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The document discusses several issues related to climate change and human ignorance. It argues that climate change is already catastrophic and deserves more attention and action. It notes that while putting forward the message on climate change is complex, the selfishness of some negatively impacts others. The document calls for humans to live up to being called "wise" and shift from an ego-centric to more eco-centric lifestyle by reducing waste and consumption and adopting more sustainable practices.
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The key to green electronics is creating products that can be designed, manufactured and utilized in a sustainable manner without causing significant negative environmental, social and economic consequences. Over the last decade and more, leading companies across the world have started to embrace sustainability as a key operating goal, recognizing that such practices also provide them long term financial benefits. The topic of sustainability is introduced here through the lens of major global driving forces such as greenhouse gas emissions/climate change, pollution/contamination, restricted substances, energy consumption/efficiency, waste/recycling, conflict minerals, and supply chain transparency. Numerous industry, governmental, and non-governmental bodies have developed guidelines and requirements to drive sustainable practices throughout the global supply chain of the electronics industry. An overview of these requirements is provided along with a snapshot of how leading electronics and tech companies are adapting to them and driving sustainability into their product development process and manufacturing operations. Finally, the potential savings and benefits of sustainability practices are discussed, along with implementation challenges & recommendations.
ENV 107 - Lecture 3
The document discusses several topics related to the environment:
1. The Gaia hypothesis proposes that life influences the environment to maintain conditions suitable for life, such as algae affecting climate through carbon dioxide and rainfall. However, few scientists accept that life deliberately controls the environment.
2. Urbanization is increasing as more people live in cities due to population and technology changes. This affects the environment through loss of habitats and increase in paved areas. By 2025, an estimated 67% of people will live in urban areas.
3. Deciding how to address environmental problems involves both scientific knowledge and values like the ecological, aesthetic, and moral value of the environment. These values influence differing views on issues like coal power
Green team political party
The document discusses the political party Green Team and their philosophy of ecocentrism, which is a nature-centered view of the environment that emphasizes minimal disturbance of natural processes and sustainability for the whole Earth. Ecocentrism is important because it focuses on the relationship between humans and the non-human world. People can become more ecocentric by being self-reliant, engaging in local community actions, and reducing their environmental impact through consuming less and decreasing resource use. The advantages of changing to a more ecocentric philosophy include avoiding natural disasters and ensuring resources are available for future generations.
Cornell Trieste CLEWS modelling October 2013
This document discusses the Earth system science perspective and the concept of planetary boundaries. It notes that earth system science research from the 1980s onward established that the Earth functions as a single system with interacting physical, chemical, biological and human components. The document also summarizes the key findings of the planetary boundaries framework, which proposes nine planetary boundaries related to human pressures like climate change, biodiversity loss and chemical pollution. It acknowledges that determining these boundaries involves assumptions and uncertainties due to the complexity of the Earth system and interactions between different scales.
Dipak gyawali
1. The document discusses several perspectives on addressing climate change from various publications. It outlines 10 suggestions for policymakers from the book "Human Choice and Climate Change" including taking a holistic view and recognizing both environmental and institutional limits.
2. It also summarizes key points from other publications. One argues international climate mechanisms are cumbersome and insufficient. Another notes we disagree on climate change because we worry about different things. A third discusses defining climate change as a "wicked problem" with many potential solutions.
3. The document advocates for a pluralistic approach incorporating hierarchical, individualistic, and egalitarian forms of governance when addressing climate change. It promotes "many 10% solutions" rather than one single solution
Green team political party
The document discusses the political party Green Team and their philosophy of ecocentrism, which is a nature-centered view of the environment that emphasizes minimal disturbance of natural processes and sustainability for the whole Earth. Ecocentrism is important because it focuses on the relationship between humans and the non-human world. People need to become more ecocentric to avoid ecological disasters and preserve the future of humankind. This can be done through becoming self-reliant, engaging in local community actions, and reducing environmental impact and resource use. The advantages of changing to a more ecocentric philosophy include avoiding natural disasters and ensuring resources are available for future generations.
All around the world, every country, city and nation have the same.docx
All around the world, every country, city and nation have the same recurring problem of waste. The main problem with our way of taking care of the waste we create is that we do not use that same waste and recycle it. The reason for this is that people are not being taught about waste disposal correctly. There are many plastic and metals that we throw away that can be recycled but many places, which are responsible for the recycling, don’t take them because there isn’t enough workers to do so. Futhermore waste like apple cores, banana peels all can be recycled and used as fertilizers or a way to create energy known as methane gas, however not enough recycling places do so. The biggest problem, however is that we live in a wasteful time. The idea that we just throw away our things or used products without being responsible for it is not good. We need to be using more recyclable objects and each person is charged on how much they throw away, rather than a flat rate for everyone. With all this waste earth is dying. Animals are losing their homes turning them into landfills. Man and animals cannot live in a world where the waste is just being dumped away. Problems such as pollution, global warming and other will make it harder and harder for us to live. That problem is that people out there don’t care enough to do something about it as they don’t have the knowledge to what this can lead to. I believe more education about waste should be taught and what the damages of poulltion can do to our earth. We see this today with temperatures rising, causing animals not being able to live as these temperatures destroy their habitats. In Cities like los angeles the air is polluted to a point where you can literally see the smog and such over the city. Something has to be done before its too late.
