This document provides an overview of key topics in environmental science, including the nature of environmental science, natural resources, sustainability, and pressures on the global environment. It discusses how humans exist within and depend on the environment, and how environmental science studies these interactions. It also summarizes perspectives on population growth, the tragedy of the commons, ecological footprints, and the state of the world in terms of pollution, climate change, and biodiversity loss. Scientific principles and the importance of global, sustainable solutions are emphasized.
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Figure 1.16 Four scientific principles of sustainability: these four interconnected principles of sustainability are derived from learning how nature has sustained a variety of life on the earth for about 3.7 billion years. The top left oval shows sunlight stimulating the production of vegetation in the Arctic tundra during its brief summer ( solar energy ) and the top right oval shows some of the diversity of species found there during the summer ( biodiversity ). The bottom right oval shows Arctic gray wolves stalking a caribou during the long cold winter ( population control ). The bottom left oval shows Arctic gray wolves feeding on their kill. This plus huge numbers of tiny decomposers that convert dead matter to soil nutrients recycle the nutrients needed to support the plant growth shown in the top left and right ovals ( nutrient recycling ).
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