EESA10H3 : Lecture 1 EESA10
10 Dec 2012
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Environment that surrounds you is your environment: water, food, stress (mental health) Other factors (other than mental) affect your health as well i. e. genetics: one may be exposed to the same environmental factors as others and one may get sick and the other may not (relates to genetics) Who describes environmental health as diseases and injuries, influenced by factors in the environment: factors: social is also cultural. Earlier, we did not have any strong affect due to the environment until the discovery of the fire . The key moment when the human impact increased was after the industrial. The co2 in the atmosphere has only increased greatly after the industrial. Geosphere is also affected: many species, including human species transformed the land surface. Biosphere: clear cut of the forests, gases being suspended into the atmosphere leading to the extinction of many species, due to industrialization.
