ENV100Y5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Lithosphere, Environmentalism, Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
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Nature transformed through industry: recycling, yards, quarries, factories. Dependence on nature to provide materials for our consumption vs concern for the health of our planet an uneasy contradiction. These images had a huge impact on our perspectives on earth and the environment. Abiotic (nonliving things): continents, rocks, oceans, clouds, icecaps. Our built environment: roads, buildings, dams, factories, etc. Environmental science: pursuit of knowledge about the natural world: how the natural world"s works, how the natural resources and processes support life, scientists try to remain objective. Environmentalism: a social movement dedicated to protecting the natural world. Environmental policies and practices need to be defined by various organizations. Citizens can sue the government on environment issues. People who depend on fish as a living, farmers, developers. Environment science explores interactions between humans and the physical and biological world. Encompasses the biogeochemical-physical system in which people and other organisms exist.
