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ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS,

CONSEQUENCES,

AND INTERRELATIONS

Global Warming

Deforestation

Biodiversity

Loss from

Deforestation

Toxic,

Carcinogenic,

Endocrine,

Immune System

Disrupting…

Pollution

Nutrient (sewage, fertilizers) Overload

Images showing the changes in chlorophyll concentration during the period of red tide.

Red tide in Hong Kong

Heavy Metals: E-waste

Nuclear Power

Carrying Capacity

• The maximum number of individuals of a

species that can be sustained by an environment without decreasing the capacity of the environment to sustain that same amount in the future.

Compartments and Pollution/Extraction

• Air: emissions, GHGs, ozone loss, abrading, offgassing, noise
• Water: Nutrient BOD, chemical emissions, pharmaceuticals, underground leaking, air fallout
• Land: landfill, hazardous and nuclear waste, abrading, soil erosion
• Biosphere (life): habitat destruction, alien species, exploitation, global warming, pollutants

Consequences

• Human Health
• Human Wealth
• Nature’s Health

Human Health

• Toxins: heavy metals,organic compounds, particulates, oxides.
• Carcinogens
• Radiation
• Noise
• UV radiation
• Global warming>>disease increase
• Stress

Nature’s Health

• Pollution: birth rate, death rate, distribution, growth rate abundance
• Loss of space and habitat destruction
• Biogeochemical balance upset
• Ecological balance upset by biodiversity loss

Interrelationships Of Environmental Problems

• Sources, sinks and flows
• Point and area origins
• Space and time dimensions
• Synergistic and cumulative affects