Environmental Lab Questions

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Lab Questions 1. What are the 3 everyday products and practices that contribute most to your environmental footprint? Food, shelter, transportation, 2. What impacts might result if everyone in the world had the same lifestyle as you? For example, what might the impacts be on? a. Earth’s climate? Climate change is humanity’s systematic overuse of the planet’s finite resources. Climate change, first and foremost, is a consequence of high fossil fuel dependence. Climate is an important environmental influence on ecosystems. Climate changes and the impacts of climate change affect ecosystems in a variety of ways. For instance, warming could force species to migrate to higher latitudes or higher elevations where temperatures are more conducive…show more content…
Although some stressors cause only minor impacts when acting alone, their cumulative impact may lead to dramatic ecological changes. Climate changes and shifts in ecological conditions could support the spread of pathogens, parasites, and diseases, with potentially serious effects on human health, agriculture, and fisheries. c. Humanity’s natural resource base and thus economic security? We as humans must do our part in protecting what is left of our natural resources and must realize that what we do today will affect the future for the next generations and so on. We have to set up guidelines to secure our environments well-being and follow them in order to save them from becoming extinct and hurting us in the long run, we must reduce our waste and pollution rate and restore as much as we can back to create a well-balanced eco-system to try to place it back to some kind of normalcy to secure human a future access to natural resources. 3. Identify solutions to each of the 3 components of your environmental footprint that you listed in question 1. What are the savings of BOTH carbon emissions and money you can achieve via each solution? solutions to each of the 3 components of your environmental footprint listed in question 1 Savings of carbon emissions Savings of…show more content…
0 % of your total emissions $43 annual savings Replace single-pane windows with ENERGY STAR windows. 3 % of your total emissions $150 annual savings TOTALS 44% SAVINGS OF TOTAL EMISSIONS $1474 ANNUAL SAVINGS 4. How much would this amount to if every household in America (roughly 100 million) did this? 1474 × 1,000,000 = $1,474,000,000 annual savings 44% × 1,000,000 = 44000 % of total emissions savings 5. If everybody did this, what might the impact on the health of our environment be? a. For example, how might these collective actions benefit our air and water quality? b. The health of the world’s forests? c. How might these environmental improvements benefit human health and, in turn, our economy? 6. Does reducing the size of our footprint necessarily mean reducing our quality of life? No reducing the size of our footprint will not reduce our quality of life; we can still have a quality of life but by reducing our footprint will better our life. 7. Are there ways of enhancing quality of life while lowering impact? Yes we can begin by driving a higher mileage car, generating less waste, saving money by using more-efficient
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