Pinchot Land Use

WEEK 2 LAB 1 SCI 207

Lab Questions

1. What are the 3 everyday products and practices that contribute most to your environmental footprint? Home energy use, Natural gas and the use of Electricity, Food ( buying Pre-packaged products over farm fresh items) excessive Vehicle emissions, driving to work and not using public transit or bike (finding alternative transportation)

2. What impacts might result if everyone in the world enjoyed the same lifestyle? For example, what might the impacts be on:

a. Earth's climate? Sea levels will rise , Global warming will Increase due to the burning of fossil fuels and emission into the earth's atmosphere, burning more coal and oil for homes, factories, and transportation. Burning these fossil fuels releases carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into Our atmosphere.

b. The health of ecosystems and biodiversity? Our Ecosystems are already changing day by day, and can be seen in our weather and temperature changes throughout the United states and the World.. As temperatures warm, species may either move to a cooler habitat or die. Species that are particularly vulnerable include endangered species, coral reefs, and polar animals. Warming has also caused changes in the timing of spring events and the length of the growing season. Hurricanes and tornados have changed in frequency and strength throughout, they are stronger and more frequent than before, also showing up in areas where they haven't been documented ever before. The ice cap is melting at a faster rate changing our whole eco-system and all species in it.

c. Humanity's natural resource base and thus economic security? We as humans must do our part in protecting what's 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 or waste and pollution rate and restore as much as we can back to create an well balance eco-system to try to place it back to some kind of normalcy to secure Humans a future access to natural resources.

WEEK 2 LAB 1 SCI 207

3. Identify solutions to each of the 3 components of your environmental footprint that you listed in question 2. What are the savings of BOTH carbon emissions and money you can achieve via each solution?

a. How much would this amount to if every household in America (roughly 100 million) did this? We could help the environment while saving