The document discusses environmental issues stemming from human impact, including pollution of air, water, and land due to industrialization and modernization. It outlines major environmental laws in the Philippines, the United Nations Millennium Development Goals aimed at ensuring environmental sustainability, and emphasizes the urgency of addressing global warming and resource depletion. The text concludes with a call for collective action toward preserving the environment for future generations.

1. ENVIRONMENTAL
PROBLEMS

3. • Creation Story (Faith)
• Day 1 – Light and darkness
• Day 2 – Sky
• Day 3 – Sea and earth’s vegetation
• Day 4 – Moon and stars
• Day 5 – Animals creatures
• Day 6 – Man
• Scientific Explanation
• Molten earth, shallow seas, bacteria

4. Man cultivated the earth and used only
the things he needed to survive…
But later, he learned
that he can get more
than what he
needs….

5. Human Impact to Earth
Industrialization Commercialization
Modernization of Life
World Population : 6.93 Billion (2010,estimated)

6. Environmental pollution
 The addition to the natural
environment of any substance
or energy form at a rate that
results in higher than natural
concentration of that substance.

7. pollution
 The undesirable change in the
physical, chemical or biological
characteristics of an ecosystem that
injures or kills living organisms and
makes the environment unfit.
pollutANT
 Are substances that cause pollution.
They may cause primary damage with
direct identifiable impacts or secondary
damage in the form of minor
disturbance to nature balance.

8. AIR
pollution
water
pollution
land
pollution

9. AIR pollution
 The physical and chemical alteration
of the properties of air which is harmful
to human health, vegetation and
animals.
 Outdoor Pollution – pollution derived from
the mixture or collection of additional loads
of chemical produced by natural events and
human activities.
Fossil fuel combustion, photochemical smog,
volcanic eruptions, forest fire, radioactivity

10.  Indoor Pollution – pollution derived from
the accumulation or build up of chemicals,
suspended particulate matter and volatile
organic compounds inside infrastructures
that are harmful to health.
Aerosol spray, chlorine treated water, air
freshener crystals, tobacco and cigarettes,
carpets and plastic products, floor tiles
and pipe insulation, paint and thinners,
unvented gas and kerosene stoves, dry
cleaning fluids

11. WATER pollution
 The physical or chemical
change in the surface
water or ground water
that can adversely affect
living organisms.

12. WATER pollution
POINT SOURCE : A Source that discharges
pollutants or any discharge such as waste water
through pipes, ditches and sewers into bodies of
water at specific location.
NON - POINT SOURCE : One of many widely
scattered sources that discharge pollutants over
a large area such as run-offs into surface water,
construction area, parking lots, roadways.

13. Common types of water
pollutants
 Disease causing organisms
 Oxygen demanding wastes
 Water-soluble inorganic chemicals
 Organic Chemicals
 Radioactive substances
 Sediments of suspended water

14. Water related pROBLEMS
 EUTROPHICATION
 THERMAL POLLUTION
 OIL SPILL
 GARBAGE DISPOSAL
 RED TIDE

15. land pollution
 The presence in land of any
solid waste in such quantity
would be injurious to human
health or welfare or plant,
animal, human life and
property.

16. TYPES OF SOLID WASTE
Municipal Solid Waste: Includes garbage,
rubbish ashes, bulky discarded items, animal
carcass, demolition wastes.
Agricultural Solid Waste: Includes livestock, post
harvest crop residues, plant trimmings,
damaged grains as animal feeds
Litter: Wrappers, beer cans, waste paper, plastic
bags and cups, bottles, Styrofoam, diapers, tin
cans.

17. ENVIRONMENTAL
JURISPRUDENCE

18. The Millennium Development Goals
A goal set by the United Nations
that will address the leading
problems affecting a large portion
of the world today.

19. The Millennium Development Goals
The Eight (8) Goals
1. Eradicate Poverty and Hunger
2. Achieve universal Primary Education
3. Promote Gender Equality and empower
women
4. Reduce Child Mortality
5. Improve Maternal Health
6. Combat HIV/AIDS; Malaria, and other
Diseases
7. Ensure Environmental sustainability
8. Develop a Global Partnership for
development

20. The Millennium Development Goals
GOAL 7: ENSURE
ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
Target A– Integrate the principles of
sustainable development into country
policies and programs and reverse the loss
of environmental resources.

