This document discusses the importance of consuming natural resources carefully due to rising global population and limited planetary resources. It notes that while individual actions may seem small, collective changes can make a big difference. The document outlines key issues with water, energy, food consumption and encourages actions like reducing waste, using public transport, and planting trees to consume more sustainably. On World Environment Day, everyone is urged to care for the Earth and become agents of change.

1. CONSUME WITH
CARE
Seven Billion Dreams,
One Planet,
Consume with Care.

2. ENVIRONMENT
It is the collection of the following factors
• Physical
• Chemical
• Biological
• Economical
• Political
• Social

3. How we see? –May be wrong?
• Normally environment is
defined as the things
surrounding us.
• This makes the human as
center
Anthropocentric view
• The actual problem lies here
• We never realize what is our
part.

4. Universe
Earth
B iodiversity
Biomes
My Country
Nat.Environmnet
Local Biodiversity
Me

5. • All other animals live in a place
where they can
• But we human, have changed the
environment as we move on
• The main reason for the problem

6. CURRENT ISSUES

7. Why we have to take care ?
“Nature provides enough to satisfy every
man's needs, but not every man's greed.”
- Mahatma Gandhi
– Since we get everything from the natural
environment, at least for that sake we have
to protect it

8. WORLD ENVIORNMENT DAY
• World Environment Day (WED) is the
United Nations’ principal vehicle for
encouraging worldwide awareness and
action for the environment.
• It also serves as the ‘people’s day’ for
doing something positive for the
environment, galvanizing individual actions
into a collective power that generates an
exponential positive impact on the planet.

9. "Seven Billion Dreams. One Planet. Consume with Care."
• The well-being of humanity, the environment, and
the functioning of the economy, ultimately depend
upon the responsible management of the planet’s
natural resources.
• People are consuming far more natural resources
than what the planet can sustainably provide.

10. • By 2050, if current consumption and
production patterns remain the same and
with a rising population expected to reach
9.6 billion, we will need three planets to
sustain our ways of living and consumption

11. Consuming with care means…
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Human prosperity need not cost the earth.
living within planetary boundaries to ensure a
healthy future where our dreams can be
realized.
Living sustainably is about doing more and
better with less.
It is about knowing that rising rates of natural
resource use and the environmental impacts
that occur are not a necessary by-product of
economic growth.

12. Every Action Counts
• WED is the opportunity for everyone to realize the
responsibility to care for the Earth and to become
agents of change.
"AltŁougŁ individual decisions may seem small in
tŁe face of global tŁreats and trends, wŁen
billions of people join forces in common purpose, we
can makea tremendous difference.”
- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon

13. Water
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Water the Elixir of
Life –
Sir.C.V.Raman
The most exploited
natural resource
The distribution is
not even throughout
globe

14. WATER
• Even though households are relatively low
consumers of water, population growth and
expanded water use have outweighed the
effect of water saving technology and
behavior.
• Less than 3% of the world’s water is fresh
(drinkable), of which 2.5% is frozen in the
Antarctica, Arctic and glaciers. Humanity must
therefore rely on 0.5% for all of man’s
ecosystem’s and fresh water needs.

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Man is polluting water faster than
nature can recycle and purify water in
rivers and lakes.
More than 1 billion people still do not
have access to fresh water.
Excessive use of water contributes to the
global water stress.
• Water is free from nature but the
infrastructure needed to deliver it is
expensive.

16. ENERGY
• Despite technological advances that have
promoted energy efficiency gains, energy use in
OECD countries will continue to grow another
35% by 2020.
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Commercial and residential energy use is the
second most rapidly growing area of global
energy use after transport.
A 32% increase in vehicle ownership is expected
by 2020. At the same time, motor vehicle
kilometres are projected to increase by 40% and
global air travel is projected to triple in the same
period.

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Households consume 29% of global energy and
consequently contribute to 21% of resultant CO2
emissions.
The cost of renewable energy is increasingly
competitive with that derived from fossil fuels.
One-fifth of the world’s final energy consumption
in 2013 was from renewables.
Globally, energy consumption grew most quickly
in the transport and service sectors, driven by
rising passenger travel and freight transport, and
a rapid expansion in the service economy

18. FOOD
• 1.3 billion tonnes of food is wasted every
year while almost 1 billion people go
undernourished and another 1 billion
hungry.
• Overconsumption of food is detrimental to
our health and the environment.
– 1.5 billion people globally are
overweight or obese.

19. – Land degradation, declining soil fertility,
unsustainable water use, overfishing and
marine environment degradation are all
lessening the ability of the natural resource
base to supply food.
– The food sector accounts for around 30%
of the world’s total energy consumption and
accounts for around 22% of total
Greenhouse Gas emissions.

20. • Increased consumption adversely affects food
security.
– Increase in food prices.
– Upsurge in production methods that use
more resource-intensive food products.
– Resource-intensive foods deplete the agro-
ecological resource base, affecting its
ability to produce plentiful food.

21. What I can do?
• Before consuming anything, think twice
whether it is necessary ?
• Use only judicious amounts of natural
resources
• Wherever possible reduce the use
• Avoid the wastage
• Completely avoid one time usage items

22. • Before leaving a room switch-off the fans
and lights
• Attend the pipe leaks immediately
• Do not waste food
• Avoid using plastic bags
• Use public transport systems
• Plant more number of trees and take care
of them