Environmental Protection Greenhouse Gas (GHG)

Environment (Ecosystem) The amount of greenhouse gas in the

atmosphere is possibly above the threshold
●​ An ecosystem (also called as that can potentially cause climate change.
Environment ) is a natural unit
consisting of all plants, animals and
micro-organisms (biotic factors) Important sources of GHGs
●​ It is also an area where these biotic Agriculture is the second most important
factors are functioning together with all source (animals – cows and pigs), feed
of the non-living physical (abiotic) production
factors of the environment.
Even the chemical intensive food
●​ It is the complex of physical, chemical, production, and flooded paddy rice
and biotic factors (such as climate, production, as well as deforestation driven by
soil, and living things) that act upon an the desire to expand cultivated areas.
organism or an ecological community
and ultimately determine its form and Water Pollution
survival
Access to safe water is an absolute
●​ Also, the aggregate of social and necessity for all.
cultural conditions that influence the
life of an individual or community ◦ Earth’s surface is covered by 71% water
and very essential for life. No one can
survive without water
Major Environmental Issues ◦ Pollution of water, air, land occurs through
excessive deforestation, industrialization and
​ Our environment now is faced with overfilling landfills which emits CO2 and adds
three issues which need immediate to greenhouse gas emissions
attention
1. global warming and climate
change; Human Activities
2. water pollution and ocean Water pollution happens because of
acidification; human activities, in such a manner that
negatively affects its legitimate uses.
3. loss of biodiversity.
The contamination of water bodies which
include the lakes, rivers, oceans, aquifers,
Global Warming and Climate Change reservoirs and groundwater are inevitable
once human activities will not be regulated or
​ It occurs when carbon dioxide (CO2) controlled
and other air pollutants collect in the
atmosphere and absorb sunlight and
solar radiation that have bounced off the Ocean Acidification
earth’s surface.
Ocean acidification refers to a
​ Normally this radiation would escape reduction in the pH of the ocean over an
into space, but these pollutants present extended period of time, caused primarily by
in the atmosphere, trap the heat and uptake of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the
cause the planet to get hotter. atmosphere and pollutants.
Levels of CO2
The rising levels of CO2 caused an Ocean acidification is affecting the
increase temperatures, extreme weather entire world’s oceans, fishes, including
events, rising sea levels and other coastal estuaries and waterways. The fish
negative changes. and shellfish and people rely on food from the
ocean as their primary source of protein.
Loss of Biodiversity Environmental Protection is among the
many approaches to sustain the biotic and
Biodiversity is the variability among living abiotic resources in the ecosystem
organisms from all sources, including
terrestrial, marine, and other aquatic Environmental protection is therefore
ecosystems. necessary to protect the environment or
habitat of various living and non living
The loss of biodiversity can be attributed to organisms.
human beings who primarily altered the
ecosystem
Environmental Protection
Loss of Biodiversity Causes and Effect : Protection could be done through advocacy
by adopting these concept of 4Rs (reduce,
Alteration and loss of the habitats:. the recycle, recover, and reuse) are being
transformation of the natural areas achieved or not.
determines not only the loss of the vegetable
species, but also a decrease in the animal
species associated to them.
Why do we need to protect or
Introduction of exotic species and environmentally conscious?
genetically modified organisms: species
originating from a particular area, introduced The environment helps in protecting the
into new natural environments can lead to ecosystem: Changes affecting the
different forms of imbalance in the ecological ecosystem put multiple species in the danger
equilibrium. of extinction necessitating the need of
protecting the environment.
Pollution: Human activity influences the
natural environment producing negative, It is a way to give to your generation.
direct or indirect, effects that alter the flow of One will be happier in life if you focus on
energy, the chemical and physical giving rather than receiving. Adopt the 4Rs
constitution of the environment and
abundance of the species The trees that are a significant part of
the environment helps in keeping the
Overexploitation of resources: climate cool: Start planting trees in the
denuded areas or the trees play a significant
Once the renewable natural resource role in creating shades on the ground so
in a particular area is excessively intense, the crucial in balanced ecosystem
resource itself may become exhausted
Preserving the environment could
In the case of fishing scrupulously the prevent soil erosion: Soil erosion is among
fishes like the sardines, herrings, tuna from the many factors that makes farming very
the ocean and captures without leaving unproductive and environmental degradation.
enough time for the organisms to spawn
cause loss of biodiversity. Many animals need the environment for
survival: As the environment gets destroyed,
the more animals in the ecosystem perish.
Environmental Sustainability
Sustainability Protecting Energy Resources
Environmental Protection is among the •The earth is a storehouse of energy. The
many approaches to sustain the resources fossils fuels, under its surface, while the wind
in the ecosystem and water on its surface. Plant or an animal
or microbes need energy to perform their vital
Sustainability is the process where the function.
people maintains the change in a
homeostasis balanced environment or the •Like the plants growing on it where the
state of equilibrium in which the exploitation sunlight falling upon it becomes the sources
of resources must be controlled or regulated of energy.
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