Warm up Question: If a person said,

“It is my job and solemn duty to maintain the planet for my generation and the generations to come.”

They would most likely follow which worldview:A. Planetary Management WorldviewB. Stewardship World viewC. Environmental Wisdom WorldviewD. Deep Ecology Worldview

A Common Tragedy

What are the three types of resources? What is the Tragedy of the Commons? What are the different types of Pollution? What are the solutions for Pollutions?

Natural Capital are those in the environment or those obtained in the environment.◦ Food, Water, Air, Shelter, Petroleum, etc.

A Resource is anything obtained from the environment to meet our needs and wants.

Three types of resources:◦ Perpetual◦ Renewable◦ Nonrenewable

Perpetual Resources◦ Renewed continuously

Solar Energy Renewable Resources

◦ On a human time scale, a resource that is renewed quickly (from hours to 100 years) through natural processes as long as it is not used faster than it is renewed. Forests, grasslands, wild animals, water, air, and soil

◦ Sustainable yield and environmental degradation

Nonrenewable Resources◦ A resources that exist in a fixed quantity inside

the crust.◦ Can be renewed in millions to billions of years

through geologic processes. Coal, oil, and natural gas, metallic minerals, and non

metallic minerals Ways to prevent loss of NR resources?

◦ Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle

There are three types of property◦ Private Property◦ Common Property

Parks Village Farms The Common area of a dorm

◦ Open-Access Property Clean Air Underground water supplies Open Ocean and its fish

In 1968, biologist Garrett Hardin called the degradation of OAP the Tragedy of the Commons (TotC).◦ “If I do not use this resource, someone else will.

The little bit that I use or pollute is not enough to matter, and anyway, it’s a renewable resource.” What’s wrong with this statement?

With the overuse of resources, Pollution is created.

Pollution is anything in the environment that is harmful to the health, survival, or activities of humans or other organisms.

Two Sources of Pollution◦ Point Source◦ Nonpoint Source

Two Types of Pollution◦ Biodegradable◦ Nonbiodegradable

What are the unwanted effects of pollution?

Pollution Cleanup◦ Output pollution Control

Pollution Prevention◦ Input Pollution Control