This document discusses how human activity impacts the environment. It focuses on how human development and use of resources has changed views of nature from something beautiful to something being destroyed. Research looks at how concepts of beauty and cleanliness relating to the environment have changed over time. Results show acceleration of deforestation and rising carbon dioxide levels due to fossil fuel use. Artwork depicts negative effects of industrial pollution through images like dead animals and chopped down trees. The conclusion is that human progress for personal benefit has altered the view of nature from art to symbols of destruction.

1. Humans in the Environment
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2. Introduction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cXntJFWv5U

3. Moral of the story
UNLESS someone like you
cares a whole awful lot,
nothing is going to get better.
It’s not.
- Dr. Seuss

4. Research Focus
 Focus: How people are perceived in the environment
 Shallow Culture
 Visual arts
 Deep Culture
 Concept of beauty
 Relationship to animals
 Concept of cleanliness
 Concept of past and future

5. Research Questions
 How does our concept of beauty in the environment
change as human society developments progress
through the environment?
 How has human involvement changed the
environment’s condition from the past, and if this
continues, where will it be in the future?

6. Research thesis
 We view the environment as art. But when people
come into the environment and use its recourses for
their benefit, it is viewed as destruction.

7. Research Results
 “The world’s rain forests
could completely vanish in
a hundred years at the
current rate of
deforestation.” (Modern-
Day Plague)
 “Forests are cut down for
many reasons, but most of
them are related to money
or to people’s need to
provide for their families.”
(Modern-Day Plague)

8. More Results
 “In the past 150 years, various
activities have pumped enough
carbon dioxide into the
atmosphere to raise its levels
higher than they have been for
hundreds of thousands of
years.” (Air Pollution)
 “Many fossil fuel power plants,
boilers, and cement plants treat
our skies like sewers.” (Bailey)

9. More Results
 “Containing contaminants
ranging from birth control
pills and sunscreen to
pesticides and petroleum, our
planet's lakes, rivers, and
streams are often a chemical
cocktail.”(What's In The
Water)
 “70 percent of industrial
wastes are dumped untreated
into waters, polluting the
usable water supply.”
(What's In The Water)

10. Art piece
 This piece of art shows several aspects of how the
aftermath of production in society is viewed.
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12. Art Analysis
 City giving off smog
 Chopped down trees
 Yellow sky
 Dead animal
 Sad women in the middle
 Lots of reds and browns
 Save the earth

13. Conclusion
 People’s attempt to progress and innovate society
for their own personal benefit change our view of
natural recourses from beautiful works of art, to
symbols of destruction.

14. Work Cited
 "Modern-Day Plague." Deforestation. National Geographic, n.d. Web. 6 Apr 2014.
<http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-
warming/deforestation-overview/
 "Air Pollution." Environment. National Geographic, n.d. Web. 6 Apr 2014.
<http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warming/pollution-
overview/
 Bailey, Diane. "Gasping for Air." Environmental Issues. Natural Resources Defense
Council, 20 7 2011. Web. 6 Apr 2014.
<http://www.nrdc.org/health/airpollutionhealthimpacts.asp>.
 "Find Out What's In The Water." Water Pollution. National Geographic, n.d. Web.
6 Apr 2014.
<http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/freshwater/pollution/