Environmental Science and Human Population Worksheet

Using the textbooks, the University Library, or other resources, answer each of the following questions in 100 to 200 words.

1. What would you include in a brief summary on the history of the modern environmental movement, from the 1960s to the present? The environmental movement in the modern day in the United States started to take off in the 1960s and 1970 and at first only focused on a few disasters and environmental issues. In today’s society environmentalism changed to become a huge movement. The environment now impacts everything from politics to the media, even to forms of art. It is no longer a singular movement, but now being spread worldwide into the American culture and population.

2. Explain the primary concern over exponential population growth. What promotes exponential population growth? What constrains exponential population growth?
The more people there are and the more resources we use will ultimately lead to the Earths collapse thus leaving us with a weak environment. Over the past few decades earth has grown a substantial amount and the more people that are on the earth the more frequently we have to use unnatural resources. Although the advancement of technology is a good thing in the long run the things that are used to invent the new technology, or even the hormones that they put into growing more vegetables is causing more harm than good to the environment. The lack of educating people on the different issues of the environment can seriously constrain exponential population growth.