| Environmental studies is a broad discipline that examines how the natural world works and how humans interact with the environment. This relationship will be valuable in virtually all future decision making and will help determine the quality of life for future generations. This sort of critical examination illuminates a number of serious problems for our species as well as for others and then discusses some attainable solutions. The discovery of our dependency on the health of natural communities provides the inspiration for intelligent innovations concerning how we get our physical needs met and how we relate toall the components of the natural world. |
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If all of the 6.5 billion
humans lived as we
do
in
the U.S., we
would
need at least
two more Earths
worth
of
natural resources. |
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