ES101 Chapter : ES101 Notes.docx
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2% a year): exponential growth is deceptive because at first it starts off slow, but quickly increases (usually doubling), there is concern that an exponential growth in human population, which increases the amount of impact on the environment, is beginning to create irreversible damage to farming, water supply, biodiversity, and economies all around the world. 5 key environmental issues (affected by exponential growth): population growth resource use and waste poverty loss of biological diversity global climate change: environment: is everything that affects a living organism, ecology: a biological science of study that looks at the relationship b/w living, environmental science: a type of study that uses both physical and social organisms and their environment. support systems for humans and other species. wind power, hydropower, and biomass (chemical energy). sciences to figure out how the earth works, how we interact with the earth, and how to deal with environmental problems.
