HLSC 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Lyme Disease, Natural Disaster, Orthohantavirus
27 Jan 2018
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10:02 am: environmental health is fundamental to human health, humans can become ill, or die from: Ingesting food, water or dust that is polluted. Pollution: water quality and water pollution, please read all sections of text, water contamination and treatment, water shortages (how does canada fare?, protecting the water supply (toxins down drains) Solid waste pollution: average canadian produces >700kg household waste per year, mostly organic kitchen, paper products and yard waste (not show, organics 28. 8, newsprint 13. 4, cardboard and boxboard 16. 5, mixed paper 11% Fossil fuels are terrestrial and marine organic remains deposited in the earth in the form of carob and known to us as coal, oil, and natural gas. Since the industrial revolutions (1800s), humans have been burning fossil fuels, thus releasing carbon back into the atmosphere as co2: atmospheric co2 levels have increased 38% since preindustrial times. Fewer cold days/nights; more frequent and hotter days/nights: heavier, more extreme precipitation, more heatwaves, more droughts.
