Objective: Identify ways in which the choices that you can make as an individual may affect the environment.
People need to have a responsibility for self. Major changes and impacts won’t make a difference unless individual people make choices to live in a way that supports a continued healthy ecosystem. (DeWitt)
In This Section:
- Understanding Our Environment
- The Environment and Society
- Economics and International Cooperation
- Statistics and Models
- Making Informed Decisions
- Freshwater and Marine Ecosystems
- How Populations Change in Size
- How Species Interact with Each Other
- Land Use
- Land Management and Conservation
- Feeding the World
- Crops and Soil
- The Geosphere
- Mineral Exploration and Mining
- Energy Resources and Fossil Fuels
- Nuclear Energy
- Renewable Energy Today
- Alternative Energy and Conservation
- Biodiversity at Risk
- Studying Human Populations
- Changing Population Trends
- Reducing Solid Waste
- The Atmosphere
- Air, Noise, and Light Pollution
- Atmosphere and Climate Change
- The Importance of the Individual