The Supplements in the back of the book

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The Supplements in the back of the book

• Focus on The History of Environmental Science

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Supplements

• Fundamentals, Extensions of information, ideas
  found in each chapters
• More detail, More Facts and Figures to support
  concepts discussed.
• Lots of charts and maps

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Supplement Topics Include

• Supplement 3 Economic, Population, Hunger,
  Health, Pollution maps, data
• Supplement 4 Biodiversity, Ecological
  Footprints, Environmental Performance Maps
• Supplement 5 Basic Chemistry
• Supplements 7 and 9 Biology topics
• Supplements 8, 10 Climate, energy maps info
• Supplement 11,12 Trade, Religion and the
  environment

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You are responsible for being aware of the
information contained in them

• Only 1 supplementary is required reading
• 5 Environmental History

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How history and Environmental Science Connect

• Recent work points to numerous connections
  between environmental problems and the collapse
  of past civilizations.
• Easter Island
• Greenland, Iceland, Vikings in America
• Saharan cultures (Romans)
• Samaria and the first civilizations in the Iraq
• Anasazi (cliff dweller indians in NA)

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Easter Island
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Easter Island Revisions to a Popular
Environmental Story

• Some revisions in a popular environmental story
• Polynesians arrived about 800 years ago, not 2900
• Population may have reached 3000, not 15,000
• Used trees in an unsustainable manner, but rats
  may have multiplied and eaten the seeds of the
  trees, permanently keeping the island deforested
• Disease and Slavers from SA did most the
  depopulating of the island, not cannibalism

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AuthorJared Diamond

• Specializes in Biogeography
• Focused on societies, their interaction with each
  other and the environment

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Looking at mistakes in the past may help us make
the right choices today

• Iceland

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Environmental Science and environmental ideas
are relatively new

• North Americans who played an important role
  promoting environmental awareness
• Henry David Thoreau wrote Life in the woods
• John Muir, Founder of Sierra Club,
  preservationist
• Teddy Roosevelt , conservationist, forest service
  GC
• FDR and the Great Depression, CCC, gov depts, P
  health
• Rachel Carson Silent Spring effects of DDT,
  quality
• 70s presidents, Nixon, Ford, Carter EPA,
  Energy, Alaska
• Theo Coburn Our Stolen Future Hormone and
  chemicals

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Presidents with other goals

• Herbert Hoover return all federal land to the
  states to be sold
• Ronald Reagan (Sagebrush Rebellion) Increased
  sales, reduced funding
• George W. Bush, Actions like RR, withdrew from
  Kyoto accords concern global warming

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Environmental Catastrophes

• Killer fog/smog in London (1880,1952, 1956)
• A polluted river near Cleveland catches fire
  (1969)
• Love Canal housing project abandoned because of
  toxic wastes (1978)
• Three mile Island Nuclear Accident (1979)
• Bhopal, India (1984)
• Chernobyl (1986)
• Coal seem fires in WV and Centralia PA

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Cuyahoga River , Ohio 1969
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Bhopal Gas tragedy 1984
25 yrs on Bhopal water still toxic
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Love Canal Housing Project
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Environmental Concerns are Global

• The air pollution in major Chinese cities
  starting to make its way to the west coast

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Individuals can make a difference

• George Bush and the Marine Reserve Park he signed
  into law

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Your Questions?

• Connected to the information presented in this
  chapter

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Homework (Due, typed)

1. Read supplement 5
2. From all the items listed on the time line,
   select the 10-12 people, actions or events in
   North American Environmental history you consider
   most important.
3. For each, write a comment why you personally
   think the items you selected are important
4. Pick one items from your selection and be
   prepared to talk about it in class (pictures,
   email)

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Start of UN Environmental Issues Project

1. Purpose To better understand the interactions
   between environment, people and nations of the
   world
2. Completed by END of School YEAR
3. The other side of the UN besides peacekeeping
   and humanitarian aid
4. Job each student selects a Country, collect info
   about country and its environmental issues

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UN Project

• 5. By the end of MAY Prepare environmentally
  focused resolutions to place before the council
  to be debated and voted upon.
• Each chapter we cover in class will introduce new
  questions on which you need to gather information
• Use any source, but document, double-check
  (bibliography)
• 8. Place info in a separate section of
  comp
• books, notes (will check
  periodically)

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First step

• Choose 4 countries, eventually you will
  concentrate on just one
• Pick numbers from 1-192
• Answer the following questions

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First set of Questions

1. What is the countrys location, neighboring
   countries, and major types of topography
2. Copy or draw its flag, and indicate major
   languages, religions
3. Is this country developed, MDC, LDC?
4. Form of government, ideal and in reality

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First set of questions, continued

• Is there economic growth? If there is, is it
  sustainable? What are the largest employers?
• What is your estimate of the ecological footprint
  of the average person in the country?
• Wide spread diseases throughout country?
• 8. Any notable environmental problems disasters,
  events that have occurred?

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Homework Part 2

• Read up on the 4 countries selected
• Pick the most interesting one or two
• Remember, when you attend the council in MAY, you
  represent the country from the viewpoint of
  whats best for the country, not your own
  philosophy