21. The Millennium Development Goals
Target B – Halve, by 2015, the
proportion of people without sustainable
access to drinking water
Target C – By 2020, to have achieved
a significant improvement in the lives of at
least 100 million slum dwellers.

22. Laws that Govern Environmental
Protection in the Philippines.
Presidential Decree 1151
Known as Philippine
Environmental Policy that is known
to create, develop and improve
conditions promoting productive
harmony between man and nature;
fulfill social and economical
requirements for Filipinos; ensure
attainment of environmental

23. Republic Act No. 3571
An Act prohibiting the
cutting, destroying or
injuring or planted or
growing trees or of flowering
plants and shrubs or plants
of scenic value along public
roads, plazas, school
premises or in any public
ground.

24. Presidential Decree No. 221
Series of 87
Prescribing the interim
procedures in the processing
and approval of applications
for the exploitation,
development and utilization
of minerals.

25. Presidential Decree No. 1198
Requiring all individuals,
partnership or corporation
engaged in exploration,
development and exploitation
of all natural resources in
the construction of
infrastructure or projects to
restore or rehabilitate to
their original condition.

26. Presidential Decree No. 1152
Chapter 3 Section 45
Solid wastes disposal shall
be by sanitary landfill,
incineration, composting and
other methods as may be
approved by competent
government authority.

27. Presidential Decree No. 1152
Chapter 5 Section 49
The dumping, disposal of
solid wastes into the sea and
any body of water in the
Philippines, including
shorelines and riverbanks
where these wastes are likely
to be washed, is prohibited.

28. Presidential Decree No. 1152
Chapter 4 Section 34
The control of soil erosion
on the banks or rivers,
shores, lakes and the control
of flooding in and from
rivers and lakes.

29. Presidential Decree No. 1219
Providing for the
exploration, exploitation,
utilization and conservation
of coral resources.
Republic Act No. 6969
Toxic Substances and
Hazardous and Nuclear
Waste Control of 1990.

30. WORLD ENVIRONMENT REPORT
(Guardian.uk.com / United Nations Assessment
/ National Geographic News

31.  Because of human demand for food, fresh
water, timber, fiber and fuel, more land has
been claimed for agriculture in the last 60 years
than in the 18th and 19th centuries combined.
 An estimated 24 % of the earth’s land
surface is cultivated

32.  Water withdrawals from lakes and rivers has
doubled in the last 40 years. Humans now use
between 40% and 50% of all available
freshwater running off the land.

33.  At least a quarter of all fish stocks are over
harvested. In some areas, the catch is now less
than a hundredth of that before industrial
fishing.

34.  Since 1980, about 35% of mangroves have
been lost, 20% of the world's coral reefs have
been destroyed and another 20% badly
degraded.

35.  Deforestation and other changes could
increase the risks of malaria and cholera, and
open the way for new and so far unknown
disease to emerge.

36.  An estimated 90% of the total weight of the
ocean's large predators - tuna, swordfish and
sharks - has disappeared in recent years.
 An estimated 12% of bird species, 25% of
mammals and more than 30% of all amphibians
are threatened with extinction within the next
century.

37. GLOBAL WARMING and OZONE LAYER DEPLETION
(Carbon Dioxide and Chlorofluorocarbons)
 The rate of global warming is increasing. The
20th century's last two decades were the
hottest in 400 years.
 United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change (IPCC) reports that 11 of the
past 12 years are among the dozen warmest
since 1850.

38. • Arctic ice is rapidly disappearing, and the region
may have its first completely ice-free summer
by 20140 or earlier.
• Polar bears and indigenous cultures are
already suffering from the sea-ice loss.
• Glaciers and mountain snows are rapidly
melting – for example, the Montana Glacier
national Par, now has only 27 glaciers, versus
150 in 1910.

39. The scientists warn. "In many cases, it is literally
a matter of living on borrowed time. By using up
supplies of our resources we are depleting
assets at the expense of our children."
If all these worsen… what will
our future be? How will the
future generations survive?

40. Is it really possible for the humanity to
be one in achieving the goal of
reviving mother earth?
“You may say I’m a dreamer.. But I’m
not the only one…I hope someday you
will join us and the world will live as
one…Imagine all the people… living
life in peace…sharing all the world…”

41. Remember:
… If you wanna make the world a better
place take a look at yourself and make a
CHANGE… ( Michael Jackson )