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Anthropocene
relating to or denoting the current geological age, viewed as the period during which human activity has been the dominant influence on climate and the environment.
Extirpated
Local disappearance of a species
Extirpated
Human-Centric Futurism Viewpoint
Humans claim the responsibility to ensure
that similar biodiversity exists in the
future.
Environmental Wisdom
It recognizes humans as an integral part of the environment, not its masters, and emphasizes the importance of stewardship, conservation,
earths life support system
water, air, life, rocks and soil
human cultureshpere
population, economics, politics, technology
Earth’s atmosphere is composed
of
78 percent nitrogen.
• 21 percent oxygen.
• 0.9 percent argon.
• 0.1 percent other gases
aerobic condition
the presence of oxygen
anerobic condition
withount the presence of oxygen
Fast fashion footprint
Production is kept high with no regard for
the environment
● Most of the clothing produced ends up in
landfills
● Clothes that end up in the environment
add to the already growing microplastics
issue
what percent of the world’s carbon emissions are due to the production of fashion
10%
what percent of microplastics make up plastic pollution in oceans
31%
Soil Erosion
The loss of the top layer of soil
Land use change
educes farmland,
harms soil, and increases pollution and floods. It also destroys forests and animal
homes, adds carbon to the air, and makes the Earth hotter.
SCOTOBIOLOGY
the study of biological systems that
require nightly darkness for their
effective performance;
Ecological niche
role of an organism in their environment
photoaxis
the bodily movement of a motile organism in response to light
Oceans (and seas) cover ?
of the planet.
71%
hypoxic zones
low oxygen zones in the deep ocean,
thermohaline processes)
the movement of water in the ocean and groundwater driven by density differences, which are determined by temperature (thermo) and salinity (haline).
coriolis effect
This effect deflects moving water to the right in the North and to the left in the South, causing complex wind patterns that drive the large, rotating ocean currents known as gyres.
The Global
Conveyor Belt
also known as thermohaline circulation, is a system of ocean currents that circulates water throughout the planet, driven by differences in temperature and salinity
Nutrient pollution
the process where too many nutrients,
mainly nitrogen and phosphorus, are added to bodies of
water”
Eutrophication
Excessive richness of nutrients in a lake or
other body of water, frequently due to runoff from the land,
which causes a dense growth of plant life and death of animal
life from lack of oxygen.