This document discusses several environmental problems from a sociological perspective. It addresses how environmental problems are also social problems that threaten social organization and thought. It discusses how social inequality both causes and exacerbates issues like pollution, consumption, and population growth. The document also outlines challenges around sustainability and justice. It provides examples of issues like particulate pollution, acid rain, threats to land and water, and discusses how minority groups tend to face greater environmental risks and harms.

1. Environmental Problems and
society
Presented by:
Muhammad Faizan Jamil

2. Environmental sociology is the study of
community in the largest possible
sense.

3. Environmental problems as social
problems
Environmental problems are not just problems of
Technology, Industry, Ecology and Biology,
Environmental problems are also social problems.
Environmental problems are also for society that
threaten our existing patterns of social organization
and social thought.

4. Social Dis-organization Theory
The Anomie Situations in the society

5. Social in In-equality and our Environment
Social inequality is both a product and a
producer of global warming, pollution, over-
consumption, resource depletion, habitat loss,
risky technology, and rapid population growth.

6. • The Material: How consumption, the
economy, technology, development,
population, and the health of our bodies
shape our environmental conditions.
• The Ideal: How culture, ideology, moral
values, risk, and social experience influence
the way we think about and act toward the
environment.
• The Practical: How we can bring about a more
ecological society, taking the relations of the
material and the ideal into account.

7. The challenge of Sustainability, Justice and
Beauty of Ecology
• How long can we keep doing what we’re doing?
• How much longer can we keep doing what we’re
doing with regard to energy?
• What to do?

9. Get More Approach
About 33 percent of the world’s energy supply
comes from oil, the most of any source. Coal
and peat are next at a combined 27 percent,
followed by gas at 21 percent. Six percent is
nuclear energy and 2 percent is hydropower.
we’re up to 81 percent of our energy coming
from fossil carbon.

13. Get into less Damaging Natural
Recourses
in 2009, Spain generated 14.3 percent of its
electricity with wind power.
Worldwide, 38 gigawatts of new wind turbines
went up in 2009 alone.

14. Global Warming

18. Particulates and acid rain

19. Particulates and acid rain
• Big cities and their surrounding face the
hazard of fine particulates in the air.
• These particulates much smaller in size.
• Much smaller than the diameter of human
hair.
• Fine particulates increase heart attack.
• Decrease lung capacity.
• In Amerca 15% people died before premature.

20. • According to 2006 report, 160,000 americans
die premature every year due to fine
particulates.
• Acid rain also another big issue.
• Due to acid rain decline in the population of
some fish, frogs, plant stress and dieback in
many forest.
• Acid rain direct damage the plant tissue.

21. Causes of particulates and acid rain
• Dust mainly released because of poor
combination in cars, trucks, power plants,
wood stove and outdoor burning.
• Fossil fuels.
• Coal used for electric generation.

22. Threats to land and water
• Soil erosion is only one of many serious
threats to farmland.
• Gain in crop production was due to irrigation.
• Irrigation can also salinize soil.
• Irrigation can also waterlog poorly drained
soil.
• Much of the freshwater that remain is badly
polluted.

23. Environmental justice.
Environmental justice for all.

24. Who gets the bads?
• Both race and social class were significant
factors.
• Minority students tend to be located in areas
with high levels of airborne toxics.
• People of color face much higher odds that
their homes are located near a toxic chemical
plant.