ES 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Tropical And Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests, Renewable Energy, Environmental Science

• School: NCSU
• Department: Environmental Science
• Course: ES 100
• Professor: Stephanie Jeffries

Document Summary

Circumstances or conditions that surround an organism or group of organisms. Complex of social or cultural conditions that affect an individual or community. Environmental science is the systematic study of our environment and our proper place in it. Environmental science is not environmentalism: activism, social movement to protect the natural world. Health: incidence of life-threatening diseases has been reduced in most countries. Resource use: tropical forest destruction has slowed & habitat protection has improved in some areas. Renewable energy: progress is being made in the transition to renewable energy sources. Carbon markets: cap-and-trade programs help limit greenhouse gas emissions. International cooperation: some international environmental protection agreements have been highly successful, while others lack enforcement. Historical perspective on our relation to the environment (over time there were 4 stages) Each era focused on different and problems and each suggested a distinctive set of solutions. We can trace much of the modern- day environmental movement to these historical perspectives.