We have the ability to do something about this. And change our enoviroment before its too late and doesn’t just end up being a waste. In years time if we don’t do something about this the problem will be bigger and bigger to the point where we can no longer live on this earth. If we keep "air" pollution up for another 1000 years, we will be sufficated by carbon monoxide. If we keep "water" pollution up, we will die of thirst. If we keep "land" pollution up, we will be buried by our own waste.
Workshop Three Post-Reading Questions
1. Choose one question listed in the handout from each chapter.
2. Write a short essay to answer each question you selected. The essays are to be double spaced and approximately a half to a full page in length each. Many of the questions contain several parts; make sure that you have answered all parts of the question, as well as done any drawings requested.
Chapter 8: The Human Population (Environmental Science)
1. What are the environmental and social consequences of rapid population growth in rural developing areas? In urban developing areas?
2. Describe the negative and positive consequences of affluence on the environment.
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Lec_1.pptx
This document provides an introduction to an Environmental Engineering course. It outlines the instructor's qualifications and contact information. It then describes the course overview including title, credit hours, topics to be covered like water treatment processes, wastewater treatment, and environmental impact assessment. Finally, it outlines the assessment criteria including assignments, quizzes, exams and their weightages. The key objectives of the course are to develop understanding of human-environment interactions and impacts, analyze water and wastewater treatment designs, and conduct lab experiments to evaluate water quality parameters.
Using Learning Processes to Promote Change for SD final
This document discusses promoting change for sustainable development. It begins by reviewing the challenge of sustainable development and how current responses are inadequate. It then maps contextual factors that limit change, including individual subjective factors like emotions and perceptions of agency, and collective objective factors like economic and technological lock-in. The document proposes a model for change with three necessary conditions: awareness, agency (the ability to find a meaningful response), and association with others. Action and reflection is identified as a key process for developing these conditions and engaging with contextual factors to promote change for sustainable development.
Showcasing sustainability at Otago Polytechnic
Presentation showcasing what is already great in Education for Sustainability at Otago Polytechnic. For workshop for Staff Professional Development day, 30th June 2011. Presenters Niki Bould, Bridie Lonie, Andy Thompson, Morag MacAuley, Samuel Mann
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This document introduces environmental sociology as the study of the relationship between societies and their natural environments. It discusses the three dimensions of environmental sociology: how consumption, the economy, technology, and population affect environmental conditions (material); how patterns of thought and beliefs affect environmental conditions (ideal); and what can be done to study and ameliorate environmental problems (practical). The first chapter will cover sustainability issues like energy, climate change, and pollution, as well as environmental justice.
Design for global climate change by Shangning Wang
This document provides an overview of research conducted around designing strategies to address global climate change through art and design. It includes sections on defining global climate change, identifying the key causes as greenhouse gas emissions and fossil fuel usage, feedback from interviews that found many people remain confused about climate change, and strategies for designers to incorporate circular economy and sustainable practices into their work to help mitigate climate change impacts. The document explores how art and design can be used to raise awareness and influence attitudes around addressing the serious issue of global climate change.
Prof. Michael Raupach "Synthesis in science and society" ACEAS Grand 2014 part A
1. The document discusses synthesis in science, which involves seeing the big picture by accounting for interactions between system elements and defining system boundaries.
2. Examples of synthesis provided include linking climate change science to the Anthropocene era and examining the tragedy of the commons concept across disciplines.
3. The grand challenge of synthesis is developing a unified perspective on nature and humanity as a single, interacting Earth system.
Almuayli1Name Course WCTDate 2102015Critical Essay on .docx
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Critical Essay on Mass Extinction
From all indications, animal species are in their final stages of death. Just like a human body when in its final stages of dehydration, the body suffers, shrinking, the youthful skin gets wrinkles and sag, the tongue cracks and starts to swell. Also, into orbit the eyes recede, the muscles seize and brain cells shrivel, the kidney becomes dysfunctional, and the volume of the blood starts to drop. When all these functions take place in the body, they interfere with the function of the body system until the whole system stops functioning thus pleading to death. Similarly, the animal species have been faced with various challenges affecting their living and survival modes thus causing a mass extinction. The main challenge is the reality that animal species are getting to a critical point where it will be hard to salvage them regardless of the precautions that might be taken.
