LESSON chestnut 1: STEWARDSHIP

The world you know today has undergone significant changes since the time of your parents and grandparents-from crystal-clear rivers and dense forests to modern environmental pressures.

Environmental Shift

Trash is everywhere-in bins, creeks, canals rivers, and along roads. In a consumeristic society, rapid consumption outpaces nature's capacity to recover.

The Toll of Consumerism

Long-term weather and temperature shifts caused by greenhouse gas emissions, trapping heat, driving global warming and extreme weather.

Climate Change

Contamination of indoor and outdoor environments by chemical, physical, or biological agents harming human health, plants, and buildings.

Air Pollution

Decline of biological diversity and natural ecosystems driven by human land use, overfishing habitat destruction, and deforestation.

Biodiversity Loss

What is the Triple Planetary Crisis

Climate Change, Air Pollution, Biodiversity Loss

Involves the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services, as well as other resources.

The Economic Process

Defined as a set of arrangements by which a society produces, distributes, and consumes goods and services.

The Economy

It is the propensity to consume and to keep consuming.

Consumerism

They tend to accumulate more possessions, defining their identity through what they own.

Consumeristic

As _________, our participation in the economic process is to buy and consume products.

Consumers

What is the PROCESS?

Extraction, Production, Distribution, Consumption, Disposal

On ________, the UN General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to declare the right to a healthy environment as a universal human right.

July 28, 2022

During the 2022 Philippine Environment Science Summit, Socioeconomic Planning Secretary __________ emphasized the vital need for proactive environmental policies.

Karl Kendrick Chua

It is the Freedom from hazardous emissions.

Clean Air

it is the Protection against global heating

Safe Climate

It is the access to clean drinking water.

Safe Water

It is the healthy and ethical sources

Sustainable Food

It is the Safe Living/Working Environments

Nontoxic Spaces

Is it the Thriving Animal/Plant Life.

Healthy Biodiversity

was born in Massachusetts in 1774. John lost his mother, Elizabeth, when he was still very young. When he grew up, he decided that his personal mission in life was to plant fruit seeds in the underdeveloped parts of the country.

John Chapman (Johnny Appleseed)

When did John Chapman died?

1845 at 72

refers to our moral duty to protect and nurture Earth's resources rather than overconsume. We are temporary custodians tasked with ensuring a sustainable future.

Stewardship

refer to food, clothing, and shelter.

Products

refers to buying goods and services.

Consumption

Means choosing products with the least negative impact on the planet, considering how products are made and prioritizing future generations.

Sustainable Consumption

Means creating goods and services using processes that are nonpolluting, safe, and helpful for consumers and workers.

Sustainable Production

As consumers, we have a role to play by making more informed choices when buying products.

Reducing Personal Consumption

is the sum total of all carbon dioxide that we produce individually through our different different activities in a particular given time. Every appliance we turn on and every resource we burn adds greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.

Carbon Footprint

An advocacy campaign that aims to guide people in changing lifestyles and practices toward sustainable systems. It ensures that wastes become valuable resources for other uses rather than ending up in landfills.

Zero Waste

Food waste rotting in landfills produces methane, a powerful greenhouse gas. By planning meals and reducing waste, we significantly lower resource consumption and support resource recovery facilities.

Mitigating Climate Change

Food waste rotting in landfills produces ______, a powerful greenhouse gas.

Methane

Who is the Four Eco Warriors of Puerto Princesa, Palawan

Lydia Casiano, Angelica Dela Peña, Noralyn Oplas, Edely Masteryo

He is a 63-year-old man from Leyte, made the inspiring decision to plant 10,000 mangroves in his village.

Gary Dabasol