GEOL 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Exponential Growth, High Standard Manufacturing Company, Conservation Movement

• School: University of Georgia
• Department: Geology
• Course: GEOL 1120
• Professor: Adam Milewski

Document Summary

Learn to sort through the vast amount of environmental info to define the important issues. Use this knowledge to help society build a sustainable world with a decent standard of living and minimal impact. Lack of environmental wisdom is costly: quality of of life, happiness, future generations, other species, our economy. Lack leads to insufficient spending (look at concern verses risk graph on slides) Sustainability movement requires the growth of both population and consumption being reduced. A sustainable world would be one that recycles energy and matter and is conscience of the environment: define input reduction. Input reduction is reducing the amount of energy and matter we use, so that there is less waste in the environment later: compare environmental science to other branches of science. Ecology is the study of how organisms interact with each other, whereas environmental science is the overarching field that incorporates many elements of.