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Renewable resources
can be replaced
relatively quickly by
natural process.
Nonrenewable
resources form at a
much slower rate than
they are consumed.
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Spaceship Earth
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Pollution
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Environmental Ethics
Environmental ethics is the discipline that
studies the moral relationship of human
beings to the environment.
What is the value of the environment?
What moral responsibility do we have?
Which needs should be given the highest priority
in our decision making?
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Anthropocentrism
Anthropocentrism literally means humancentered.
This set of ethics protects and promotes of human
interests or well-being at the expense of all other
factors.
Often places an emphasis on short-term benefits
while disregarding long-term consequences.
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Advocated by President
Theodore Roosevelt.
Conservationists believe the
environment should be used in
a planned way to benefit
everyone.
The correct policy will create
the greatest good for the
greatest number, for the
longest time.
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Ecological Principles
"The college idealists who fill the
ranks of the environmental
movement seem willing to do
absolutely anything to save the
biosphere, except take science
courses and learn something
about it."
P.J. O'Rourke
Ecological Principles
Principle #1
Protection of Species and species
subdivisions will conserve genetic
diversity
continued existence of species and their
adaptation to changing conditions
To retain a variety of individuals and
species permits the adaptability needed
to sustain ecosystem productivity in
changing environments
Principle #1
Protection of Species and species
subdivisions will conserve genetic
diversity
sustaining ecosystem productivity can
also beget further diversity ( and future
adaptability)
Principle #2
Maintaining habitat is fundamental
to conserving species
a species habitat is the ecosystem
conditions that support its life
requirements
can be considered at a range of spatial
and temporal scales
Principle #3
Large areas usually contain more
species than smaller areas with
similar habitat
theory of island biogeography
a system of areas conserved for
biodiversity that includes large areas can
effectively support more viable
populations
Principle #4
All things are connected but the
nature and strength of those
connections vary
ecological relationships
ecological niche
Principle #5
Disturbances shape the
characteristic of populations,
communities and ecosystems
the type, intensity, frequency and
duration of disturbances shape the
characteristics
of
populations,
communities and ecosystems including
their size, shape and spatial relationships
Principle #6
Climate influences terrestrial and
aquatic ecosystems
climate has a dominant effect on
biodiversity as it influences meteorological
variables like temperature, precipitation,
and wind with consequences for many
ecological and physical processes
Ecological Principles
biological concentration
(biomagnification/bioaccumulation)
( changes in physical environment)
Think
Green
Go Green
Live
Green