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Environment and Sustainability

December 6, 2010 Bonnyville Centralized High School. Environment and Sustainability. Setting our course…. Outcome Students will identify different viewpoints on resource development and land usage Students will evaluate the actions and policies devised to reduce human impact Objectives

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Environment and Sustainability

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  1. December 6, 2010 Bonnyville Centralized High School Environment and Sustainability

  2. Setting our course… • Outcome • Students will identify different viewpoints on resource development and land usage • Students will evaluate the actions and policies devised to reduce human impact • Objectives • Students will learn about resource development specific to the energy sector and forestries • Students will learn about agreements and legislations designed to address human impact

  3. Deforestation (continued) • While greenhouse emissions are an issue in the developed world, deforestation is more a problem in the developing world • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jq2UHiyYwLo • Compare the process of oil excavation to harvesting trees. What’s harder?

  4. Deforestation (continued) • How do you use trees? • Do you have a wood-burning stove at home? • Do you write notes on paper (or your desk) in school? • What’s underneath the vinyl siding of your house? • How about the chairs and table where you enjoy supper?

  5. Deforestation (concluded) • Is there a way to use less forested land? • Consider the main reasons for deforestation: • Globalization (era of imperialism in particular) • Population Growth and Overpopulation • Urbanization • Agricultural Land http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5jnJdnQPr8&feature=more_related

  6. Searching for Sustainability • There has been recognition that human actions leading towards progress can have environmental impacts • Approaches now the approaches used take into consideration both resources and environment • Approaches include both government legislation and agreements

  7. Development Agreements • Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) – example of an agreement made between governments with common interests • Control 78% of the world’s crude oil reserves • When these countries make decisions on production, they control demand and prices

  8. Fisheries • Strict conservation laws on fisheries have become commonplace • Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) – a distance off a shoreline where only the most adjacent country can fish • Subject to national laws within that EEZ • Problem: fish move freely in and out of an EEZ • All the quotas set by Canada did not mean anything outside the zone

  9. Fisheries (continued) • Turbot War (1995) • A Spanish trawler was seized just outside the Grand Banks fishing by Canadian Coast Guard • Three years earlier, the cod moratorium came into effect in Canada’s Grand Banks • Discovered that the Spanish were using nets that were against regulation

  10. International Agreements • Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) • Designed to discourage people from capturing endangered plants and animals for trading • Endangered species trafficking is ranked third biggest market in the black market • Questionable whether CITES has been successful because there is now an increase in poaching

  11. Kyoto Protocol • Aimed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and prevent further climate change • Canada is one of 150 countries to sign Kyoto • Expects more developed countries to achieve most of the reduction • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-zxxQQQlVA&feature=related • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF_anaVcCXg&feature=related

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