enviroment
the total planetary inheritance and the totality of all resources
functions of the enviroment
- supply of resources
- assimilates waste
- sustenance of life
- provides asthetic servces
renewable resources
those which can be used without the possibility of the resources becoming depleted or exhausted
non-renewable resources
those resources which get exhausted with extraction and use
carrying capacity of the enviroment
the resource extration is not above the rate of regenration of the resource and the waste generated are within the assimilating capacity of the enviroment
absorpitive capacity
the ability of the enviroment to absorb degration without causing enviromental damage
two principal cause of enviromental crisis
- rising population of the developing countries
- the affluent consumption and production standard of the developed country
opportunity cost of negative enviromental crises
- huge amount on teachnonolgy and research to explore new resources
- expenditure on health
- increased financial consumption for the goverment
two types of current enviroment challenges
- global warming
- ozone deplection
global warming
a gradual increase in the average temperature of the earth’s lower atmosphere
factors responsible for global warming
- burning of fossil fuels and petroleum products
- deforstation
- increased cattle production
long term harmful effects of global warming
- melting of polar ice
- increase in incidence of tropical diseases
- non frequent tropical strom
- distripution of dring water supplies
ozone depletion
phenomenon of reductions in the amount of ozone in the stratosphere
two dimensions of threat to india’s enviroment
- threat of poverty-induced enviromental degradation
- threat of popullation from affluence and a rapidly growing industrial sector
