ENVST 3280 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Hydrosphere, Lithosphere, Natural Resources Defense Council
31 Aug 2017
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Envst 3620 - notes from book - ecology intro. Environmental awareness: basic scientific understanding of physical and biological entities, relationships, and context that actually enable us to live and thrive, acknowledges two transcending transactions have maintained life, 1. Thermodynamic beneficence of perpetually flowing solar energy: 2. On-earth cycling of materials that permits continual birth and renewal: recognizes our intimate connection to relatively stable conditions: Ecological consciousness: expands our knowledge of our role as humans - all species are connected, we are related to every living being. Global problems: solved by local actions. Solved by grassroots - where the problems started. Fred montague: global problems stem from small destructive activities: cars, electricity, food industry . Collectively all the small communities that change affect the global environment. Ecology: the study of the relationships between living things and their environment. We identify in many ways (race, gender, culture) but rarely by our ecological role.
