World’s coolest bike lights turn your wheels into lightning, flames, or cartoon animals

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.

• A measure of how much resources a person or country consumes,

• 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.

GLOBAL OUTLOOK:What are the world’s trends?

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

Homework: SGQ 1-7 (Ch.1)