Unexpected freezing, thunderstorms, and prolonged droughts are the constant occurrences that the world is regularly going through. These occurrences have an adverse impact on the animal species. Scientists have raised an alarm that species continually disappear at a background alarming rate whereby replacing the loss of new exotic species. However, as time is going by, the rate of extinction is increasing while us the rate of replacing is decreasing thus making the difference more visible. This is more so because, animals and human beings are interdependent, and they need each other for survival. When animal species continues to decrease, human life is affected as well.
With increased population across the globe, human activities continue to increase relatively as well. The 20th century has a made the most impact in terms of habitat degradation, overexploitation, agricultural monocultures, human-borne invasive species, human-induced climate-changes due to activities like cutting down trees and thickets to create space for infrastructure. Technology advancement, globalization and civilization of the human species, have also contributed (Lehmann, Julia, Aman, and Robin, 2015). This is because new ideas are being realized on how species can be used for economic resources and replace them with exotic ones that can bear with the current climatic conditions. All these factors are heading the world to a no salvage situation just like Kolbert, Elizabeth (2015); it is in deed the sixth extinction because another current living style has no place for animal species that have already threatened to be on the verge of varnishing.
Besides scientists arguments about mass extinction, personally have witnessed numerous poaching cases in different parts of the world. However, in poaching, elephants and rhino’s are the endangered species as poachers are only interested in their husks. As a result, despite the control measures that different nations of the world continues to put in place to control poaching, the num.
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Catastrophic Human Ignorance - KMHH
- 1. Catastrophic human ignorance Isn’t climate change catastrophic enough? 27. October 2012 MSc. REBE – Module 1.1 Kari-Marie H. Holmstrøm 1 (Conin, 2005)
- 2. Content •Human selfishness and the EGO vs ECO way of living •Consequences of global warming and climate change •The climate change message – sugarcoated or exaggerated? •Responsibility and action – who’s job is it? •Conclusion and picturing the facts •References 27. October 2012 MSc. REBE – Module 1.1 Kari-Marie H. Holmstrøm 2
- 3. 27. October 2012 MSc. REBE – Module 1.1 Kari-Marie H. Holmstrøm 3 (FUTURITY, 2011)
- 4. Homo Sapiens («Wise human») - The ONE species to rule them all! 27. October 2012 MSc. REBE – Module 1.1 Kari-Marie H. Holmstrøm 4
- 5. Species extinction Desperation Extreme weather Disease (Skylab Culture, 2012) Resource scarcity 27. October 2012 MSc. REBE – Module 1.1 Kari-Marie H. Holmstrøm 5 Fresh air Clean water Biodiversity Stability WE the PEOPLE Well-being Sustainability Beauty Peace Death War Destruction
- 6. (Twentieth Century Fox, 2004) - Isn’t mere climate change serious enough to be worthy of attention? 27. October 2012 MSc. REBE – Module 1.1 Kari-Marie H. Holmstrøm 6
- 7. …and then there’s the IGNORANCE! Ignorance is bliss, isn’t that what they say?! (FCIT, 2012) 27. October 2012 MSc. REBE – Module 1.1 Kari-Marie H. Holmstrøm 7
- 8. (QuotationsBook, no date). 27. October 2012 MSc. REBE – Module 1.1 Kari-Marie H. Holmstrøm 8
- 9. “A reasonable society should be willing to undertake fairly significant precautions to avoid catastrophic events. Over the past few decades, however, social and cognitive psychologists studying human judgment and choice have learned that reasonable people sometimes fail to make reasonable choices.” (Rachlinski, 2000, Siwanowicz, 2011). 27. October 2012 MSc. REBE – Module 1.1 Kari-Marie H. Holmstrøm 9
- 10. (PolitiComments, no date). 27. October 2012 MSc. REBE – Module 1.1 Kari-Marie H. Holmstrøm 10
- 11. What anybody CAN do: Recycle ) (Care2, 2008) 27. October 2012 MSc. REBE – Module 1.1 Kari-Marie H. Holmstrøm 11
- 12. Reduce… Water Fuel Paper Electricity Plastic bags, bottles… Chemicals Materialism Waste Meat consumption Consumption in general…. (DMSTAGRAM, no date). 27. October 2012 MSc. REBE – Module 1.1 Kari-Marie H. Holmstrøm 12
- 13. Planet Earth is in serious trouble! The selfishness of some is the misery of others! The species of the Earth are many, but more and more become endangered every year! Climate change is a complex issue, and so is putting the message constructively forward! Climate change is catastrophic enough as it is, and deserve more attention and ACTION! We need to start living up to the WISE humans we named ourself to be! We need to shift from an EGO, to a more ECO, lifestyle! Conclusion 27. October 2012 MSc. REBE – Module 1.1 Kari-Marie H. Holmstrøm 13
- 14. Picturing the facts with some screenshots: - Catastrophic or not, feel free to get affected! 27. October 2012 MSc. REBE – Module 1.1 Kari-Marie H. Holmstrøm 14
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- 36. Questions? 27. October 2012 MSc. REBE – Module 1.1 Kari-Marie H. Holmstrøm