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The document discusses various environmental issues related to overconsumption of natural resources and calls for individuals to consume with care. It notes that while the environment is often defined based on human needs, we must recognize our interdependence with the planet. It highlights issues like increasing waste of water, energy, and food on a global scale. The document advocates addressing these challenges by raising awareness of our environmental impacts and promoting more sustainable consumption among the world's 7 billion people through small individual actions and celebrations like World Environment Day.
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- 1. CONSUME WITH CARE Seven BillionDreams, One Planet, Consume with Care.
- 2. ENVIRONMENT It is thecollection 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.
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- 5. • All otheranimals live in a place where they can • But we human, have changed the environment as we move on • The main reason for the problem
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- 7. Why we haveto 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 caremeans… • 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. "Although individual decisions may seem small in the face of global threats and trends, when billions of people join forces in common purpose, we can make a tremendous difference.” - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon
- 13. Water • Water theElixir of Life – Sir.C.V.Raman • The most exploited natural resource • The distribution is not even throughout globe
- 14. WATER • Even thoughhouseholds 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.
- 15. • Man ispolluting 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 technologicaladvances that have promoted energy efficiency gains, energy use in OECD countries will continue to grow another 35% by 2020. • 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.
- 17. • Households consume29% 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 billiontonnes 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 consumptionadversely 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 cando? • 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 leavinga 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
- 23. நான் ஒரு ஆளாஎன்ன ெசெய்யறது ? • செிற துளி ெபரு ெவளளம் • உலகின் எலலா மகததான பயணஙகளம் மதல் அடயிேலேய ெதாடஙககின்றன
- 24. வஙகாாி மூட்டா மாததய் •Part of green belt movement • In Kenya, ladies were asked to plant trees, for each tree one dollar was given • This created lush greenery in many places. • She was instrumental in plating more than one crore trees • Awarded Nobel prize for Peace
- 25. திமமககா • With herhusband Chikkanna they have planted more than one lakh trees in the Hulikal village Karnataka • This took them almost 25 years • Even after demise of her husband she continues the work
- 26. –ராேஜநதர செிங் நீர் மனிதன் •From 1985, over the years he built water conservation structures to collect rainwater for the dry seasons, has brought water back to over 1,000 villages • Revived five rivers in Rajasthan, Arvari, Ruparel, Sarsa, Bhagani and Jahajwali.
- 27. …இறதியாக . காகைக கருவிஎஙகள் ஜாதி நீளகடலம் மைலயம் எஙகள் கட்டம் ேநாககம் திைசெெயலலாம் நாமன்றி ேவறிலைல ேநாகக ேநாககக் களியாட்டம் - பாரதியார்