STS Environmental Awareness

GROUP 10
Environmental
Awareness
Saving the Earth Starts with You
TOPIC OUTLINE
ISSUES TO TACKLE
Wildlife Conservation
Conservation Practices
Impacts of Environmental Change
Helping Environment
OUR COMMON GROUND
The Earth is what we all

have in common.
WENDELL BERRY
WHAT IS
ENVIRONMENTAL
AWARENESS?
BEING AWARE OF THE NATURAL
ENVIRONMENT AND MAKING CHOICES THAT
BENEFIT--RATHER THAN HURT--THE EARTH
AND TO UNDERSTAND THE FRAGILITY OF OUR
ENVIRONMENT AND THE IMPORTANCE OF ITS
PROTECTION.
ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT
The measure of human demands on Earth's
Resources
EFFECTS OF
ECOLOGICAL •Humans impact the physical environment due to
FOOTPRINT ecological footprint includes developing world resource

use and need for food, transport, energy use, and
agriculture.
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IMPACTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL
CHANGE
GLOBAL OCEAN HEALTH DEFORESTATION LOSS OF

WARMING ACIDIFICATION Affects social and Deforestation, clearance, BIODIVERSITY
Global warming is the long- Ocean acidification is caused environmental determinants clearcutting or clearing is the The extinction of species
term rise in the average by the uptake of carbon of health – clean air, safe removal of a forest or stand worldwide, and also the local
temperature of the Earth's dioxide from the atmosphere. drinking water, sufficient of trees from land which is reduction or loss of species in
climate system. It is a major food and secure shelter. then converted to a non-forest a certain habitat.
aspect of climate change, and use.
has been demonstrated by
direct temperature
measurements and by
measurements of various
effects of the warming. Group 10 Presentation
HABITAT LOSS
Due to destruction, fragmentation, or degradation of habitat—is the primary
THREATS TO threat to the survival of wildlife. When an ecosystem has been dramatically
changed by human activities—such as agriculture, oil and gas exploration,
commercial development, or water diversion it may no longer be able to
WILDLIFE AND provide the food, water, cover, and places to raise young that wildlife need to
survive.
ENVIRONMENT CLIMATE CHANGE

Climate change is caused by humans. Scientists have concluded that most of
the observed warming is very likely due to the burning of coal, oil, and gas.
This conclusion is based on a detailed understanding of the atmospheric
greenhouse effect and how human activities have been changing it. At the
same time, other reasonable explanations, most notably changes in the sun,
have been ruled out.
POLLUTION
There are many non-point source pollutants—coming from many diffuse
sources—that are still regularly released into the environment. These
chemicals and nutrients continue to wreak havoc on wildlife and ecosystems.
WILDLIFE AND
ENVIRONMENTAL
CONSERVATION
PROTECTING SPECIES UNDER THE THREAT
OF EXTINCTION
There are few places left on the planet where the impact of people has not
been felt. We have explored and left our footprint on nearly every corner
of the globe. As our population and needs grow, we are leaving less and
less room for wildlife. Wildlife are under threat from many different kinds
of human activities, from directly destroying habitat to spreading invasive
species and disease. Most ecosystems are facing multiple threats. Each
new threat puts additional stress on already weakened ecosystems and
their wildlife.
Conservation Practices
HABITAT MANAGEMENT
REHABILITATION
• Recycle and buy sustainable products.
• Training and Education.
• Grow native plants.
• Volunteer your time to protect the wildlife and
• Herbicides and pesticides that are hazardous
environment in your area.
pollutants can affect wildlife at many levels.
CAPTIVE BREEDING MASS EDUCATION

• Use your voice as a source and influence to
• Educate your family about endangered species
maintain animals and plants in controlled
and practices on conserving the environment.
environments.
• Pressure your civil servants.
• Have Captive animals not as a source of
entertainment.
YOUR WHAT CAN YOU DO TO BE MORE ECO-
CONSCIOUS?
Observe. Be more observant to the environment on how it is right now, its
CHALLENGE state, what it needs.
HOW CAN YOU INFLUENCE OTHERS TO DO THE

SAME?
Being an influence is a small to step to bigger change. You can influence
others through mass education by teaching them how to conserve the
environment.
WHAT CAN BE DONE IN YOUR COMMUNITY TO

SOLVE A COMMON ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEM?
Solve it together. As cliche this might sound, it is always better together. If a
single person cannot solve the problem, reach out to anyone and everyone
who is willing to help because that is what makes a community a community.

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GROUP 10

The Earth is what we all

FOOTPRINT ecological footprint includes developing world resource

GLOBAL OCEAN HEALTH DEFORESTATION LOSS OF

ENVIRONMENT CLIMATE CHANGE

CAPTIVE BREEDING MASS EDUCATION

CHALLENGE state, what it needs.

HOW CAN YOU INFLUENCE OTHERS TO DO THE

WHAT CAN BE DONE IN YOUR COMMUNITY TO

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