ENV100Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Environmental Science, Overconsumption

• School: UTM
• Department: Environment
• Course: ENV100Y5
• Professor: Stephen Scharper

Document Summary

We commonly think we can only be one or the other (hippy vs. scientist) Issues of the course will talk about science of environment, how humans impact it and the challenges we face. We have extracted more resources in the 50 years than the rest of the. Massive, rapid irreversible changes loss of biodiversity net gains in human development comes with a cost reverse the degradation is very unlikely population poverty and over-consumption are the root problems. **sustainability** balancing economy and ecology this is our future goal, use resources while maintaining fully functioning ecological systems. 3 legged sustainability stool: economic leg= good jobs, wages, infrastructure, fair trade. Environmental: 0 pollution and waste, renewable energy conservation etc. Social: working conditions, health service, education, social justice (bob willard) Carl sagan: don t sit this one out do something. Environmental science helps understand our relationship with the world and lets us attempt to solve and prevent problems with the environment.