FRHD 1100 Final: FRHD 1100 EXAM NOTES
29 May 2018
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FRHD 1100 EXAM
ENVIRONMENT
• Environmental awareness
o Definitions
▪ Ecosystem
• Community of organisms that share a physical and chemical
environment
o History
▪ Post world war 2
• Air and water pollution
• Pesticides and fertilizers
• Radioactive waste
▪ Past 20 years
• Environmental performance index
o Protect ecosystems and human health
▪ Link to sustainable development goals
• Climate and energy
• Biodiversity and habitat
• Fisheries
• Forests
• Agriculture
• Water resources
• Health impacts
• Air quality
• Water sanitation
• Climate change
o Significant long term change in a regio’s aerage eather
▪ b/c of greenhouse gases→ warm the earth→ greenhouse effect
• primary
o carbon dioxide
o methane
o nitrous oxide
o ozone
o water vapour
▪ b/c of human activities→ more greenhouse gases→ enhanced
greenhouse effect
• why
o burning fossil fuels
• Global warming
o A ireasig aerage teperature of the earth’s atosphere
▪ Impact
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• Floods
• Droughts
• Air pollution
• Increasing allergenic pollens and fungal spores
• Hurricanes
• Rising food prices
• Protecting the planet
o International initiatives
▪ Kyoto protocol
• Japan 2005
• 141 countries
• set targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
o ie Canada
▪ factory and power plant cutbacks
▪ energy efficient
buildings/homes/vehicles/appliances
▪ financial incentives
▪ financial support for public transit/alternative fuels
▪ Bali action plan
• Post Kyoto protocol agreement
• Working groups
o Long term cooperative action = assembled
o Kyoto protocol = negotiate with developed countries for
new deep emissions reductions
▪ Copenhagen accord
• Denmark
• 2009
• finalize bali action plan
o not legally binding
• successes
o global warming below 2 degrees
o fast start funding to adapt to climate change
▪ Rio +20
• Brazil
• 2012
• results
o sustainable development goals
o stronger united nations environment program
o 10 year framework of sustainable consumption and
production programs
• climate change=continued partnership
▪ Paris agreement
• 2015
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• signed by delegates of united nations framework convention on
climate change
• commitments
o goal=below 2 degrees
▪ aim=below 1.5 degrees
o reach nationally determined contributions
o carbon neutrality by 2050
▪ Carbon offsets
• Credit for greenhouse gas reductions
• 2 ways
o businesses selling energy efficient products can sell carbon
offsets
o individuals can purchase carbon offsets to support global
sustainability
▪ Cap and trade
• System for reducing pollution
o Cap
▪ Legal limit of greenhouse gas emissions that can be
emitted each year
o Trade
▪ Legal agreement between companies to swap
permission to emit greenhouse gases
o Environmental advocacy
▪ Indigenous environmental network
• Causes
o clear cutting, herbicides, dams, oil and gas exploration
• Mission
o Protect and restore harmony of life through traditional
values
▪ Sierra club BC
• Protet ad presere BC’s atural ilderess ad ildlife
▪ Rachel Carson
• Author of silent spring
o Mother of the environmental movement
▪ Using poisonous chemicals to kill insects has
consequences
▪ Al Gore
• Former US vice president
o Earth in Balance: Ecology and Human Spirit
▪ Global warming has consequences
o An Inconvenient Truth
o The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change
▪ Be proactive
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Document Summary
Impact: floods, droughts, air pollution, hurricanes, rising food prices. Increasing allergenic pollens and fungal spores: protecting the planet. 30 days in a row: andrew weaver, climatologist, earth systems climate model, scientific assessments for intergovernmental panel on climate change, politics. Impact: depends on, pollutant concentration, length pollutant is in the environment, pollutant"s (cid:272)he(cid:373)i(cid:272)al (cid:374)ature, effect types, acute, severe. Include: respiratory disease, chronic bronchitis, reduced breathing capacity, emphysema, heart disease, cancer, weakened immunity, death, especially, elderly, people with asthma or heart disease, sources, carbon monoxide. In food: clearing the air, smog, combination of smoke and fog, components, chemical vapours. Industrial and commercial pollutants: volatile organic compounds, carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, sulfur oxides, particulates, sources, motor vehicles. Inflated tires and tuned engine: avoid idling, collect fluids that drain from car. Invisible hazards: 2 fields, electric, magnetic together, electromagnetic fields, source, video display terminals, reproductive problems, miscarriages, low birth weights, cataracts, microwaves, cancer, cellular phones, slow growing tumors, brain cancer, glioma, other environmental issues.
