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Sustainability
Capacity of the earths natural systems and human cultural systems to survive, flourish, and adapt to changing environmental conditions into the very long-term future.
Environment
is everything around us (non)living things.
Goals of environmental science
Learn how life on earth has survived/thrived
Understand how we interact with the environment
Find ways to deal with environmental problems and live sustainably.
Ecology
biological science that studies how living things interact with each other and their environment.
Organisms
Living things
Species
Group of organisms that has a unique set of characteristics that distinguish it from other.
ecosystem
set of organisms with a defined area or volume that interact with one another in their environment.
Environmentalism
A social movement aimed to protects the earth’s life support.
Scientific principles of sustainablity
Dependence on solar energy, biodiversity, chemical cycling
Social science principals
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