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Environment and Sustainable Development Insights

The document discusses the environment's role as a totality of resources, including biotic and abiotic elements, and categorizes resources into renewable and non-renewable types. It highlights the importance of the environment's carrying capacity in sustaining life and addresses various causes of environmental crises such as population growth, pollution, and industrialization. The document emphasizes the need for sustainable practices to prevent resource depletion and environmental degradation.

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Environment and Sustainable Development Insights

The document discusses the environment's role as a totality of resources, including biotic and abiotic elements, and categorizes resources into renewable and non-renewable types. It highlights the importance of the environment's carrying capacity in sustaining life and addresses various causes of environmental crises such as population growth, pollution, and industrialization. The document emphasizes the need for sustainable practices to prevent resource depletion and environmental degradation.

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ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABLE

DEVELOPMENT
KRISHNAKUMAR C S
PGT ECONOMICS
DAV-BHEL SCHOOL, RANIPET
● ENVIRONMENT
● Environment is def ined as the total planetary inheritance and the
totality of all resources.
● Environment includes biotic and abiotic elements.
SUPPLIES RESOURCES ABSORBS
WASTE

SUSTAINS LIFE PROVIDES AESTHETIC


SERVICES

FUNCTIONS
OF ENVIRONMENT
RESOURCES
Anything that satisfies human wants are
called Resources.
Renewable Resources
● Resources that can be reproduced by physical,
chemical and biological processes are called
Renewable Resources.
● They are inexhaustible.
● Plants, Animals, Solar Energy and Wind Energy
are Renewable Resources.
Non-Renewable Resources
● Resources that cannot be reproduced are called Non
- Renewable Resources.
● They are exhaustible.
● Minerals, Coal, Petroleum are Non-
Renewable Resources.
Environment Absorbs Waste
● The waste generated by human beings and other
living organisms are absorbed by the environment.
They gradually disappear and become part of
environment.
● Environment sustains life by providing genetic and
bio diversity.
● Environment can perform its functions well if they
are within the carrying capacity of environment.
Carrying Capacity implies that:
(a) The rate of resource extraction should be less than
the rate of resource formation.
(b) Generation of waste should be with in the
absorptive capacity of the environment.
Large scale pollution and depletion of
resources
CAUSES OF ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS
RAPID GROWTH OF POPULATION
AIR POLLUTION
WATER CONTAMINATION
AFFLUENT CONSUMPTION
STANDARDS
ILLITERACY
INDUSTRIALISATION
URBANISATION
REDUCTION OF FOREST
COVERAGE
POACHING
RAPID GROWTH OF POPULATION
● Rapid growth of population results in large scale
utilisation of resources. Resources get exhausted.

● It also leads to large scale generation of waste. It is


beyond the absorptive capacity of the environment.
AIR POLLUTION
● Air pollution refers to the addition of harmful
substances to the atmosphere.
● Industrial development and the increased use of
motor vehicles caused large scale pollution of the air.
● Carbon di oxide content is increasing. It leads to
Global Warming.
● The addition of CFC gases leads to ozone layer
depletion.
● Several diseases spread due to air pollution.
WATER CONTAMINATION
● Water contamination refers to the addition of
harmful substances to water.
● The dumbing of urban waste and waste water
causes water pollution.
● Waste water from industrial units is taken to
water bodies like river.
● The polluted water cannot be used by man.
● Several
AFFLUENT CONSUMPTION
STANDARDS

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