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Our environment is more then just our surroundings. Environment: more then water, air, land, it is the sum total of our surroundings. Includes earth"s biotic (living) and abiotic (nonliving things we interact with) components. Includes complex webs of scientific, ethical, political, economic, and social relationships and institutions that shape our daily lives. Continents, oceans, clouds, rivers, and ice caps. Animals, plants, forests, soils, and people occupying the landscape. Structures, urban centers, and living spaces humans have created. Humans exist within the environment and are apart of the interactions that characterize it. Humans share with other species a fundamental dependence on a healthy, functioning planet environmental science fundamental insight is that we are apart of the natural world, and our interactions with its other parts matter a greater deal. Need to properly defne the term environment arose when canada passed its first environmental legislation (1970) Also as public awareness of environmental issues grew.
