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Environmentalpsycology powerpoint
1. Environmental Psycology
Group 1:
Joshua Sollenberger
Joasia Halka
Henry Carballo
Kaila Gant
Jacob Angel
Danielle Palumbo
Alex Khudin
2. What is Environmental
Psycology?
- It’s an interdisciplinary science that
focuses on the interplay between human
beings and their surrounding environment.
- It’s basically the study of how we affect
the environment, and vice versa.
- There are 2 Groups: Macro and Micro.
- We’ll be focusing on the Macro part to
understand what’s happening to the Earth.
3. Key to Environmental Psycology:
We affect and are affected by our
environments.
We will be discussing the role we play in
how we’ve been handling the earth so far.
5. Water Pollution:
Water covers over 70% of the Earth’s
surface.
Water pollution affects drinking water,
rivers, lakes and oceans all over the
world.
Harmful to humans, animals, and their
development.
6. What Causes Water Pollution?
Industry is a huge source of water pollution
Many industrial facilities use freshwater to carry away waste
from the plant and into rivers, lakes and oceans.
Humans buy things manufactured in factories that may not
be very environment friendly.
Oceans are polluted from oil spills, routine shipping, run-offs
and dumping.
Oil spills make up about 12% of the oil that enters the ocean.
The rest come from shipping travel, drains and dumping.
We drive SUV's and cars that aren't very ecofriendly.
7. Fun Facts:
WATER POLLUTION FACTS FOR THE UNITED STATES:
40% of America's rivers are too polluted for fishing,
swimming, or aquatic life.
Even worse are America's lakes—46% are too polluted
for fishing, swimming, or aquatic life.
8. More Facts:
Two-thirds of US estuaries and bays are either
moderately or severely degraded from
eutrophication (nitrogen and phosphorus
pollution).
The Mississippi River—which drains nearly 40%
of the continental United States, including its
central farm lands—carries an estimated 1.5
million metric tons of nitrogen pollution into
the Gulf of Mexico each year. The resulting
hypoxic coastal dead zone in the Gulf each
summer is about the size of Massachusetts.
9. In one week, a typical cruise
ship generates:
210,000 gallons of sewage;
1,000,000 gallons of "gray water" from
showers, sinks, dishwashers and clothes
washers;
37,000 gallons of oily bilge water;
More than eight tons of solid waste; and
Toxic wastes from onboard operations like
dry cleaners and photo processing
laboratories.
13. Deforestation:
Deforestation is clearing Earth's forests on
a massive scale, often resulting in
damage to the quality of the land.
Forests still cover about 30 percent of the
world’s land area, but swaths the size of
Panama are lost each and every year.
The world’s rain forests could completely
vanish in a hundred years at the current
rate of deforestation.
14. Why Deforestate?
Forests are cut down for many reasons, but
most of them are related to money or to
people’s need to provide for their families.
Agriculture is the biggest reason for
deforestation.
Often many small farmers will each clear a
few acres to feed their families by cutting
down trees and burning them in a process.
15. Why Deforestate?
Loggers, some of them acting illegally, also
build roads to access more and more remote
forests—which leads to further deforestation.
Forests are also cut as a result of growing
urban sprawl.
The net loss of the world’s forests is estimated
at 7.3 million hectares (18 million acres) per
year (Forestry Department Food and
Agriculture Organization of the United
Nations).
16. Fast Facts about Deforestation
. Every hour, at least 4,500 acres of forest fall
to chain saws, machetes, flames, or
bulldozers
More than half of the world's timber and 72%
of paper is consumed by 22% of the world's
population (the United States, Europe, and
Japan
. The United States has less than 5% of the
world's population yet consumes more than
30% of the world's paper (Rainforestweb.org).
17. How to Stop:
The quickest solution to deforestation
would be to simply stop cutting down
trees.
Though deforestation rates have slowed a
bit in recent years, financial realities make
this unlikely to occur.
18. Better Solution?
A more workable solution is to carefully
manage forest resources by eliminating
clear-cutting to make sure that forest
environments remain intact.
The cutting that does occur should be
balanced by the planting of enough
young trees to replace the older ones
felled in any given forest.
19. Many Different Ways to
Help:
Reforestation
Use Recycled Items
(If Farmer) Try rotating your crops
Cut only mature trees, not baby ones.
Join Environmental Awareness groups
Don’t use firewood, use coals
Support the laws and programs that help
protect forests
20. Man Made Disasters:
Bigtype of man made disaster: War.
War causes damage to landscape and
promises to be more destructive as we
develop more weapons.
21. Negative Views of Human Nature
Another ideology that increases the
likelihood of going to war is the bleak
―realism‖ of philosophers such as
Machiavelli and Hobbes, which holds that
people act to fulfill their own selfish
desires and that they do not care what
happens to others in the process.
22. Other Types of Manmade
Disaster:
Oil Spills
Chemical Spills
Nuclear Meltdowns
Toxic Dumping
Different types of contamination
23. Over Population:
World Population closing in on 7 Billion
People.
After reaching the 1 billion mark in 1805,
the world's population has exploded in
the past two centuries.
The population reached 2 billion people
in 1927 and then doubled to 4 billion just
47 years later in 1974.
Now only 12 years after the United Nations
announced 6 billion on Oct. 12, 1999, the
world has reached the 7 billion milestone.
24. The Price We Pay:
Population = Demand
Most biologists agree we’re in the midst of the
Earth’s sixth mass extinction event; species are
disappearing about 1,000 times faster than is
typical of the planet’s history, due to unstable
human growth.
25. If the planet
saw a net
gain of
250,000
people a day,
we’ll be on
course to
reach 8 billion
by 2020 and 9
billion by
2050.
26. Growth
As the human population
grows and rich countries
continue to consume
resources at voracious
rates, we are crowding
out, poisoning and eating
all other species into
extinction.
The Center for Biological
Diversity has released a list
of the top 10 plants and
animals in the United
States facing extinction
from pressure caused by
overpopulation.
28. Global Warming:
Global Warming – Rise in Earth’s air and
surface temperature.
Polar Ice Caps melting, ocean
temperature rising.
We cause greenhouse gases to trap heat.
Result – Ruined Ecosystem
29. Solutions?
Call those litterer’s out! THE WORLD IS NOT
YOUR TRASHCAN. Think of the implications
of throwing that McDonalds cup out your
window.
Personalize Faults
Accept the fact the the Earth won’t last
forever… CHANGE YOUR BEHAVIOR.
