ENV222H1 Lecture : ENV 222 Lecture 2.docx

• School: UTSG
• Department: School of Environment
• Course: ENV222H1
• Professor: Geoffrey Mac Donald

Document Summary

Env 222 lecture 2: january 18/2011 (relate to outline) Major categories that are going to have impacts on the environment: agriculture, resource extraction, mining, forestry, and fisheries. Are we making an impact on nature right now (in the classroom) yes, because we are using electricity, used transportation, drinking transported coffee, etc. The case of energy: humans are having impacts on the environment, largely because we have access to fossil fuel energy. As soon as you use fossil fuel energy, your supply becomes stronger, however, it has large harmful effects on the environment. Thursdays reading: climate change & biodiversity: you need to break them apart to find solutions and causes. Water pollution by toxins and infectious disease, runoff, increases in algae. Land taking away nature by paving on it, and land that is affect by agricultural purposes, or that is harmed by urbanization / touched by human activity.