ENV 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Mathis Wackernagel, Environmental Science, Ecological Footprint
Document Summary
Chapter 1: science and sustainability: an introduction to environmental science. Environment all the living and nonliving things around us: people often use it to mean a nonhuman or natural world apart from human society. Environmental science explores our interactions with the world. Essential to understand the environment around us because we modify it. Environmental science scientific study of how the natural world works, how our environment affects us, and how we affect our environment: studying issues that are most central to our world and its future. Ecosystem services the goods that nature produces on which we depend on: we degrade these services when we destroy habitats and generate pollution. Population has grown over 7 billion people. Agricultural revolution transition from hunter-gatherer lifestyle to an agricultural way of life. Fossil fuels nonrenewable energy sources, like coal, oil, and natural gas. Using resources 50% faster than they are being replenished: americans consume way too much.
