Topic : Environment
Name : Hardeep
Singh
Class : ME-3
Roll No: 11136
College: RIMT Poly.
College M.G.G.
Environment
The environment is something you are very familiar
with. It's everything that makes up our surroundings
and affects our ability to live on the earth—the air
we breathe, the water that covers most of the
earth's surface, the plants and animals around us,
and much more.
In recent years, scientists have been carefully
examining the ways that people affect the
environment. They have found that we are causing
air pollution, deforestation, acid rain, and other
problems that are dangerous both to the earth and
to ourselves. These days, when you hear people
talk about “the environment”, they are often
referring to the overall condition of our planet, or
how healthy it is.
Economic magic,
environmental failures
“Pollution. Deforestation.
Wildlife trade. The aspirations of
more than one billion people.
These are some of the critical
issues that India grapples with
every day.”
But as the
country’s
population
and economy
continue to
grow, the
need to find
solutions
becomes more
urgent every
day.
Across India, concern is mounting
over an ever growing list of
environmental problems.
More people means increased
pressure on natural resources (from
water to forests), while an economy
in high-gear is leaving a trail of
pollution that’s affecting not only
India, but the rest of the world too.
Natural environment
The natural environment encompasses all
living and non-living things occurring naturallyon
Earth or some region thereof. It is an environment
that encompasses the interaction of all living
species.[1] The concept of the natural
environment can be distinguished by
components:
Complete ecological units that function as natural
systems without massive humanintervention,
including all vegetation, microorganisms, soil,
rocks, atmosphere and natural phenomena that
occur within their boundaries.
Universal natural resources and
physical phenomena that lack clear-cut
boundaries, such as air, water, and climate, as
well as energy, radiation, electric charge, and
magnetism, not originating from human activity.
Natural environment
Atmosphere, climate and
weather
The atmosphere of the Earth serves as a key
factor in sustaining the planetary ecosystem. The
thin layer of gases that envelops the Earth is held
in place by the planet's gravity. Dry airconsists of
78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, 1% argon and other
inert gases, such as carbon dioxide. The
remaining gases are often referred to as trace
gases,[16] among which are thegreenhouse
gases such as water vapor, carbon dioxide,
methane, nitrous oxide, and ozone. Filtered air
includes trace amounts of many other
chemical compounds. Air also contains a variable
amount of water vapor and suspensions of water
droplets and ice crystals seen asclouds. Many
natural substances may be present in tiny
amounts in an unfiltered air sample, including
dust, pollen and spores, sea spray, volcanic ash,
and meteoroids
Effects of global warming
The potential dangers of global warming are being increasingly
studied by a wide global consortium of scientists. These
scientists are increasingly concerned about the potential long-
term effects of global warming on our natural environment and
on the planet. Of particular concern is how climate change and
global warming caused by anthropogenic, or human-made
releases of greenhouse gases, most notably carbon dioxide, can
act interactively, and have adverse effects upon the planet, its
natural environment and humans' existence. Efforts have been
increasingly focused on the mitigation of greenhouse gases that
are causing climatic changes, on developing adaptative
strategies to global warming, to assist humans, animal and
plant species, ecosystems, regions and nations in adjusting to
the effects of global warming. Some examples of recent
collaboration to address climate change and global warming
include:
Effects of global warming
Climate
Climate encompasses
the statistics of
temperature, humidity,
atmospheric pressure,
wind,rainfall,
atmospheric particle
count and numerous
other meteorological
elements in a given
region over long
periods of time.[citation
needed] Climate can
be contrasted to
weather, which is the
present condition of
these same elements
over periods up to two
weeks
Weather
Weather is a set of all the
phenomena occurring in a
given atmospheric area at a
giventime.[21] Most weather
phenomena occur in the
troposphere,[22][23] just
below thestratosphere.
Weather refers, generally, to
day-to-day temperature and
precipitation activity, whereas
climate is the term for the
average atmospheric
conditions over longer periods
of time.[24] When used without
qualification, "weather" is
understood to be the weather
of Earth.
Life
Evidence suggest that
life on Earth has existed for
about 3.7 billion years.[25] All
known life forms share
fundamental molecular
mechanisms, and based on
these observations, theories
on the origin of life attempt to
find a mechanism explaining
the formation of a primordial
single cell organism from
which all life originates. There
are many different hypotheses
regarding the path that might
have been taken from
simple organic molecules via
pre-cellular life to protocells
and metabolism.
Ecosystems
An ecosystem (also called as environment) is
a natural unit consisting of all plants, animals
and micro-organisms (biotic factors) in an
area functioning together with all of the non-
living physical (abiotic) factors of the
environment
Environmental problems in
India
Deforestation (A thirst for palm
oil )
Pollution
Unsustainable and illegal wildlife trade
solution of environmental
problems
A PERSON WILL SELF-REGULATE FOR
OPTIMAL HEALTH UNLESS...
1) There is a lack of AWARENESS (of
one's current state of dysregulation).
2) There is a lack of SKILLS (for
healthy regulation).
3) There are stronger MOTIVATIONS
for dysregulation than for healthy
self-regulation).
4) Outside forces BLOCK your
attempts at self-regulation.
CONCLUSION
The usefulness of this model is two-fold. First, it
sets environmental sustainability as the default
condition, the baseline, without denying the many
sources of unsustainable behavior. This is
important because it is easier to return to a
healthy and self-regulated state than it is to
create one. Second, it helps us know where to
look for the sources of unsustainable and
environmentally irresponsible behaviors, which in
turn, helps us intervene. Rather that guessing or
"taking our best shot" about where to put our
efforts, this model can help us design strategies
for promoting more environmentally responsible
and sustainable behaviors.