, to meet most of our heating and electricity needs. • 2. We can protect biodiversity by preventing the degradation of the earth’s species, ecosystems, and natural processes, and by restoring areas we have degraded.
Three Big Ideas 3. We can help to sustain the earth’s natural chemical cycles by reducing our production of wastes and pollution, not overloading natural systems with harmful chemicals, and not removing natural chemicals faster than those chemical cycles can replace them.
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