| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Environmental Science | highly inter disciplinary |
| Science | the effort of trying to understand the world and how it works |
| Thinkin about ES | Adds element of context and empathy to scientific study |
| Why ES matters | Climate change, extinctions, consumption of resources, loss of ecosystems |
| World population | 6.6 billion growing by 85 million anually |
| Reasons for ES issues | growing world population, modern technology, consumption |
| Conservation | management within given social and economic constraints |
| Preservation | protects species or landscapes without reference to natural change in living systems or to human requirements |
| Pragmatic/utilitarian conservation | environmental resources should be preserved for our needs |
| Pragmatic/utilitarian conservation | TR, Pinchot |
| Pinchot | US Forest Service, valued timber and jobs |
| TR | 1st President to establish national forests, parks, and wildlife refuges |
| Moral and aesthetic- biocentric | preservation philosophy proposed that all organisms (not just man) have the right to exist and pursue their own interests |
| Moral and aesthetic- biocentric | Muir, Leopold |
| Muir | Sierra Club, Advocate of National Park Service |
| Yosemite | first national park |
| Modern environmentalism | Research paired with activism fueled the movement |
| Modern environmentalism | Milestone was 1970, first national Earth Day |
| Environmentalism | social movement that often draws upon environmental science in an attempt to protect natural world |
| Modern environmentalism | Rachel Carson |
| Rachel Carson | Her work Silent Spring bridged science and advocacy |
| Photos of Earth | created the concept of earth as a global village |
| global environmentalism | realization that we all share a common environment at the global scale |
| Solutions to pressing environmental problems | technological fix and pagmatic realism |
| Promethean solution | faith that human ingenuity and new technology will solve all problems |
| Biosphere 1 and 2 | failed to duplicate earth's life support systems |
| Pragmatic realism | addressing inequities while striving for sustainability |
| North South Divide | wealthiest countries tend to be north of the equator and poorer ones to the south |
| acute poverty | one fifth of the world |
| ecological footprint | amount of land needed to produce the resources used |
| Sustainable Development | meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs |
| Sustainable Development | balancing social, economic, and ecological factors in everyday life |
Combine with other sets
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