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Environmental Crisis and Sustainable Development

The document discusses environmental crisis and sustainable development. Environmental crisis is characterized by rapid changes to the environment that are difficult to reverse, such as massive species extinctions and ecosystem destruction. Sustainable development seeks to balance environmental, social, and economic needs against the limitations societies face. The key factors affecting the environment are population growth, global warming, habitat destruction, and pollution. The main causes of environmental crisis are technological development, increased resource/energy consumption, rapid population growth, the capitalist world economy, and short-term decision making. Protecting ecosystems long-term health, renewable resources, and addressing climate change impacts across generations are important aspects of responsible environmental stewardship.

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Environmental Crisis and Sustainable Development

The document discusses environmental crisis and sustainable development. Environmental crisis is characterized by rapid changes to the environment that are difficult to reverse, such as massive species extinctions and ecosystem destruction. Sustainable development seeks to balance environmental, social, and economic needs against the limitations societies face. The key factors affecting the environment are population growth, global warming, habitat destruction, and pollution. The main causes of environmental crisis are technological development, increased resource/energy consumption, rapid population growth, the capitalist world economy, and short-term decision making. Protecting ecosystems long-term health, renewable resources, and addressing climate change impacts across generations are important aspects of responsible environmental stewardship.

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  • Environmental Crisis and Sustainable Development: Introduces the topics of environmental crises and sustainable development strategies.
  • Environmental Crisis: Defines environmental crisis with examples of extinction and ecosystem destruction.
  • Sustainable Development: Explores the concept of sustainable development and its balance between economic and environmental needs.
  • Factors Affecting the Environment: Lists key factors such as population growth and pollution affecting the environment.
  • Causes of Environmental Crisis: Identifies causes like technological development and resource consumption leading to crises.
  • Air Pollution: Describes the impact of air pollution from industrial sources and vehicles.
  • Climate Change: Discusses destructive environmental impacts due to climate change over recent decades.
  • Deforestation and Logging: Explains deforestation issues and its connection to commercial logging.
  • Over Population: Analyzes the problems and pressures caused by overpopulation on ecosystems.
  • Technological Development: Focuses on technological advancements and their effects on natural ecosystems.
  • Increase in Resource and Energy Consumption: Examines how increased energy use exacerbates environmental instability.
  • Rapid Increase of Human Population: Delves into the global growth of human population and its environmental impacts.
  • Emergence and Development of Capitalist World Economy: Discusses the impact of global capitalism on environmental resources.
  • Short-term Pattern of Decision-Making: Critiques short-term profits over sustainable environmental protection.
  • Responsible Care for Ecosystem: Describes ecosystem components and the importance of responsible environmental stewardship.
  • Long-term Health of Ecosystems and Decision Making: Focuses on long-term ecological health, decision-making, and renewable resources.
  • Why Do We Need to Protect Our Ecosystem?: Explains the various functions and services ecosystems provide to sustain life.
  • How Can We Protect the Ecosystem?: Offers practical steps individuals and communities can take to support ecosystems.
  • Call to Action: Encourages collective action toward environmental conservation.

Environmental Crisis and

Sustainable Development
Environmental Crisis

 Environmental crisis is characterized by rapid and largely unpredictable changes in the


nature of the environment, which are, if not difficult to reverse. Examples will be massive
extinctions and substantial destruction of the ecosystem.
Sustainable Development

 The idea of sustainable development can be interpreted in several different ways, but at its
heart is a development strategy that seeks to balance different and sometimes conflicting
needs against an understanding of the environmental, social and economic limitations that
we face as a society.
FACTORS AFFECTING THE
ENVIRONMENT
 POPULATION GROWTH
 GLOBAL WARMING
 HABITAT DESTRUCTION AND EXTINCTION
 WATER AND AIR POLLUTION
CAUSES OF ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS

 Technological Development
 Increase in resource and energy consumption
 Rapid increase of human population
 Emergence and development of capitalist world economy
 Short- term pattern of decision making
AIR POLLUTION

 Pollution of air, water, and soil takes a huge number of years to recover. Industry and
engine vehicle are the most obvious toxins, substantial metals, nitrates, and plastic are
poisons in charge of pollution .
AIR POLLUTION

 Smoke of the vehicles can cause the pollution and affects our body
like for example: It affects our skin
CLIMATE CHANGE

 Is yet another environmental concern that has surfaced in the last couple of decades.

Different destructive impacts that include, but are not limited to the melting of polar ice,
change in seasons , new sicknesses, and change in the general climate situation.
DEFORESTATION AND LOGGING

 Our woodlands create new oxygen and additionally help in managing temperature and
precipitation. At present, Timberlands cover 30%
of the area, but wooded areas are being lost on a regular basis because people are looking for
homes, food and materials.
OVER POPULATION

 The number of inhabitants on the planet is arriving at unsustainable levels as it confronts a


deficiency of assets like water, fuel, and food. Over population is one of the most
important environmental concerns.
CAUSES OF
ENVIRONMENTAL
CRISIS
 Technological Development
 Increase in resource and energy
Consumption
 Rapid increase of human
population
 Emergence and development of
capitalist world economy
 Short-term of decision making
Technological Development

 In the course of human history , and particularly after the industrial revolution, human
beings have been able to exert greater impact on natural resources and ecosystems.
Increase in resource and energy consumption
 The usage and cost of energy affects each and every day of our lives. Many issues arise
from the use of energy: greenhouse gas emissions, acid rain, climate change, reliance on
the depletion of fossil fuel resources particularly from the politically unstable regions of
the world.
Rapid increase of human population
 The increase in the number of individuals in a population and nations with rapid population growth have
low standards of living, whereas many nations with low rates of population growth have high standards of
living.
Emergence and development of capitalist
world economy
 Capitalist world economy increasing flows of people, resources, products energy and waste have occurred,
together with increasing environmental impacts.
Short –term pattern of decision - making
 Exhibited by many governments , companies, and individuals, which place greater
emphasis on short-term profit maximization than on environmental protection.
Responsible Care for Ecosystem
 Is a group or community composed of loving and non-living things and their interactions
with each other. Every ecosystem has two components, namely BIOTIC components and
ABIOTIC components.
BIOTIC components refer to all living organisms in an ecology while ABIOTICALLY
refers to the non-living things.

 Long- term health of ecosystems


 Renewable resources
 The consequences of man-made global warming
 Intergenerational decisions
 Long-term health of ecosystems
Protecting the long-term productivity and health of resources to meet future economic and social
needs, protecting food supplies, farmland and fishing stocks.
 Intergenerational decision making
When making economic decisions we should focus on implications for future generations, and
not just the present moment. For example, burning coal gives a short-term benefit of cheaper
energy, but the extra pollution imposes costs on future generations.
 Renewable Resources
Diversifying into energy sources that do not rely on non-renewable resource
 Prevent the consequences of man-made global warming
To ensure the environment of the planet does not deteriorate to a point where future generations
face water shortages , extreme weather events, excessive temperature . All factors that could
make living in parts of the world very difficult if not possible.
Why do we need to protect our ecosystem?
 It cleanses our water, purify our air, maintain our soil, regulate the climate, recycle
nutrients and provide us with food. They provide raw materials and resources for
medicines and other purposes. We could not live without these “ECOSYSTEM
SERVICES”
How can we protect the ecosystem?
 Reduce, reuse, and recycle
 Conserve water
 Plant a tree
 Don’t send chemicals into our waterways
 Educate
 Volunteer
TOGETHER LET’S SAVE
OUR ENVIRONMENT…..

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