ENVS 1100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Environmental Ethics, Environmental Quality, Resource Consumption

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Living in an exponential age: human ecological footprint continues to spread exponentially, fossil fuels, clearing forests, lead to climate change. Key roles: an environmental issue: population growth, resource use and waste, poverty, loss of biological diversity, global climate change. Environmental science: study on how the earth works, how we interact with the earth and how to deal with environmental problems, everything that affects a living organism. Ecology: relationship between living organisms and their environment. Environmental science: uses info from physical and social sciences to learn how the earth works, how we interact with the earth and how to deal with environmental problems, combining ideas from the natural and cultural world. Life depends on: energy from the sun (solar capital, earth"s resources and ecological services (natural capital) Carrying capacity: maximum number of organisms that can sustain in a given environment. Sustainability: the ability of a system to survive for an extended period of time.

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