EESA10H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 99: Environmental Health, Industrial Revolution, Geosphere
20 Jan 2016
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Environment is everything that affects a living organism. Effect of environment on human health is so great: air, water, soil, biota, manmade environment (created by society) According to the who: in its broadest sense, environmental health comprises those aspects of human health, disease and injuries that are determined or influenced by factors in the environment. Atmosphere: co2 increased 30% since the beginning of the industrial revolution. Geosphere: 1/3 to 1/2 of the land surface has been transformed by human action. Industrialization: since the discovery of the fire, it begins to impact other species. Since the industrial revolution and releases of chemicals and it became very impactful. This impact started in discovery of the fire (not that important) until industrialization (very important) and discovery of chemicals/synthetic chemicals. The lack of resources has an impact on human health. Overpopulation and overconsumption is impacting our sources/environment and indirectly impacting our health.
