Environmental Sustainability

What is environmental sustainability?

• The responsibility to conserve natural resources and protect global ecosystems to support health and wellbeing, now and in the future.

• Effects of human activity on the biophysical environment.

• An action designed to solve an environmental problem.

• Relating to the natural world and the impact of human activity on its condition

Sustainability development is development that meets the needs of the present without __________ the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”

• Reasoning

• Thinking

• Visualising

• Compromising

There are 4 pillars of sustainability.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Human sustainability aims to

• Preserve social capital by investing and creating services that constitute the framework of our society.

• Maintain and improve the human capital in society.

• Maintain the capital intact.

• Improve human welfare through the protection of natural capital

Example of Unsustainable activity is

• Recycling

• Sort the garbage

• Buying One-Use Plastics

• Collect rain water.

The inventions of paper straw for sustainability is to

• Reduce plastic waste in landfills and waterways

• Maintainquality of life for many people who need extra assistance to stay hydrated

• Make more money.

Polylactic acid (PLA) is a type of biodegradable plastic which is made from __________

• Sugars in corn starch, cassava or sugarcane.

• Microorganisms, sometimes geneticall engineered that produce plastic from organic materials.

• 100% plant-based ingredients.

• Recycled plastics.

One of the alternative energy sources is wind energy. It ___________

• Uses a power plant to produce electricity for their consumers.

• Provides electricity without burning any fuel or polluting the air.

• is an exhaustible resource.

• uses the heat trapped in the Earth's core which is created by the slow decay of radioactive particles in rocks at the centre of the planet.

Growing crops on every space and inch of land available is an example of ____________

Practice Reuse, Reduce, Recyle (3R) is one of the way to practice sustainability.

• TRUE

• FALSE