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The Lorax – Protector of the Trees• The Lorax is a fictional story
about a man whose activities abused the environment and about what he learned from the experience.
• As our ecological footprints grow, we are depleting and degrading more of the earth’s natural capital.
We Are Living Unsustainably
• Environmental degradation: wasting, depleting, and degrading the earth’s natural capital– Happening at an accelerating rate– Also called natural capital degradation
Human Population
• The current human population is 6.8 billion.
• Over a million additional people is added to the Earth every 5 days.
Resource Depletion
• As the human population grows, the resources necessary for our survival become increasingly depleted.
• Some natural resources such as coal, oil and uranium are finite and cannot be renewed or reused.
• Other natural resources like aluminum or copper, also exist in finite amounts but can be recycled.
Resource Depletion
• Development- improvement in human well-being through economic advancement. As economies develop, resource consumption also increases.
Environmental Science Offers Important Insights Into Our World and how We
Influence It