Environmental Awareness

Environmental awareness is to understand the fragility of our environment and the importance of
its protection. Promoting environmental awareness is an easy way to become an environmental
steward and participate in creating a brighter future for our children.

What is Environmental Awareness?

To define environmental awareness we must first understand the environmentalist movement.
Environmentalism is an ideology that evokes the necessity and responsibility of humans to
respect, protect, and preserve the natural world from its anthropogenic (caused by humans)
afflictions.

Environmental awareness is an integral part of the movement’s success. By teaching our friends
and family that the physical environment is fragile and indispensable we can begin fixing the
problems that threaten it.

How to Promote Environmental Awareness

When learning about the environment’s declining health it is easy to feel discouraged, but what
keeps us fighting for a healthy world is the future of our children. They should not have to inherit
our environmental problems and in order to keep their future bright, spreading awareness is
imperative.

Before you can begin promoting environmental awareness in your own community you must
first make sure that you have a thorough understanding of environmental issues. Staying up to
date on environmental news and reading comprehensive books about environmental threats are
both great resources, but if you’re the type of person who prefers a more interactive approach,
attending environmental seminars is a great option.

Make a Difference
After you have become environmentally aware you can begin teaching those around you. The
symposium acts a catalyst for you to begin your role as an environmental steward and provides
online courses and other resources to keep you on track.

Environmental awareness proves important for several reasons; it fosters a sense of connection to the
natural world, promotes sustainable development and encourages conservation of irreplaceable natural
resources and vulnerable plant and animal species.

Awareness is the ability to directly know and perceive, to feel, or to be cognizant of events. More
broadly, it is the state of being conscious of something.
The goals of environmental education are:

 to foster clear awareness of, and concern about, economic, social, political, and
ecological interdependence in urban and rural areas;
 to provide every person with opportunities to acquire the knowledge, values, attitudes,
commitment, and skills needed to protect and improve the environment;
 to create new patterns of behavior of individuals, groups, and society as a whole towards
the environment.

The categories of environmental education objectives are:

 Awareness—to help social groups and individuals acquire an awareness and sensitivity to
the total environment and its allied problems.
 Knowledge—to help social groups and individuals gain a variety of experience in, and
acquire a basic understanding of, the environment and its associated problems.
 Attitudes—to help social groups and individuals acquire a set of values and feelings of
concern for the environment and the motivation for actively participating in
environmental improvement and protection.
 Skills—to help social groups and individuals acquire the skills for identifying and solving
environmental problems.
 Participation—to provide social groups and individuals with an opportunity to be actively
involved at all levels in working toward resolution of environmental problems.

The Philippines also suffers major human-caused environmental degradation aggravated by a high
annual population growth rate, including loss of agricultural lands, deforestation, soil erosion, air and
water pollution, improper disposal of solid and toxic wastes, loss of coral reefs, mismanagement and
abuse of coastal ...

The effects of global warming are the environmental and social changes caused (directly or indirectly) by
human emissions of greenhouse gases. There is a scientific consensus that climate change is occurring,
and that human activities are the primary driver.
Environmental degradation can be defined as a risk to which the world is exposed. It is termed as
pollution. Generally, the term pollution refers to contaminated air, water, soil, besides unclean and
unhygienic living areas. Such conditions cause harm to human health and damage to non-human natural
world. Pollution from natural sources are termed bio-genic pollution. One of the most common natural
pollutant is dust. Dust is the result of weathering by wind. It blows from areas with very little vegetation,
creating haze that reduces visibility.

Negative externalities such as loss of natural habitats by the expansion of agricultural land and
the associated impact on biodiversity, soil degradation such as erosion, depletion and pollution
of natural water resources and climatic changes are only a few examples of this problem
area.Mar 28, 2012

These impacts include compaction, loss of soil structure, nutrient degradation, and soil salinity. ... The
effects of soil erosion go beyond the loss of fertile land. It has led to increased pollution and
sedimentation in streams and rivers, clogging these waterways and causing declines in fish and other
species.

Nuclear Accidents
In addition to the waste produced by reactors under normal conditions, another major ecological
danger is an accidental release of radiation. ... In more severe cases, accidents with fuel or
control rods can damage reactor cores, potentially releasing radioactive materials.
Overpopulation is an undesirable condition where the number of existing human population exceeds
the carrying capacity of Earth. Overpopulation is caused by number of factors. Reduced mortality rate,
better medical facilities, depletion of precious resources are few of the causes which results in
overpopulation.

Types, causes, and effects of pollution. Air pollution is one of the most dangerous forms of
pollution. ... Soil pollution occurs when the presence of pollutants, contaminants, and toxic
chemicals in the soil is in high concentration that has negative effect on wildlife, plants, humans,
and ground water.Aug 20, 2017
Resource depletion is the consumption of a resource faster than it can be replenished. Natural
resources are commonly divided between renewable resources and non-renewable resources (see also
mineral resource classification).

Ozone depletion. Ozone depletion, gradual thinning of Earth's ozone layer in the upper atmosphere
caused by the release of chemical compounds containing gaseous chlorine or bromine from industry and
other human activities. The thinning is most pronounced in the polar regions, especially over Antarctica.
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