EESA10H3 Chapter 1: textbook reading chapter 1

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Human health and environment lecture 1 (textbook reading): The environmental crisis to around of the land"s surface is affected by humans, carbon dioxide humans are altering the earth"s atmosphere, geosphere, and biosphere concentration in the atmosphere has increased by 30% since the industrial. Decline of frogs around the world (even in isolated, pristine environments) The driving forces of the increasing environmental degradation/ transformation are: population growth & industrialization rate of industrialization has far outpaced the growth in population a. e. g. from 1950-1999, manufacturing increased 7 times and fossil fuels increased 4 times. Anthropocentric view: humans are the most important species www. notesolution. com. Health and the environment b/c: environmental changes pose challenge for traditional public health service. 4. change is increasingly interdisciplinary and requires collaboration over long periods w/ meteorologists, chemists, biologists, health scientist, etc. Endocrine disruption: a class of chemicals including pops that imitate or block the actions of hormones (like carcinogens, it is an environmental health outcome of concern)

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