Environmental

Crisis and
Sustainable
Development
GROUP 8
 Learning
outcome
01 sDiscuss the origins and manifestation of global
crisis;
relate everyday encounters with pollution,global

02 warming, desertation, and many more others with a

larger picture of environmental degradation ;and

03
examine the policies and programs of
governments around the world that address
environmental crisis
Introductio
n
• If you live in metropolitan manila and travel to school
everyday, the moment you step out of your home ,
you are already exposed to the most serious problem
of human faces today.
• Waste are already indicative of some environmental
problems.
• In the city you live in, there is a dying river , an
increasingly poisonous sky , an enormous amount of
waste, and declining of life.
• It is the point that you recognize the ecological crisis
happening around you, and how the detorioration of
the environment has stabilized population and species
raising the specter of extinction for some and lesser
quality of life for the survivors and thier offspring.
THE WORLD’S
LEADING
ENVIRONMENTAL
• The converse energy future website
list the following environmental
PROBLEMS
challenges that the world face today.
1.The depredation caused by insdutrial
and transportion toxins and plastic in
the ground; the the defiling of the
sea, rivers, and water beds by oil
spills and acid rains; the dumping of
urban
2. Changewaste.
in global weather patterns
and the surge in ocean and land
temperature leading to a rise in sea
levels, plus the flooding of many
lowland areas across the world.
THE WORLD’S
LEADING
ENVIRONMENTAL
3. Overpopulation
PROBLEMS
4. The exhaustion of the world's
natural non-renewable resources
from oil reserves to minerals to
potable water
THE WORLD’S
LEADING
ENVIRONMENTAL
• The destruction of million-year-old
ecosystems and the loss of biodiversity
PROBLEMS
that have led to the extinction of
particular species and the decline in the
number of others.
• The destruction of oxygen and the
increase in carbon dioxide in the
atmosphere because of
deforestation.
• The depletion of ozone layer
protecting the planet from the
sun's deadly ultraviolet rays due
to chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) in
the atmosphere.
THE WORLD’S
LEADING
ENVIRONMENTAL
• Urban sprawls that continue to
expand as a city turns into
PROBLEMS
megalopolis, destroying farmlands,
• increasing
Pandemicstraffic gridlock.
and other threats to
public health arising from waste
mixing with drinking water, polluted
environments that become breeding
grounds for mosquitoes and disease
carrying rodents, and pollution.
• A radical alteration of food
systems because of genetic
modifications in food proc
THE WORLD’S
LEADING
ENVIRONMENTAL
• Deadly acid rain as a result of fossil
fuel combustion, toxic chemicals
PROBLEMS
from erupting volcanoes, and the
massive rotting vegetables filling
up garbage dumps or left on the
streets.
• Water pollution arising from
industrial and community waste
residues seeping into the
underground water tables,
rivers, and seas
 MAN-MADE
POLLOTION
• Human exacerbate other natural environmental
problems.
• In Saudi Arabia, sandstorms combined with
combustion exhaust from traffic and industrial
waste lead the World Health Organizations to
declare Riyadh as one of the most polluted cities in
the world. It is this " human contribution" that has
become an immediate cause of worry.
• Greenpeace India reported that in 2015, air
pollution in the country was its worst, country
aggravated by Indian government's inadequate
monitoring system.
• Furthermore, 94% of Nigeria's population is
exposed to air pollution that WHO warned as
reaching dangerous levels while Gaborne, the
capital of Botswana is the 7th most polluted city in
the world.
 MAN-MADE
POLLOTION
• Waste coming out of coal, copper, and gold mines flowing
out into the rivers and oceans is destroying sea life or
permeating the bodies of those which survived with
poison.
• Malanjkhand - biggest copper mine in India discharges
toxic wastes to bodies of water.

• China, the "tailings" from the operations of the Shanxi

Maangiao Ecological Mining Ltd., producing 12, 000 tons
of gold per year have caused pollution and safety
problems.
• Pollution in West Africa has affected "the
atmospheric circulation system that controls
everything from wind and temperature to rainfall
across huge swathes of the region."
 MAN-MADE
POLLOTION
• Asian monsoon, in turn, had become the transport of
polluted air into the stratosphere spreading pollution
in Asia.
• Aerosol is tagged the culprit in changing rainfall
patterns in Asia and the Atlantic Ocean.

• In 2013, as a result of climate change, uncontrolled

urban growth, and rapid industrialization, 28,000 of
these rivers had disappeared.

• People's health has been has severely

compromised. An archived article in the journal
Scientific American blamed the pollution for
"contributing to more than half a million
premature deaths each year at the cost of
hundreds of billion dollars.
 MAN-MADE
POLLOTION
• Waste coming out of coal, copper, and gold mines flowing
out into the rivers and oceans is destroying sea life or
permeating the bodies of those which survived with
poison.
• Malanjkhand - biggest copper mine in India discharges
toxic wastes to bodies of water.

• China, the "tailings" from the operations of the Shanxi

Maangiao Ecological Mining Ltd., producing 12, 000 tons
of gold per year have caused pollution and safety
problems.
• Pollution in West Africa has affected "the
atmospheric circulation system that controls
everything from wind and temperature to rainfall
across huge swathes of the region."
 MAN-MADE
POLLOTION
• Asian monsoon, in turn, had become the
transport of polluted air into the stratosphere
spreading pollution in Asia.
• Aerosol is tagged the culprit in changing rainfall
patterns in Asia and the Atlantic Ocean.
.
• In 2013, as a result of climate change, uncontrolled
urban growth, and rapid industrialization, 28,000 of
these rivers had disappeared.

• People's health has been has severely

compromised. An archived article in the journal
Scientific American blamed the pollution for
"contributing to more than half a million premature
deaths each year at the cost of hundreds of billion
dollars.
 MAN-MADE
POLLOTION
• It has been the poor who are most severely
affected by these environmental problems.
Their low income and poverty already put
them at a disadvantage by not having
resources to afford good health, to live in
• unpolluted
One of the areas, to urban
major of eat healthy foods,
pollution etc.
is that
the necessities that the poor has access to
are also the resources of the problem.
Example: transportation which uses diesel
fuel, is the largest contributors to
environmental problems
Motorbike worldwide.
- 75%-80% of the traffic in most
Asian cities. It emits more smoke, carbon
monoxide, hydrocarbons.
• These vehicles usually command a lower
price because affordable midle class.
Howevei, thest,sore hase four times the
toxic pollution as the busses.
 “CATCHIN
• Countries like China, India, and Indonesia are now in

G UP”
the midst of frenzied effort to achieve and sustain
economic growth to catch up with the West. In the
"desire to develop and improve the standard living of
the citizens, these countries will opt for the goals of
economic growth and cheap energy," which, in turn,
would "encourage waste, and inefficiency and also
fuel environmental
• These "extractive" economies, pollution.
however, are
"terminal" economies. Their resources, which will
be eventually depleted, are also sources of
pollution.
• If the United States lets its environment suffer to
achieve modernity and improve the lives of its people,
developing countries see no reason, therefore, why
they could not sacrifice the environment in the name of
progress.
CLIMATE
CHANGE
• Global warming is the result of billion of
tons of carbon dioxide (coming from • Glaciers are melting every year since
coal-burning power plants and 2002, with Antarctica losing 34 billion
transportation), various air pollutants, metric of ice. There is a coastal
and other gases accumulating in the flooding not only in the United States
atmosphere. These pollutants trap the eastern seaboard but also in the Gulf
sun's radiation causing the warming of of Mexico. Coral reefs in the Australian
earth's surface. great Barrier Reef are dying, and the
• The greenhouse effect is responsible for
production capacities of farms and
reoccurring heat waves and long
fisheries have been affected. Flooding
droughts in certain places, as well as for
has allowed more breeding grounds
heavier rainfall and devastating
for disease carriers like the Aedes
hurricanes and typhoons in others. In
aegypti mosquito and the cholera
the United States, the number of storms • Since human-made climate
bacteria.
had also gone up, with Hurricane change threatens the entire world,
Katrina (2005) and Hurricane Sandy it is possibly the greatest present
(2012) being the worst. risk to humankind.
 COMBATING GLOBAL
WARMING
• 1997, 192 countries signed Kyoto
Protocol to reduce greenhouse
gases, following the 1992 United • Paris Accord - the follow up treaty to the
nations Earth Summit where a Kyoto Protocol, negotiated by 195
Framework Convention for Climate countries in December of 2015. It seeks
Change was finalized. The United to limit the increase in the global
States - the biggest polluted in the average temperature based on targeted
world is not joining the effort of goals as recommended by scientists.
• Unlike Kyoto Protocol, which has
• AKyoto
2010 World Bank report thus
Protocol.
predetermined Carbon dioxide emission
concluded that the protocol only had
limits per country, the Paris Accord
a slight impact on reducing global provides more leeway for countries to
emissions, in part because of the decide on their natic
non-binding nature of the
agreement.
 COMBATING GLOBAL
WARMING
• Social movements, however, have
had better success working
together, with some pressure on
their governments to regulate
global warming.
• Local alliances between the state,
schools, and communities are
replicated at the national level, the
success becomes doubly significant.

• The imperative now is everyone to

set up these kinds of coalitions on a
global scale.